Thread: Whats your Roar 2024 plans, and goals?

Hey fella's just thought i would start a thread where you can post what your plans are and goals for the 24 Roar!

For myself im planning on 7 weeks camped off clement's road sika hunting bigs 8's on the menu, managed 6 weeks in 2021 thanks to @onva assistance with accommodation
when i was rained out of the forest and managed to get my first sika stag a nice 8pt, also a smaller 7pt on anzac day.
Managed 6 weeks in 2023 got a nice little 7 and afew meat animals and have it all on video about to be edited together before i head away for this roar.
Goals for this roar are like always a bigger and better 8pt stag and also to save the skins and tan them incamp, felt guilty last few roars leaving such beautiful
skins to just rot away so i have all the stuff needed to tan the skins

For this roar im coming more prepared have a bigger hot tent, last year got rained out and molded out, Got a 12v shower setup that uses hot water heated by
the fire from a 100L steel drum so lots for hot shower's, better stretcher setup, gas cookers, new domex sleeping bag, new sleeping mat, bivvy tent
, usb camp lights you name it been upgrading gear since last roar to make camp more liveable for such a long period. Going to be an awesome time
with afew forum members, and mates from the real world stopping in for a week or two trying for illusive sika stags

Will post trip reports and a video when i can get back to home turf of the trip
Hot Barrels 2024!

Pretty epic effort.
I'm heading down waioeka way at Easter then after sika at the end of April.
Middle of the month have family commitments this year.
Hoping to find anything going hard and coming in.

I take 2 weeks off every year for the roar, last year I walked between 90-95 km, this year I aim to break 100 km wandering the mountains

Oh to be young again. That sika camp sounds awesome.

Stay and and avoid getting shot as usual. I hunt for meat so have only done one roar when I had a ballot block.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Stay and and avoid getting shot as usual. I hunt for meat so have only done one roar when I had a ballot block.

i spent 20 years hunting for meat no trophy's to show for it, got diagnosed with MS 2017 so decided to spend a whole roar sika hunting while i can, not knowing if its the bad kind or not so bad ms

Not get killed by the countless inbreed morons that come out during that time of the year.

Luckily this season been reasonably lucky with ballot applications. So will head out.

I might try to nail one with the bow again this year. The 505 was a bit over the top last year.

My first fly in trip. 8 days in Marlborough high country then hopefully a few days in the kaimanawas when I get back.

I'll probably do a few local day hunts before Easter. Then avoid the bush to be honest and see if the late season is a improvement on the disastrous o
Fishing season we've had this season.

Heaps of rain down here and very high river levels for all wapiti hunters as a heads up.

My objective for the roar is the same as my objective for 2024:
- Shoot a deer with 222 Remington (*I did that in February)
- Shoot a deer with 22 Hornet
I'm going to be wintering in an uninsulated 6mx4m shack, off the grid, on farm land beside a river, pine plantation and native bush block. I've already spied nine deer one night whilst rabbiting and five the other night, so it shouldn't be a problem to whack one with the Hornet, just a matter of timing. They just come out and graze on the grass. Not very sporting or hardcore, but food is food.

Ill just shoot hinds and yearlings for the freezer.Leave the stags for any one else.

Hunting local, still on the mend from a couple of broken bones but I am mobile at least. I'll stick to well known areas this time around.

My plan is… avoid the Kaimais and any spot where the number of animals roaring on two legs is superior to the number of animals roaring on 4….

Originally Posted by Trout

Ill just shoot hinds and yearlings for the freezer.Leave the stags for any one else.

Thank you sir, but if you do see a decent stag can you shoot it for me