Thread: Whats your Roar 2024 plans, and goals?

Originally Posted by Lucky

Just getting out there is still the goal for me , stuffed my back again pre- Xmas , shooting stags is off the radar for me and possibly permanently …. Just being out there wandering around will be a step in the right direction .

You could chance your moniker?

Originally Posted by Gibo

Only goal this year is to get my daughter in the bush (safely) to hear them going off. Secretly I hope they are quiet all day and fire up at night when we are in the tent she will shit her pants

It is/can be pretty exciting regardless of your age.

Will be out pretty much every weekend from the second half of March til end of April. The biggest downside to my current job is that Feb-April is by far the busiest period of the year for my team, so little/minimal leave to be taken during the roar. I'll be hiking in every Friday night and out every Sunday. Would much rather hunt mid-week, but it is what it is so I just have to make the most of the weekends.

My priority has always been meat, so the first 5-6 years I hunted I never bothered chasing stags during the roar. Roared in my first, a relatively young 7pter, to 8m in 2020. I'll only shoot something now if it's a decently better head than my first. Passed up a much better one in 2021 so my younger brother could get his first roar stag and last year didn't see anything worth shooting.

Got 2 weeks off to chase stags and hopefully bang a couple over with some good mates

Taking the whole family into a haast roar block. Hoping to meet @Rees the tramper

We have a good chance as will be staying for longer than 3 days

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Mates 50th, we are doing 9 Days walking across the main divide - gonna have to a monster to warrant that carry....fingers crossed weather plays ball.

Shooting a stag would be ideal.
Always cautious about the once a year hunters who come out of the woodwork for the roar so hopefully can avoid them and find something to shoot

Originally Posted by Lucky

Just getting out there is still the goal for me , stuffed my back again pre- Xmas , shooting stags is off the radar for me and possibly permanently …. Just being out there wandering around will be a step in the right direction .

I can relate to you on that one. I am in exactly the same boat.I am about 90% now but still haven't tries any big hills or carrying much of a load.

Will take the usual 2 weeks. One in the canterbury high country and one in some South Westland bush. 5th year in a row missing out on a Haast/Wanaka block.

Still hunt the open blocks down there each year and see more deer than we probably would inside a block but jeez it's busy down there compared to Spring/Summer. We could go a week in a row over summer without seeing anyone. During the roar, I'd be lucky to see a flat without a tent on it once the weather clears. The beauty of staying down for a week means we can usually work around these fella's, hunt the less popular areas and still find plenty to keep us interested.

[QUOTE=Shearer;1550309]I can relate to you on that one. I am in exactly the same boat.I am about 90% now but still haven't tries any big hills or carrying much of a load.[/QUOTE

Yeah it's the weight thing for me now, just take it easy , if there's any advice I can give is save your back people , you only got 1 and when its stuffed it really sucks , if its too heavy leave some meat behind .

If I go out in the roar n hear something....it'd be a first...

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Just getting out somewhere is my goal, will have plenty of time off but a health setback means fitness and funds will be zero.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Just getting out somewhere is my goal, will have plenty of time off but a health setback means fitness and funds will be zero.

Heres to a speedy recovery bro

I’ll be chasing Te Urewera reds late March then after a sika stag early April. Shame Kiko rd looks like it will still be closed.

Nelson tops for 10 days with the boys late march, then home for a week to recoup then the Kaimanawas for 8 days with another mate from Taupo.

I've had some decent success with getting regular meat animals (more than me and the family can eat in a year - we give quite a bit away) but not great results with stags yet.

Would love to see a mature red or sika and have an oppurtunity at it (don't care as much about points etc).

Otherwise for the tops mission - goal is to glass up and explore as many valleys and basins (without rushing past country) and explore that awesome area, get some cool photos, footage etc, not get shot, not cut anyone elses lunch up there while hunting (tricky at that time of the year)