Thread: Where Deer show up.

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

Back in the days of WINZ tossing money around willy-nilly a mate of mine worked for a city church group and was in charge of teaching teenagers life skills. He thought up the great idea of taking a group to the bush in search of these life skills, so off to Pureora Forest a van load of urban know-nothings went...while driving through the forest a deer jumped out in front of them and my mate slammed the hired van into it, he jumped out and got the damn thing in a headlock, all the group piled out and watched, my mate was yelling for someone to get a knife from his pack, eventually someone got it for him and he killed the animal...those kids were in awe at what he had done and so somewhere in the city are people who have an entirely different idea as to how deer are harvested in NZ and have probably gone on to tell their children of Ken, The Bible Bashing Bushman of Pureora.

I have a friend who malletted a yearling with an Estwing hammer (Caught it between a fenceline and his UTV)

Then took it back down the hill, Found one of those shiny helium balloons that you use for special occasions, tied it to a hoof,........... and presented it to a co worker for her birthday.

He's still alive, so it can't have gone too badly.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I have a friend who malletted a yearling with an Estwing hammer (Caught it between a fenceline and his UTV)

Then took it back down the hill, Found one of those shiny helium balloons that you use for special occasions, tied it to a hoof,........... and presented it to a co worker for her birthday.

He's still alive, so it can't have gone too badly.

On reflection, I think I have two stories mixed up.

My friend found a live fawn and presented it plus balloon to the co worker .

The Estwing malletted yearling was delivered to work HQ in front of a bus load of startled tourists.

Less than a km up the Hacket just past Te Rata road,someone got an easy Red this morning, big animal, shot on the track/road,paunch and ribs over the edge.Loopies are gunna grizzle about the smell.
I have been running the dog up there for a while but have not seen any sign.