Heading down to Whirinaki Forest Park for 3 days were staying at waione flats should be there in a couple hours has anyone got any ideas on how I should hunt there and that sorta thing. Cheers
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Heading down to Whirinaki Forest Park for 3 days were staying at waione flats should be there in a couple hours has anyone got any ideas on how I should hunt there and that sorta thing. Cheers
Waione Flats sits between RD 88 and Rd 87 which run back into the native. Both these roads will give you walking access at least a fair way back of the main drag. There are numerous clearing throughout but make sure you have a compass or GPS as it can get a wee bit tricky in places. RD 87 goes in just past Waione Flats opposite the Old Army camp, Rd 88 goes in before you drop down to Waione maybe a couple of km's before on your left coming in from Minginui. Shot a quite a few deer throughout these areas over the years but haven't been in there for a while. Lots of other tracks to poke around on as well. Good luck post up your trip when back.
jeez Anthony you are close to Rushy's roost down there. I could have given you the good oil if I'd known earlier. There are both deer and pig down there.
Forgot to mention that RD 87 joins onto RD 88 several kms in.
Was there today, 1080 everywhere- still on the ground.
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When did the drop happen? I thought it was months ago? Not enough rain to break it down maybe?
pick it up and post it backQuote:
Originally Posted by Danny
probably not a good ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by 40mm
How did you get on @anthony ?
That’s what I figured also. 19.09.17.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chur Bay
Just regained cell service. So day one got our camp which was more close to the army camp. got the quad of the back of the camper and got the fire lit then I went for a quick look up some tracks before dark with the 7mm08 nothing not evin any tracks just only sine I saw was the doc signs saying they dropped 1080 4 months ago which is allways a downer any what on the way back from camp I smoked a couple rabbits for tea. Second day we decided to go way back in to the bush to a little back country hut that is a pretty well kept secret around there. Any way it ended up taking us (me and a 70 year old bush hunter (Doug) ) about 9 and a half hours to get there becouse of all the wind fall getting in our way not to mention the amount of noise it makes trying to get through it spooking all the deer. Closer to the hut the deer sine became more prominent, this was a definite moral booster for us after our journey when we got there the time had reached 5:30 and there was no way we would make it back to camp so we had to spend the night there with no sleeping bags or any food. Doug stayed at the hut that evening to get a bit of a rest so I took the gps and my rifle for a look around the place for a deer may be only ended up following some stag prints for about 300 meters then it got a bit dark so I went back to camp as we didn’t bring our head torches so I got back to camp and had a horrible night sleep. Day 3 woke up and frozen wrapped up in a survival blanket with was not nice. Anyway we headed off and found heaps of sine so the 1080 definitely hadent taken them all ! We got back to camp in about 7 hours as wen decided to follow some streams and rivers. Back at camp Doug showed me a spot on the gps we’re the army had done some training and built some strange structures he said that every time he had been there he had seen a deer or 2 do I took the bike up the road about a k and walked in down a very very run down trail and got on to something straight away I could evin smell it so I stalked it for a couple hundred meters then I heard a bark and then a another and another but couldn’t see any thing then heard the deers hooves trampling away. gurrrrr so yet another trip empty coming home handed. As for the place I thought it was awesome but so easy to get lost the country is real steep and lots of creeks and ridges but the deer sign, tracks and stag rubbings are thick further in the bush plenty of fresh shit aswell just impassable to be quiet with all the wind fall shit in your way. Cheers im definitely not a author so sorry about the spelling and thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
Thanks for the update.
It took me a while to get one two and a half years hunting the Kaimais back in the 90s.
Keep at it. You will get there.
Good to see you had a survival blanket on you.
Maybe next time a few energy bars.
Spelling is not my strength either.
Sounds as if you were onto them, that hut you stayed at was it Bob Collins one back in off the end of South Rd? Used to meat hunt that country east of there back in the mid 70's great country and lots of deer back then. Still sounds not to bad at the moment, keep at it and you will be successful soon enough.
Yea mate bobs hut some one took the pen for the hut book so I had to write my name with a vividQuote:
Originally Posted by Mooseman
Never been to the hut myself but know about where it is, our old stamping ground was in the country to the east of the hut in the Te Tehi stream. Haven't been in there in a few years and I think the old track in will be a nightmare after the snow damage from last year. Getting a bit old to lug a big pack full of meat out of there now but we shot a lot of deer in there over the years.
If the bush is very thick then find a spot with good visibility and sign and then sit on yah butt and wait. Can skmetines be quite successful
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Yea the track is non existent aye like there are some parts see it might have been but really only like 20 meters of track then it would disappearQuote:
Originally Posted by Mooseman
Nice read mate, I was in there on Sunday also, the Te Tehi, Plateau, Waipunga and Pukeroa are favourites of mine.
Keep up the work just please take care, those areas have taken some tough guys over the years.
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Good stuff Anthony.
Well done keep at it you didn't come home empty handed you bought knowledge home with you
@anthony you might want to consider carrying a bit more food a puffer jacket matches and a light fly tarp.
Just in case ya never know.....you could have shot one right on dark and had to spend another night out.
You might need to get a new survival blanket. If there anything like the old ones you can forget about repacking it unless your good at origami. :thumbsup:
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Quick overnight hunt into the Matakuhia Valley I had intentions of hunting in via the Opureke Track but after a reece decided too much windfall to attempt with it with a pack on, so bail out option 2 was the Upper Matakukia Hut,
Very little sign to be sign, be it pig or deer.
I put in a good evening hunt threw the day pack on and hunted at least 1 1/2 hours past the hut hoping to bump something at last light no cigar. In the morning I left at first light and hunted out in the rain all for no reward. So it ended up being a good leg stretcher climbing back out up the saddle which is always a bonus on the fitness front.
Track in good condition with an abundance of sting nettle hence I took no dog on with me this trip
Just got back from piropiro same seen fuk all sighn but was good to get out and have a look nice camp ground tho
was it busy i usually wait till straight after the school holidays are done.Quote:
Originally Posted by northdude
No probably about 5 others
good effort mate. sounds like youre in the same boat as @Russian 22.
should go out for a hunt together some time.
plus a good night to be had by all at the waterfall, what was that song mate that was on repeat, (I'm in love with the coco) @AndrewH had the sound track I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
did you look up totara stream by any chance. was learning the area when I lived in te Kuiti been back once since then got bloody close to sealing the dealQuote:
Originally Posted by northdude
It was my first time in that area I'm going to check there next time
about 2and 1/2 km up from the capark on the left of the track theres a good north facing campsite to flycamp away from the crowds and good hunting once your up there . last time i was up there the track was so washed out you would struggle to get a quad up there.....which is a good thing means less people going up thereQuote:
Originally Posted by northdude
Have been in there 3 times, only saw one deer and MISSED the dam thing :XD: , also a few goats around and heaps of rabbits, if I ever go again will pack in the air rifle. To many A T V`S , uts , and Swedish bikers, definitely be a fly camp way up in the bush via the Katamaringi track.
Maybe its really washed out now there's a sighn saying the roads closed nowQuote:
Originally Posted by scotty
yea nah the signs been up for a while since before mid october ....its still walkable.....cant see DOC fixing it anytime soon or ever but thats probably a good thing means only the keen people go up there
Hey Anthony, how is the road in there, tried to have look last time I was down there with my focus but a tree across the road. In on main road then onto south road I think, now have a 4x4 and if you got in there with a camper should be ok for my caravan, have never been in there but would like to have look.
Ok, Have checked out my Mitsi and I can sleep in the back with the seats folded up, so will base camp at okahu and car fly camp up south road just to have look in there. Coming into Piropiro flats, as you past the farm on the right just at end have seen some goats around there.
Mate the road is washed out like fuck we lost a few coffe cups and beers on the road but should be alright in a 4x4 the guy Doug I went with was one of the big daddy’s in the West Auckland 4x4 club so he wasint faised hahah nah I wouldn’t take a camper but you’ll be fine in a 4x4Quote:
Originally Posted by homebrew.357
