Thread: Caples Capers (Photo Heavy)

Originally Posted by JoshC

Mint spot huh. We had first period a couple years ago and had deer sleeping on the hut clearing every night. I think I might have a photo of a deer standing around the same place as the one in your fourth photo!

Saw a few reds roaring on the way in, and a couple more up Kay Creek. Also saw some chamois up Kay Creek, one I chased for a day but he got the better of me.

Interesting walking in and out with a large number of trampers around. Most were really good and foreigners were genuinely interested in our hunting adventures. We got rarked up by a couple of old boy trampers (think they were gay vegans) when we told them we'd only shot one deer for meat. Apparently hunters only have ourselves to blame for cullers being sent into cull deer (long time since this happned?) and 1080 being dropped to control numbers. And we are just whinging bastards who want all the access in the world to good hunting areas, but don't shoot the deer that are there, so basically are the cause of the deer problem in NZ, so we should be booted out of the backcountry for not "doing our job". I asked him why he thought trampers had more rights to the back country than us, sarcastically told him he was probably right about not shooting enough deer, then asked if he wanted some venison back steaks so I didn't have to carry them out of the valley and he told me to get F'd! Hahaha. F'n weirdos.

Funny as.
Would have been funny to share a hut with them just to rark them up.