Thread: Deer in Strange Places.

Originally Posted by gmm

Not so much of a strange place but still was hard case to see.
I was in a block of the Clarance this roar and watched some hunters drive up to the Neighbours hut and transfer their kit into a side by side to set off for a hunt.
A Fallow spiker walked out of a patch of scrub 50 meters from them, watched them for a while and ducked down the riverbank. The spiker wandered along the riverbank, which was open grass, but out of view from the hut. When he got to a patch of scrub he would move up and watch the guys. He did this for about 20 minutes before wandering off into the scrub on the edge of the river.
Went south of Kaikoura at night and saw 3 fallow on the front lawn of a house down a side road 100 meters from the state highway, as I drove past, they just looked up and it was only when I stopped, they walked off.

I am convinced that Sika hinds follow you as you hunt through their territory. If you do anything unexpected like take your jacket of to shed some layers they will squeal. Had this happen two days in a row. They will also sneak past you in full view if you are looking the other way, keeping their eye on you all the time. Turn your head and they are gone.
GPM.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

I am convinced that Sika hinds follow you as you hunt through their territory. If you do anything unexpected like take your jacket of to shed some layers they will squeal. Had this happen two days in a row. They will also sneak past you in full view if you are looking the other way, keeping their eye on you all the time. Turn your head and they are gone.
GPM.

Saw something similar one time.
Somewhere in the Clements Rd location a mate and I stalked together trying to get onto roaring Sika stags. We got into a stag's patch but couldn't see him although he was close. My mate decided to carry on alone a bit further while I stayed put and watched. I could see my mate the whole time and he had gone about 60 or 70 yds when a young stag silently stepped out of thick growth and watched before folowing my mate for a short time. My mate was intensely looking ahead and had no idea. The stag never saw me. It was sactually quite comical and a pleasure to watch. Then the stag dissolved buck into the scrub and disappeared. We both had a good laugh when I recounted with my mate. We were both young then and still learning about Sika.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

I am convinced that Sika hinds follow you as you hunt through their territory. If you do anything unexpected like take your jacket of to shed some layers they will squeal. Had this happen two days in a row. They will also sneak past you in full view if you are looking the other way, keeping their eye on you all the time. Turn your head and they are gone.
GPM.

Yep, your right. I had a young sika stag I could not locate and twice I went through a small patch of thick scrub and both times when I got out into the open, he squealed at me. The third time I got almost to the edge, made a heap of noise walking out and backtracked sitting off to the side of where I had walked. The stag knew something was up but couldn't work it out, he was almost crawling keeping low as possible when he appeared 5 meters away. He saw me and froze, soon as I moved he was gone. That bloody cunning bugger was following me and I stalked that area thinking I was on to it, but goes to show he had the better of me.