Thread: Finally a Good Weather Window-To the Tops We Go.

Well the summer in Canterbury has been crap, more like wild Spring windy weather that has caused a couple of planned trips to be cancelled. Finally a few days off lined up with a likely weather forecast so my good hunting mate & I headed for the hills on Tues, a fairly stiff climb got us up to where I wanted to camp. An evening glass had us seeing a few hinds with fawns, they all came out just on dark, always nice to watch the little ones playing.

A fairly full moon ensured that we only saw one group out feeding in the morning, a hind, yearling & fawn, the way the wind drift was prevented us from putting a stalk on them as I was keen to take the yearling. It was a beautiful day & we ended up doing what the deer did, laying up for the hot part of the day, napping, cups of tea & solving the worlds problems.

That evening we set ourselves up in a good spot & just before dark our three friends appeared, a bit of a rush job but I finally managed to get a half decent rest in a matagouri bush with the R93 & 250yd shot secured us some meat.

For all the hunting my mate has done he hasn't actually shot a Chamios, he's shot "at"a couple but not connected so at 5am the next morning we were off to another catchment on the tops, a fairly steep 700m climb in the cool morning to get up to 1400m where I hoped some Cham might be, as we were nearing the top we started to see some fresh sign. As we crested the top I said to my mate lets pop over the other side & get off the skyline & find a good spot to start glassing, we had only walked about 20m when in the tussock directly in front of me I saw the top half of a chammy with its head down feeding! I ducked down, got my mate up & said there is one about 25m in front of us, luckily the wind was good & we crawled forward a touch, he had a Little bit of trouble spotting it as it was basically the same colour as the tussock, finally it moved a bit & he picked it up, we couldn't tell whether it was a buck or not but seeing as it was hopefully going to be his first the shot was taken & it was down, one mighty happy hunter, turned out it was a doe so after some photos & I skinned it & will get it tanned, had Cham back steak for dinner last night.

Very happy with my new stug stock for the Blaser, it's dropped 400gm off it.

Nicely done. Your mate will be stoked.
What does your blaser weigh now?

Nice going.

I see you had a couple of Speights before adding your photo Outdoorlad!

Originally Posted by Sauer

I see you had a couple of Speights before adding your photo Outdoorlad!

It's that bloody iPhone, keeps putting them upside down even when I rotate them. Talking of speights I did carry a couple of cans up.

Originally Posted by Shootm

Nicely done. Your mate will be stoked.
What does your blaser weigh now?

He sure was, it weighs 3.35kg with a Swaro Z5 3-18x44 on it so just under 7.5lbs, It will be going on more walkabout trips now. Stu is a magician figuring out how to do it.

Job well done, always nice to score your first of a species, plenty of meat in the end.

Nice going and that stock looks great.

the weather must have been a real change - seems to have tipped that chamois upside down

Got my skin back from the Tanner today, very happy.

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

Got my skin back from the Tanner today, very happy.

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Where did you get the skin done?

Originally Posted by Shearer

Where did you get the skin done?

Turners Tannery, Leeston