Thread: First deer hunt. Ngaawapurua hut.

Great post and good luck on your next hunt

Thanks guys.
Stopping for longer periods is something that I will try next time. We would stop at a good looking area but only for about 15/20 minutes before slowly moving on. We stopped often but will try longer periods.
Cheers

Sitting and watching can be handy but the average punter is not patient enough to do it for long. For myself I only use ridges to get a bit of height and then I start sideling into the wind. The deer that you find on the ridge are, in the main, on tour from one place to another. If you are bush hunting then I would suggest that you will see more aniimals while sideling than walking the ridges.
When I first started hunting it was the blind leading the blind. I was the only one in the family that used a rifle of any sort and I used to walk the ridges looking for deer because, 1, it was easier and 2, I thought thats were the deer were and yes, you get the occassional one but you get a bloody lot more by sideling.