Thread: Mangamuka hut expedition.

This weekend @TheJanitar and I decided it would be good to go for a weekend hunt in the kaimai's so I could have have a go at my first deer.

We woke up at 2:30am for the drive down to the road end and after a Mc Donalds run in preparation for the steep climb we set off on what was to end up being a puffy (read unfit) 12 kilometers hahah.



With the sun rising we were hoping to spook a deer on the tracks but we saw nothing.



None the less we soldiered on until we reached the hut.







Once we settled in and I found the mattress ' (thank god, wood isn't comfortable)

We were off for a hunt.

Eventually we found a clearing and staked it out until it was dark. Cold, hungry and tired we walked into the clearing (first mistake) and promptly spooked what we thought was an antler less stag which had been hiding behind a tree the whole time!

We went back to the hut for some tinned chicken sandwiches and went to sleep ready for an early start the next morning.



We sat just off the clearing for what felt like a while and saw nothing. So we went off to unsuccessfully find the mythical places the hut book describes.

Eventually we found our way back and relaxed before we set off home.






For us new hunters it was a success to see a deer so soon we'll have one bowled over by the 2 308's.