Thread: Month of a lifetime in Taupo roar hunting - Trip Report

great trip report mate I know what it's like when you shoot a trophy Sika and can,t find it happened to me I was hunting with a mate we were stalking up a ridge covered in head high pepperwood and I needed a dump so told my mate I would catch at the top of the ridge.so there I was pants down grunting away when I sore an 8 point head sticking out above the pepperwood watching my mate as it moved down the ridge towards me and it stopped about 30 or 40m away from me broadside on and didn,t know I was there I put my scope crosshairs on his neck and then thought no shoot it in the crease just behind it front shoulder tobe safe boom stag down so put my rifle down to pull my pants that were still around my ankles and bugger me he got up and bolted down the hill through waist-high crown fern gully but sounded like he expired about 120 or 150m away {FIRST STUFFUP} I didn,t mark the spot by hanging something like toilet paper up high or log a GPS mark where I was standing because it was pretty thick waist-high undergrowth crown fern gully he ran into and ended up fucking it right upto cut the story short never found it.