Thread: Newbies chasing Sika

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

That sounds like a good trip out to me. It can only get better aye?

It was an awesome trip, it was always about learning for us this trip. Finding our feet on public land chasing what are arguably the hardest deer to stalk. Can see why people froth over the Sika roar, it’s cemented it for us that’s for sure. That ear piercing single call and gentle mews will be burned into my memory forever. Roll on 2025!

Sounds like good numbers of deer where you were. Might be worth revisiting a couple of times before roar 2025 ( assuming you roar hunt there in 2025 ) to get better ideas of the lay of the land and where you can improve your approaches to roaring stags.

If you are using the latest Sika card that single call will be very intimidating if you are advancing on a stag... better use for it is to have your mate stay back calling while you attack... i recorded that call and the stag was very fired up and was spoiling for a fight, better to use one of the other cards with a not so aggressive call if you are moving in on them.

Originally Posted by Rosco

If you are using the latest Sika card that single call will be very intimidating if you are advancing on a stag... better use for it is to have your mate stay back calling while you attack... i recorded that call and the stag was very fired up and was spoiling for a fight, better to use one of the other cards with a not so aggressive call if you are moving in on them.

Rosco, yeah we were using the new card as well as number 2. It's a hell of a single call! When my buddy was closing in I was still replying with the one you recorded but had turned the volume down a bit so I wouldn't sound as close. Was worried about changing to the other card in case he thought he had 2 stags closing in for a fight hahaha. I was close enough to him to hear his mews so was imitating him with my voice as best I could which always got a reply.

What's the tactic when they are held up in a thick patch of pepper wood? Wait him out or get higher and try get around it? My buddy was so close he could hear him drawing breath to single call and stamping his feet. Even though we didn't see him we still feel we had a successful time given it was our first effort at bush stalking during the roar, learned a lot, when we had 4 going around us we looked at each other and both said what the F$%k do we do here hahaha very quickly we realised we had no idea what we were doing