Earlier in the week I had made the call to let Rusky go down to the kaimais by himself as I had a tonne of work to do over the weekend. But what can I say, Friday afternoon rolled around and the devil on my shoulder started to talk a little louder. Up at 3.30am the next day :wtfsmilie: and out the door had me and Rusky on the hill to catch the first light of dawn through the canopy. Rusky was going back to a spot he knew had a few wallows in the hope of getting a stag and I was off to a new area with the hope of putting some meat in the freezer. Things were going well to begin with as I stalked through some areas of good sign and the wind was playing its part. I wasn't hearing any roars, but I decided to give one when I came across a scrape but I got not reply. I gave a couple more throughout the day but nothing much was happening so I stuck to my usual stalking game. We had agreed to meet back at a track junction by 2 so when 12.30 rolled round I took a new bearing back to the track. I stumbled a bit up and out of a creek and looked down to find some quite fresh sign. I did a quick scan about with my eyes and spotted an odd looking thing through a gap in the bush. The first thing I made out were the ears then I realised it was a hind looking straight at me! Still as a tree she was, nearly fooled me. Up with the rifle, crosshairs on the neck, BANG, she disappears and I hear a deer crash off to the right. So I now I'm thinking "did I miss or was that another deer?", but I walked over to where she was standing and look what I found :thumbsup:
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Next stop, Kaimanawas to chase those Jap stags :yuush:
