Thread: Ruahine fly-in: The good and the bad of helicopters for hunters

Awesome write up.
Thanks for sharing.
Was it a private hut or doc hut you went into. Pity about the blue bugger.

Probably one of Jamie Moore's boys local up the Valley, old poacher from back in the days lots of story's about his escapades

Awesome write up and great end to the trip, Shame about the Chopper. Helps to add bush stalking to your skill set for times like that

Hamish

Originally Posted by i41do2

Awesome write up.
Thanks for sharing.
Was it a private hut or doc hut you went into. Pity about the blue bugger.

Yeah was a doc hut, but it was one of the ones they were going to pull out in 2012, but a local Tramping club put their hand up to take over the ongoing maintenance of it. I must say it was a nice tidy very well maintained hut, but then again its so far away that it wouldnt get the shitheads in there damaging it either.

Originally Posted by HNTMAD

Awesome write up and great end to the trip, Shame about the Chopper. Helps to add bush stalking to your skill set for times like that

Hamish

Yes it most certainly does, i dont mind a bit of bush stalking, actually quite enjoy it, my first few years of hunting were basically solely bush stalking before getting into a bit of wait and watch longer range stuff more recently.

Cool
Good to see it's getting used. I'm hoping to get into the ruahines over Christmas if the wife allows a night away
Won't be going that far in though.
Is the blue heli breaking the law doing that? What are they allowed to do, can you report it?

Good on you mate

I would be making a few phone calls especially if he keeped coming back knowing you where in there.

Cheers for the write up and good work on the stag

Good on ya @GWH

Loved the write up and the photos.

You have an awesome hunting mates there too.

Cheers
Pete

It's an awesome place alright. Shame about the little R22, they sure can ruin your day!

Great write up and awesome pictures. Thanks for that.

Nice spot in there, me and a mate fitted the meat safe for DOC last year, they flew it in with us the then we walked out over the tops, we christed it on that trip too, but good to see its getting some use.

Originally Posted by Blaser

Nice spot in there, me and a mate fitted the meat safe for DOC last year, they flew it in with us the then we walked out over the tops, we christed it on that trip too, but good to see its getting some use.

Oh nice! It doesn't look like its had much use, id almost say the blood you dripped in it would bloody near be the last before mine ;-) The door has warped or dropped slightly making it quite hard to get the bolts slid across and in, but a bit of persuasion gets it sorted.

Originally Posted by P38

Good on ya @GWH

Loved the write up and the photos.

You have an awesome hunting mates there too.

Cheers
Pete

Cheers, yeah they are both bloody good buggers eh.

Originally Posted by craigc

It's an awesome place alright. Shame about the little R22, they sure can ruin your day!

Great write up and awesome pictures. Thanks for that.

Thanks Craig, a lot of you guys set the bar pretty high when it comes to trip reports and photos ;-)

I could be wrong but that valley is a WARO area and he is allowed to be there until the end of Nov. He shouldn't be there from 1st December until 31st April.
Nice spot in there.

Originally Posted by Shootm

I could be wrong but that valley is a WARO area and he is allowed to be there until the end of Nov. He shouldn't be there from 1st December until 31st April.
Nice spot in there.

I think you're right Ross, well those photos were taken Dec 1st

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Originally Posted by GWH

I think you're right Ross, well those photos were taken Dec 1st

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That's pretty shit as he's had 7months to work it over.

What an awesome trip and country.