Thread: a wee story from scribe/The Devil Looks After His Own

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

you mean i am rough?

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nah, there just seems to be more fish in your freezer at the moment than mine

well I do seem to be hard on the gear so i must be doing something right

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Makes sense to me.
The amount of sign in the bush from summer autumn was incredible!

Other than that trip haven't been hunting for a while, scored a dingy so trying to be a fisherman

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Sika don't much like the cold. You see 2 or three in their winter coats standing in a little patch of sun with their quills sticking out like hedgehogs. They are great sun hunters in the winter, look for the first place in the valley that the sun touches on a frosty and there will be a couple of sika standing in it. They don't like the valley bottoms much in the winter too cold and shady.

In spring they move up to the tussock and stay in that vicinity but storms will drive them lower. March is the time we used to see the greatest number of sika. When we were into live capture their wasn't really a market for Japs so they were pretty well ignored by most operators and they tended to ignore the Helicopters providing you never came to close.
From about the 5th March through to the end you would see jap stags marching around the tussock in mobs of up to eight. They are restless and nearly always on the move sniffing the ground where the hinds have been pissing.
We used to see some of the best trophy stags in NZ during this month. I would never take a trophy out of the helicopter It didn't seem right to me.

Hi Scribe, newbie hunter here and i havent shot a jap yet, seen a few, but too clever for me!!!!.......big thanks for the advice you have given out, will defo give it a try, big thanks!!!

Originally Posted by Graeme Sturgeon

Hi Folks, Thanks for all the kind remarks above .
I have had an eighteen month holiday from the forum and NO it wasn't compulsory... I promised mucko if he put this story up I would come back and contribute if I can. My attention actually was caught by the Winter Story Competition and as I had just put "The Devil Looks After His Own" in the last Deer Cullers Magazine I thought it might suit in the Winter Story Competition.
It didn't make it into the competition, but never mind. It was a damned good effort from the seven who did enter and congratulations to the winner.

Getting back on here was an effort, more like an attemted resurrection. My account must have still been working as I received notifications that someone was trying to use it. So the old Scribe is done for and his password is lost.

I am unfamiliar with the forum now and I hope that this 'Reply To Thread' will work. Some of the members that posted regularly a while back seemed to have faded into the ether. The likes of 'dougie' I miss them and I hope they havn't gone for good.

Scribe

Graeme I'm sure if you wanted your old forum handle back the admins could sort it.

Hi Scouser, I was never culling in areas that held the big numbers of sika. Some of the experts like Dick Hart seemed to be switched onto sika and had no trouble scoring big tallys. Dick was a great traveller. My advice for what its worth is to try to sound like a deer. They glide through the bush but they still make a certain amount of noise. Sometimes when doing a bit of guiding you would be in a position to watch the animal being stalked. As long as the animals ears told it exactly where the intruder was it would hold until it had a sighting. If the intruder stopped the animal would become alarmed and break shortly after that because it could no longer be certain where the danger lay and one of its main defence systems had gone out.

Deer are very seldom on their own, so even though the deer you see may be stationary there is nearly always another moving just out of sight. So I believe the deer you meet, may in a normal day meet 5 other small groups of deer whose sound is a low volume constant hum of noise so that is what they are expecting.

It is difficult to explain these thoughts really... sit and listen works... but for us distance travelled/more deer.

Welcome back Graeme (scribe) we missed having ya around

I know the guy that does the work in Taihape. Does good work on reds too.

Royal 12 pointer

Originally Posted by Timmay

I know the guy that does the work in Taihape. Does good work on reds too.

Royal 12 pointer


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That's a good head Timmay and the mount looks good. I wish I could see the top right tine of the three. Though its shadow tells us its good I cant quite get the idea of its position. Unless it is the descendent of farm stock it didn't come from around Taupo. It doesn't look like a Kaimanawa Red. Nor a Hauhangaroa red they tend to have reasonable Timber but less spread. If I was asked to pick a place that has similar stock when we were into live capture I would say East Coast Gisborne area, or the Wairarapa.

Though again farm genetics are changing our herds everywhere and from a trophy point of view for the better.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Good yarn scribe. That happens sometimes when you use a "poo poo free" on deer.

Thanks 7mm, How are you? Are you trying to take the piss. It happens with all calibre's. I wouldn't mind a dollar for every hour I have spent on my knees looking for blood spots after a .270, 308, 3006, 303 bomb up. Despite all this talk I can only remember loosing about one animal a month.

Guys with the bigger calibres seemed to be unable or unwilling to take seriously enough bullet placement and in my opinion suffered higher losses. When all has been said and done a deer cant be any more dead than dead. A bullet through the engine room delivers that, a gut shot is a gut shot by any calibre.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Graeme I'm sure if you wanted your old forum handle back the admins could sort it.

Gidday Gibo, I would mind Scribe back he wasn't a bad buggar I don't think . I am not so keen on this fella though.

As I say I tried to slide back into my old skin but there seemed to be an obstacle to that. I don't pretend to know how these things work at all.
I seem to have membership still as my name is still on the list. I must have some sort of an account as I got emails say someone was trying to access my account. I sent an email to admin say that was me, waited a couple of days and reregistered.

I wanted in like I say because I like things like the winter story competition and I have many stories. I had intended to get this one into the competition and I told 'mucko" if he put it up I would climb back on board. But it was not as easy as that.

Scribe

@Spanners, is there a way of getting scribes account sorted?

Will look at tonight

Originally Posted by Spanners

Will look at tonight

Thanks 'Spanners'

HNTMAD@ Can I put this story in your 'Competition Time'.

I originally posted it on here hoping it could go into the Winter Story Competition. But for one reason or another it never made it into that.

So, as it has not been in a story competition yet I would like to put it up against the other entries.

That is such a nice Knife and Pouch I am gonna go balls to the wall on this.