I might as well put up my hunt pics and a bit of a story.... There seems to be the Nicest Kaweka theme happening.
Fly in was 2nd March, we went for an afternoon recce, spot the Sika
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It was bloody hot for the first 3 days, the main bush ridges were very dry underfoot, the ground sounded hollow underfoot and had shrunk away from the base of many canopy trees. Little sign was seen, so concentrated on the feed spots lower down on sunny sheltered faces.
Lots of animals seen and passed up, I got this fella grazing late morning, the Amax is in the lump of skin just ahead of the magazine, 351 yds. No meat was damaged, so it was a bloody hot retrieve of all legs, steak and head. The climb back up to the hut was a bitch in 28-30 deg.
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We put in some long days, out early and kipping on the hill through the quiet time of day, then glassing through till go home time.
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Last Thursday- Friday some rubbish weather same through, so had a hut morning then a cuppa,
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and we headed off separately. I saw Dave hunkered down glassing, having seen a couple on his way to the afternoon spot.
He did a bit of a video commentary thing, then took the best shot available on the yearling. The hind ran and stopped another 100 yds away, looking for the yearling. I got her when she offered a good shot. All butchered and back to the hut just on 8 pm, a good wee arvo hunt.
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I love my Twin Needles set-up, the kids bought a waist bag each for Xmas, hence the names.
On the last afternoon I headed up the SW boundary creek, I was looking for a nice spotted summer coat, though none were seen.
I glassed and snuck in this wee girl, I got to 35m of her when she had her head in feed. I whistled and mewed, and didn't move, she hung around for quite some time, the scarpered, alarm whistling as she went.
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I headed back to the hut with real spring in my step, I'd just had a neat 30 minutes fun watching her, a cool way to end a great week with an awesome hunting mate.....life is good.
B
