Thread: What was i thinking...still, i get a result

Hi, after my guiding efforts that were reasonable successful on the weekend (pity he missed) i was off again on another one day roar mission.
Now , im not sure what i was thinking but decided as it was during the week i hunt a well known hunting DOC block and go way out the back for a all day hunt.

Now i know this would of had hunters in there on the weekend but i had faith i could track something down.
I had another couple of plans if it looked like someone was out there but thought i be right.

Arrived early to the 4wd track to a perfect morning for roaring stags.
Overcast, was even a light drizzle few kms down the road and it looked all good until i got to the end of the road.

The place was over run with hunters! Six 4x4 were there, all hunters from the looks and they all been there from the weekend and still here.
No doubt where i was going to go there be at least 2 groups out there and a couple of creek systems that are ok it could be likely hunters are in there as well.

Bugger, but it is the roar i suppose(never actually hunted the roar here).
What to do, so in the end i decided i hunt a creek that normally i see no marks of people and travel miles out the back.

Well, hunting up there first thing i noticed it was very humid, i was cooking, then the second thing was boot marks everywhere.
Stuff this , what was i thinking.....this wasnt worth the effort or the risk of other people out there so change of plans....the plan i should of started with in the first place.


i know this area quite well, shot a few animals here and i know ive just driven past animals, and of cause everyone else does as well so why not just go back near the start
and do what i do best, find a easy animal.

So i walked back to the truck, no roaringto be heard and drove back down the road to where i know theres going to be something and prob no one has hunted.

Get out of the 4x4, start up into the bush, i go about 3 mins and decided i give a roar and bugger me, straight away about 100-150m up a stag roars back!!












Couldnt believe my luck but at the same time didnt surprise me, ive shot stags in here before at different times.
I give another roar and he replys again but still in the same place.

i wait a little and give another moan and now nothing, hes shut up and doesnt make another sound. Normally if this happens its one of 3 things.
1 hes smelt me and is gone but i doubt that
2 hes a young animal and doesnt want a fight
Or 3 hes gone hinds and will stay quiet or slowly move out.
So i knew he was on the ridge im on not far up so hes likely to still be there and i just go up and stalk him and should see him if it all works out.

So i creep up the ridge which is ok for stalking but its dry and noisy and i have to have my wits about me.
i have to get over a huge log and when i do i look up and there he is, about 70m above me.
Unfortunately hes seen me as well and he wasnt sticking around and was off...bugger. It was ok thou, he was a young animal like i suspected, maybe a 6 pointer and
im pretty sure he might be the 6 pointer i saw near here in velvet a while ago so wasnt too worried about him disappearing.


So i climbed higher and decided i head all the way to the top which is abit of a mission to see if i can find another.
Soon come across a used wallow which was prob used by the stag i just saw.
















Near the top which is pretty rugged country i see some more stag marks but no replys to my roars apart from a distance stag miles away.

So i head down another steep ridge and get into the deer feed zone and see some sign then i come across dead freash marks of a hind.

i follow theres marks for 5 mins and know the chances of coming across a animal is pretty high, im in the perfect zone for a deer.
Sure enough, as i pop over a little hump down below me is a hind bedded up.
shes seen me and has her head turned and looking at me but doesnt get up.

Where theres a hind there could be a stag, so the 308 (yes, the 243 took a rest) was all ready to go and i searched around for a stag or any other animals but it appeared she was by herself.

She looked in good nick, looked a nice meat animal and as was on the way out and in a place hunters everywhere i thought i take her
and BOOM a 165gr Fed Fusion bowled her where she sat.

No stag or other animal took off so was happy that she was by herself now to bone her out and get out of here.















































So after a boning job, made my way back to the truck, was a pretty good day. Had another stag roaring and saw it, something didnt really want to shoot anyway and secured a nice meat
animal in a well hunted spot.
Hunting knowledge of the area and one of my main secret weapons....you drive past more animals than you can image and you dont need to go miles to get one.




Cheers