Carry overnight camping gear and hunt evening,camp ,carry on hunting next morning.
Liked On: 11-03-2025, 07:23 PM
When hunting as a pair with a reliable/safe partner, we would often hunt parallel just within eyesight usually following a bearing. It allows you to put eyes on more area and in some occasions pushes...
Liked On: 11-03-2025, 07:22 PM
My gps is covered in marks, I'll usually just try and do a circuit that covers a few off
Liked On: 10-03-2025, 08:42 PM
Bumped 2 just off the track this morning. Probably 20m, wasn't expecting to see them there. They are where you find them up there. I just find a game trail and follow it. Works pretty well for me. As...
Liked On: 10-03-2025, 05:07 PM
With that area the deer are so trained up for people it's quite crazy. I've been standing stationary as a tramping group goes through yapping their heads off (moved off trail to let them go through)...
Liked On: 09-03-2025, 10:06 PM
It is so dry up there at the moment that you really want to target wet gully and streams. Move to newly undiscovered spots for you. That is another way of learning the lay of the land and find deer...
Liked On: 09-03-2025, 10:05 PM
Use your ears, always heard them before spotting them in there. The ones I saw before hearing them all disappeared rather fast
Liked On: 09-03-2025, 10:05 PM
Stop looking at the ground once you find sign, each time you look up/down you are refocusing your eyes to different light conditions....all sign is historical, the foot prints you want are the ones...
Liked On: 09-03-2025, 10:05 PM
you are hunting what is likely one of the toughest blocks to hunt in North Island --wind yes get that one right - time of day - early morning late evening hot times - midday they will likely be lying...
Liked On: 09-03-2025, 06:52 PM
They usually spot you first. Its thick in there
Liked On: 09-03-2025, 05:58 PM
well said mate -- we flew a lot of crap out when I was in Te Urewera -- the tuhoe land down the Whakatane was especially bad - a lot probably still there we did not touch anything on their land -...
Liked On: 30-12-2024, 10:39 AM
While it riles me when I come across a messy hunter camp, be it a possum deer or pig hunter camp, one has to remember that hunters have been building these camps for as long as we’ve been hunting in...
Liked On: 30-12-2024, 10:39 AM
DOC regard them as taboo. Have heard sometimes they send teams in to dismantle a few that have sprung up but I don't think their budgets cover more frequent missions so they might not be winning the...
Liked On: 29-12-2024, 11:54 PM
I think it's selfish
Liked On: 29-12-2024, 11:53 PM
This time of year if it rains i go for a hunt, less snap crackle and pop when everythings wet. For me rain in summer is a reason to go hunting, not a reason to head home. For close bush hunting a...
Liked On: 22-12-2024, 10:19 AM