Thread: Te U Biv and back

me and a mate went for a 4 day adventure up in the Ureweras, walked in Friday & out Monday Arvo. Nice country to hunt in some really nice creaks and terraces but boy if you struck it wrong it sure turned to crap quickly . Restored my faith in me fitness and ability to walk a long way / day.

The walk in took 5 and a half hours with a 45min stop to dress out the hind Dylan shot in the creak bed, we made it to Te U biv (a nice hut) just on dark Friday night.


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Te U Biv

Saturday woke to rain which just got heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier – to say we where wet would have been and understatement, we left a dawn and got back to the hut wet to the core around 2.30pm – no deer , lit the fire and had a feed, followed by a nanna nap for a few hours while we dried out, the evening hunt drew nothing, but we finished a grim day with a stunning meal of mash spud, surprise peas, onions, gravy and venison back steaks………yummmmayyyyyyyyyyyy





Dinner for kings

Sunday was a fine day up again at dawn and we dropped over a saddle into a wonderful valley of stunning bush, we found a very old Biv that had at one point been a great place to stay but was now ruined and past its used by date, we saw a couple of deer but didn’t manage a shot , spending the whole day in the valley we got back to the Biv at about 6pm – cleaned up and took off down the creak to the main river forks to stay the night under the fly and hunt the flats that evening and in the morning, we made good time and hit the forks in just over and hour and a half, arrive on “prime time” – plenty of sign but no deer. We set the fly had a feed and hit the pit.


- old Biv

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Waking to another stunning day a quick hunt up some side creaks at dawn drew a blank so we packed up and started walking down river hunting along the way. Scooting up a side creak we came across a nice little terrace of grass and whatta ya know – bingo ! A deer feeding away unaware he was coming home in our packs – I put the .243 to work and dropped him with a clean shot to the base of his head/neck he dropped like a sack of spuds – we rolled him over to find he was a young 6 pointer that has just started stripping his velvet, with the bush butchery done & splitting the meat, our packs just got another 10kgs heavier. a few hours later we where up and over the main ridge and out of the valley at the pick up point with half an hour to spare, and time for a swim in the river .





Good feeling to be out safe and in once piece, I put the pack on the scales when I got home and surprised it came in at just over 30kgs – My Pack started the trip at 14kgs for the four days – I guess when you add the meat of a couple of deer it soon adds up ! The body was a bit sore but given we spent around 12 +hours walking around the bush for the past few days I must be doing something right at the gym 

Enjoyable few days – Roll on the Roar 2014 !!!!

Originally Posted by Roy Lehndorf

me and a mate went for a 4 day adventure up in the Ureweras, walked in Friday & out Monday Arvo. Nice country to hunt in some really nice creaks and terraces but boy if you struck it wrong it sure turned to crap quickly . Restored my faith in me fitness and ability to walk a long way / day.

The walk in took 5 and a half hours with a 45min stop to dress out the hind Dylan shot in the creak bed, we made it to Te U biv (a nice hut) just on dark Friday night.

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On the Board !

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Te U Biv

Saturday woke to rain which just got heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier – to say we where wet would have been and understatement, we left a dawn and got back to the hut wet to the core around 2.30pm – no deer , lit the fire and had a feed, followed by a nanna nap for a few hours while we dried out, the evening hunt drew nothing, but we finished a grim day with a stunning meal of mash spud, surprise peas, onions, gravy and venison back steaks………yummmmayyyyyyyyyyyy

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Dinner for kings

Sunday was a fine day up again at dawn and we dropped over a saddle into a wonderful valley of stunning bush, we found a very old Biv that had at one point been a great place to stay but was now ruined and past its used by date, we saw a couple of deer but didn’t manage a shot , spending the whole day in the valley we got back to the Biv at about 6pm – cleaned up and took off down the creak to the main river forks to stay the night under the fly and hunt the flats that evening and in the morning, we made good time and hit the forks in just over and hour and a half, arrive on “prime time” – plenty of sign but no deer. We set the fly had a feed and hit the pit.

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- random cream can

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Waking to another stunning day a quick hunt up some side creaks at dawn drew a blank so we packed up and started walking down river hunting along the way. Scooting up a side creak we came across a nice little terrace of grass and whatta ya know – bingo ! A deer feeding away unaware he was coming home in our packs – I put the .243 to work and dropped him with a clean shot to the base of his head/neck he dropped like a sack of spuds – we rolled him over to find he was a young 6 pointer that has just started stripping his velvet, with the bush butchery done & splitting the meat, our packs just got another 10kgs heavier. a few hours later we where up and over the main ridge and out of the valley at the pick up point with half an hour to spare, and time for a swim in the river .

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Good feeling to be out safe and in once piece, I put the pack on the scales when I got home and surprised it came in at just over 30kgs – My Pack started the trip at 14kgs for the four days – I guess when you add the meat of a couple of deer it soon adds up ! The body was a bit sore but given we spent around 12 +hours walking around the bush for the past few days I must be doing something right at the gym 

Enjoyable few days – Roll on the Roar 2014 !!!!

Great write up Roy!

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Fantastic. Good effort and good shooting!

Excellent !:thumbup:

Mint, nice country and looks like a good trip

Nice write up. Man the Ureweras are lush. Nice country, should go back for a look one day.

Want go Roy. Good trip and great country.

Good effort, great pics,,, looks pretty lush in places

Awesome. Good to see a report with some dead game animals and a bit of old school hard graft. Well done

Nice of them to mow the lawns before you got to the hut

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Awesome. Good to see a report with some dead game animals and a bit of old school hard graft. Well done

+1 my thoughts exactly....well done guys

Thanks for sharing, Te mighty Ureweras.
I've been wandering aimlessly in those areas for years now. Loverly!

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Originally Posted by Scouser

+1 my thoughts exactly....well done guys

Yes quite refreshing instead of 4 or 5 pages of dribble where nothings been seen let alone shot

Beautiful country. Not for the faint hearted.

inspiring