Thread: Advice for a new hunter - Tararuas

Looking for some advice as I’m planning my first hunt for Red Deer, I live 10mins outside the Tararuas and my current plan is a day hunt, walking in from the Waihoine gorge car park making my way up to Cone Hut, then head across the saddle and up top and across the Cone ridge and down to Totaroa Flats Hut, before heading back down the river to the car park again. Figure this gets me both up on the tops and across the flats and hopefully in sight of some deer, would love some advice on the likely spots to keep an eye out for and wether this would even be feasible for a day trip (from what I’ve read it’d be 7-8hrs at least but planning to make a full day of it). If there’s any other suggestions from the same entry point I’d love to hear about those too. Excited to get up in the hills and get amongst it.