Thread: Any roaring yet?

A fair bit of roaring during the night in central BOP on Saturday night, must have all come out ready to play after the storm.
They kept going until around 8am Sunday... when a loud bang quieted them down, one of them permanently

there was a couple roaring in the arthurs pass region on the weekend but nothing drastic

Just out from a couple of nights camped in the upper Makaroro. Stags roaring well enough but still pretty half arsed as holding hinds. Hind calls working better than roaring to interest them. Shot one old boy and a couple of silly spikers.

Just got out of Mokaihaha, nice bush block but no animals seen, did 12km in there and majority of the sign is in the front country around the back of the lake. There has to be around 100 newish trap lines through there too which probably didn’t help


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Was in the Whirinaki over the weekend, nothing heard, just a couple of hinds

Just got out of Mamuku forest, not a peep. Not sure if it’s the hot weather or if the roars packed up for the year because they were pumping in there on the 29th of March


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Originally Posted by Tangobravo

Just got out of Mamuku forest, not a peep. Not sure if it’s the hot weather or if the roars packed up for the year because they were pumping in there on the 29th of March


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Mamaku forest*


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Originally Posted by Tangobravo

Just got out of Mokaihaha, nice bush block but no animals seen, did 12km in there and majority of the sign is in the front country around the back of the lake. There has to be around 100 newish trap lines through there too which probably didn’t help


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Much sign in there after the recent 1080 drop?

Kaimais has some roaring from 0600-0900 this morning then shut up shop. Gotta be fast to get into them or camp out within a few kms of where you know the animals are.
Missed a solid old 10 this morning. Stalked right on into me while I was roaring. Cunning bugger, maybe next time


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I'll try and bag him tomorrow. What side you on?

Originally Posted by charliehorse

I'll try and bag him tomorrow. What side you on?

I’ll see you there this morning if we’re in the same spot and I’ll fill you in where the stags are haha


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Anyone had good roaring action in the western Tararuas? This rut has been lacking noise where I have been hunting..

Originally Posted by AP13

Anyone had good roaring action in the western Tararuas? This rut has been lacking noise where I have been hunting..

I have a mate that hunts the Shannon area, reckons they never really got going, reckons could be a fizzer.still so hot 27 here today.

Was in the northwestern Tararuas the last few days, barely heard a thing and those couple that were going were just making the odd moan. Real average at best

Yep, this last month has been way warmer than years gone by, it reckon it’s defo affected the roaring/rutting activity…it was 29 degrees here at home on the Kapiti Coast today.