Thread: Bendigo area hunting

Heading down Bendigo area for a look around.
Anyone here hunt down there? Not looking for peoples spots, but just a general of how accurate the doc labeling is for what to hunt? Like some blocks are just saying goats, but not far is fallow. Is it a small fallow herd around those parts?

As in bendigo down here? M

Hi @Padox yea definitely in your neck of the woods

Yup I've there are goats up there. More rabbits than you can shake a stick at too.
When it gets light I'll look out the office window and see if there is much snow up the hill.

Originally Posted by Freezer

Heading down Bendigo area for a look around.
Anyone here hunt down there? Not looking for peoples spots, but just a general of how accurate the doc labeling is for what to hunt? Like some blocks are just saying goats, but not far is fallow. Is it a small fallow herd around those parts?

You certainly got the right forum name(Freezer) for hunting around Bendigo at this time of the year.Brrrr

It's colder where u are than here trout we were only - 2.5 yesterday

Originally Posted by Trout

You certainly got the right forum name(Freezer) for hunting around Bendigo at this time of the year.Brrrr

Sure sounds cold!
It was -2 under the fly in kaimanawas central north island on Saturday night which was cold enough.

Yee -9 the other day.Thank god Im retired and don't work on building sites any more.1995 was in Queenstown building in -16c,fk at Arrowtown it was -22 one morning.Two years ago it was -22c at Pukaki just down the road.Good frosts here last few days.

Originally Posted by Freezer

Sure sounds cold!
It was -2 under the fly in kaimanawas central north island on Saturday night which was cold enough.

-2 driving through Cromwell to the workshop this morning. Looking out to the hill there's a wee dusting of snow but nothing too silly.

-5 in Alex yesterday

Cheers for the weather updates!
Any thoughts on Bendigo hunting? Would be awesome to look at some animals whilst freezing my tits off in the snow.
I’ll happily go for a walk and see anyway. Specifically if anyone’s walked the Kanuka loop track it would be awesome to hear what you saw. (Rabbits/hares/goats/pigs/deer)

was down there every morning last week...some of the days were rather warm,the NW wind was a tad bothersome.... didnt realise there was a hunting block there.

NW being the prevailing wind there @Micky Duck ?

Originally Posted by Freezer

NW being the prevailing wind there @Micky Duck ?

Not really. If there is going to be rain on the West Coast it will be nor-west in central Otago (or anywhere east of the divide). Which will mean it will be a lot warmer than a nice frosty high, but it gusts all over the place and makes hunting a bit tricky as it enviably ends up blowing your scent all around. Any deer I got when a NW is blowing always feels like a fluke as it really hard to pick a direction of travel.
But at Bendigo where bunnies and goats are most likely the targets still probably worth hunting unless it gets really strong and unpleasant.

If a southerly comes up at this time of year, stay off the hill.

Thanks to all the PM’s and offers, this forum sure has its fair share of legends. Much appreciated yet again