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How did everyone get on? Missed out on both this year but still managed a few days on coast chasing stags. Haven't heard much talk about them this year but would imagine there were a few nice stags taken with the lack of waro in recent years. Any good yarns?
Tried to upload own photos but seems to upload them on a huge scale instead of nice small images that actually fit into the thread. Does anyone know how to stop this?
Waro activities in Otago and South Westland have still been very actively shooting with numbers getting hammered in a lot of areas.
Would also like to hear how others have gotten on?
I had same problem trying to upload photos from my canon SX70HS ,they either wouldn't upload at all or were on a huge scale as you put it.Quote:
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Seem to have fixed that by getting into settings on my camera and resizing them to a much smaller size.
If photos are from your phone i presume you can resize them on that too. Hope that helps!!
I just download photos from my Google account to upload here, have never resized any and they seem to work. This is on Android, have no idea what the dreaded fruit ones do.
One of the boys at work got a solid 10 out of Haast
right click on the photo and press edit , then resize the photo , then you can post it up.Quote:
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A mate of mine got a good 11 from the Ferguson
Managed to get this one to correct size. Long 8 taken in one of the open blocks around Haast
Shooting a few scrubbers, all shot by 2 boys - 8 and 9 years old
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@Stag looks like a young JC with Flynn? :)Quote:
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Well done boys! I actually had that block 20 March but handed it back as I was double booked. I should have gone by the look of it, probably would have been great with the bow.Quote:
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Probably more deer in the roar blocks we hunted this year than previous ones (same blocks or general area). Would have averaged seeing 40+ deer per trip.
We shot a two decent stags on the coast this year, main divide blocks and a couple in open blocks. Saw and heard plenty.
The guys we spoke to who put in decent effort had similar results.
Our party of 4 had Falls Creek first period.
We asked the pilot who was contracting to the company we flew in with if any WARO had been taking place and was told it had been hammered in the weeks prior to us going in.
This was soon confirmed with only about 10 deer seen over the whole trip, including down on the river flats and almost no fresh sign out on the tops or clearings.
We found piles of gut bags with fawns still in them, so WARO had been taking place for months before we were in there.
One of our party had been able to glass the tops on our block from a block next door and had counted about 30 deer out through the day on a previous trip about 3 years earlier.
Yeah gotta love those WARO pricks
What company did you fly in with?Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt2308
If you watch 'The weekend mish' episodes on youtube you can actually hear the pilot say when he picks the lads up from one of the haast blocks that the area they were in had a hammering. Last bit of this video.
https://youtu.be/6CUOzPmXMuk
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Yes watched that a day or so ago and was also going to post it here.Quote:
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He would know, he works for the same outfit that is doing some of the WARO.Quote:
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@Nathan F sure isQuote:
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Seems to have been this way for most of the south island by the sounds. Certainly plenty of deer kicking around. Drove past the GOH during the roar and I've never seen the carpark for access to wills so full in years. Good to see people keeping the track open by making use of it after it sort of disappeared for a while there.
And those blocks will always be hit and miss Matt. You've probably done better seeing 10 than they have in years gone by anyway
