Thread: HIGHWAY AMIMALS

No photos,who needs to go hunting.Just drive the highway.Two weeks ago between Tekapo and Fairlie,a stag was hit by a van,van right off.Top of Burks Pass hill,a fallow buck was hit by a rental.Rental not in good shape.Tonight just on sunset,my daughter was driver home to Fairlie.Just out of Tekapo,5 tahr were in a paddock just by the fence.Just youngish tahr she thort,they looked abit lost and hungry.

Definitely plenty of animals on the landscape these days if you keep your eyes peeled getting about the place. School bus hit a fallow buck behind our farm when we were down south, went straight through the front windscreen caused a hell of a mess blood everywhere (from the deer) and you could pick the towny kids from the country kids all the towny kids were huddled together crying while the farmer kids were pretending they had guns with sticks and posing with dead deer while they got some vans together to come pick them all up

yeah some will be talking about it for awhile others will need a night light on

On the highway 50 a stock truck smoked a fallow stag, it was still alive just so I cut its throat, I had to take the kids to town, I asked a mate to grab it and chuck it away. When he went to get it someone had scored it can't imagine the damage when they skinned it.
The neighbours wrote off there Santa fe hitting a big reg last year.
This fallow got smoked buy a car last week was literally a head and legs left, we got called out to wash the road.


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yep , have seen a couple of fallow along Hwy 50 , thought to myself that they would have a fairly short shelf life

Last Monday when I seen the fresh fallow buck smashed on Burks Pass hill.It was hit in the stomach,I thort il grab the legs.Na the front half of top sides like jelly,guts ripped open.Been feeding on grass and yellow berrys.
You go thru a stop sign,this what happens.

1 a week being hit in the lindis atm

Red hind got smoked on Sth Branch Ashburton bridge along Thompsons Track not long ago, only the hooves left after a few days

When you go through Otematata heading towards Oamarama up the big hill just out of town there's a red spiker in the ditch on the side of the road got smoked a few months back and is still there just a skeleton now

Heading over to lake Taupo Sun night before last seen a yearling roadside then not 5 min later 2 big hinds right on the verge on my side. Been seeing the odd one the last year so def pay a lot more attention now on that stretch of road.

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Had to wait for this one to get off the bridge
dont have to go far in the costal waiarapa, coming home about 9 from a unsucessful hunt , came round a corner & had to wait for 2 big hinds to cross the road in front of me

Common occurrence on the roads around here. A few months back a tourist from QT hit a young stag up by Florence Hill, driving a VW Passat wagon. The car was not well but he decided to bubba it and drive to Owaka for repairs. Got as far as the head of Catlins Lake and cooked the motor.
Two yearlings on main road today coming back from Invers in the usual spots south of Purakauiti. Have struck groups of up to four. Even got held up on the way to a fire call-out by an eight pointer who decided that he would just calmly trot in front of the truck, flicking gravel onto my bonnet, all the way down the bloody road. Was sorely tempted to clip him in the ass end and deal to him but he was lucky with time not on my side!!

Saw four fat little piggies in a paddock by SH1 just north of Auckland this evening. It's the second time I've seen wild pigs on that stretch of road.

I could imagine hitting a wild pig at any sort of speed would be a messy affair. Did see a decent size, very dead boar on the main road between Clydevale and Beaumont last year. You would not be a happy camper if you’d hit that thing even if it was one of the logging trucks.

Few yrs ago a big stag got hit by a truck just out of Tekapo.Stag didn't survive,truck hobbled to garage for some temporary panel beating n check over.