Yep the old freezing works skills sure come in handy when dealing with game carcasesQuote:
Originally Posted by doinit
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Yep the old freezing works skills sure come in handy when dealing with game carcasesQuote:
Originally Posted by doinit
This should warm your hearts. 2 days ago.
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I think I might need to confirm this wallow for myself @Tahr . I can only do this if you provide me with the GPS co-ordinates please, this would be greatly appreciated..... :thumbsup: I'm on day 4 of a 10 day isolation with my family. Hoping I don't catch the 'rona' from them and have to start my own 10 days. My only recon has been satellite and topo planning on new ground I want to get into thus far. Although I have been able to go through all my gear and now reorganize my pack, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
I don't like your chances of avoiding it @ProjectsQuote:
Originally Posted by Projects
Saw this one on the tops last weekend of February. No bush for Kms.
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@Shearer looks like you have just buried a hiker……there pack is in the background :O_O::XD::XD:;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
4WD drivers Give me the coordinate's and I will sort itQuote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Haha. Our packs. we camped not far away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
Mole Tops. The head of Watson Creek. You are more than welcome to come and have a look. Good luck getting a 4WD anywhere near it though.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by chindit
Saw/heard two wild stags roaring on the weekend...
waited for the rain afew weeks ago to pass then head out, headed out to a washed out access fuck, looked at the map ok 500km trip to the west coast and back to get in from behind.
Got to the track took 1hr to walk 600m of the track years worth of snowfall trees across the track and because its a 15k walk to a campsite then another 15k to get to the spot i wanted
to hunt pulled the pin on what was a spectacular week of weather for hunting high country. Headed onto google to see when access would be restored to the original spot well not open
by 9th march now open by mid march so not the best start but still need a cold spell to get them fired up so not the worst news
On way to Roxburgh the other evening saw a half decent red stag herding some Hinds away from the road
Sure they all say that:O_O::XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
Hey @JoshC you must have more recon than that?:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
Heard a roar last night right on dark in Gore area. Just as I got back to my vehicle after slogging it for 4 hours prior not hearing or seeing anything .
Two Sika stags hee hawing just on dark yesterday
Ferny Ridge Kawekas
2.5 weeks early
No roars heard yet but seen plenty of deer up high over last two weekends throughout Canterbury high country. Heading back in to a new spot tomorrow so will keep my ears open but really not expecting to get onto roaring stags for another 2 weeks yet. I'll just keep letting the bino's do the work for me
No noise here as yet, hind wallows are in use and been getting used most of summer no real stag wallows been opened up yet.
And stags don't seem to be with hinds yet.
Heard a couple of fallow croaking this weekend. Private land.
First game camera action. Couple of Nelson lakes trophies (also known as scrubbers:D).
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Can't tell from the photo but they are standing in a wallow.
Whats a hind wallow?
deer like pigs will wallow all year round...a mud bath if you like...helps keep cool,helps rid of ticks and is just" jolly good fun dont you know".
its why deer farmers have wooden frames over troughs,cause bambi loves to play in them otherwise,root out ballcock and mud galore....
I know what a wallow is, but I have never seen hinds wallowing in the roar
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Like this, hinds in a wallow. Though late roar i have a few with hinds in wallows during the roar proper.
Wairarapa. I haven't seen a red stag with hinds yet. Hinds are grouped up and the odd spiker with them grazing peacefully but the big boys are scarce and not moving around much. They don't seem to have left their velvet growing areas much yet. They will turn up soon I guess.
Have seen Fallow bucks moving around and they seem a bit more restless at the moment.
Hinds Wallow most of the year, like said above ticks,lice etc watching some the other day covered in mud head to toe. Lot of the yearlings/fawns love playing in the mudQuote:
Originally Posted by JohnDuxbury
Some here @Tahr but finally found where some stags are living but yep hinds are in there family groups with the old spiker acting like any teen age boyQuote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
That's a great shotQuote:
Originally Posted by Hunteast
Heard one moan in the dark on Sat night. Hinds as above still not collected by stags. The stags will have to pull their socks up though as the first estrus cycle will start 20-22 March. I shot a nine a week ago (57 kg mince) and a twelve the week before, both hunkered away living in the scrub with beds very close to feeding areas
Moa Hunter, how do you know the hinds first estrus cycle is 20th March?
Canterbury high country over the weekend. Lots of hind groups about but no mature stags spotted hanging around them yet. Wallows showing signs of lots of traffic. I shot a 12 pointer which would have been planning some roar action, was pizzled up a bit but didn't show too much interest in either hinds or my roars before I shot him.
All deer love water and mud,most of the yr but not so much in freezing winter.brrrr
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Pic is in June - bit of snow but the deer still keen to get into a wallow left over from the roar.
From the date that the first fawns are born, take away the gestation period 234 daysQuote:
Originally Posted by Rusky
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Pic take 4/3/22. 8 pt stag watching over a hind/Yearling/fawn.
Yes all deer wallow, during the roar the stags will piss in them and stink them up to roll around in plus I suspect to cool down from all there activities!
He's in good nick.
Definitely hungry. Good length of timber.
Last week i was watching a big stag with a couple of hinds.A young smaller stag came out of the matagari sniffing around the rear of one hind,thinking he might get a bit.He didnt see the big stag rushing in to him.Big boys antlers hooked the young stag in the belly.Woow the young stag took off.I thort he was going to drop,but ran about 400yds with the big boy chasing.No let up in speed either,got chased into the bush.Big boy was angry in the body langauage heading back to his girls,was quick in his actions thats for sure.
Did a reccy in the Kaimais this weekend, roar/pre roar stuff is pretty new to me.
Would you consider these wallows or pre-wallows?
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I shot a pig not far from the below pic, is this from pigs or a stag?
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Was glassing a clearing, when I saw this right next to me. I could hear the stag knocking around not far out of sight, meanwhile two hinds were hanging around the clearing edge.
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