You must be ready for another 11km round trip to shoot him on your tents doorstep no? :XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
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You must be ready for another 11km round trip to shoot him on your tents doorstep no? :XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
That was one classic photo form last year @JoshC Attachment 218898
Haha yeah...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
We're away tonight for a quick mish. Nothing too serious planned this year...my sister is getting married on the 14th April so I can't go too far for too long :wtfsmilie: I did say to her, if she didn't want me to come she could have said, rather than have the wedding in the roar!
Grounds for disownment right there:XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
Finally got out tonight for a look, heard a couple stags just getting in to it. Got to dark. Have another look in the morning
Big day yesterday, left home at 3am and got home at 1:30am this morning. Covered a few catchments, not sure how many kms but I’m a bit tender today! Saw ok numbers of deer quite a few hinds and yearlings. Only saw 6 stags, on their own at the moment, wallowing and wrecking trees but didn’t hear any roaring. Saw one really old boy, 11-12 pointer, he was already with a group of hinds as I’d expect a stag of that age to be. Definitely a cool stag to shoot but conditions weren’t right so will go back another day for a look [emoji1690]
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We must have walked passed each other Josh c sounds about the same trip anyway . we also seen a lot of hinds and yearlings with no stags in tow . The mature and only stag we seen wasn’t interested in the ladies ,no roars heard APNP
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Greetings All,
A series of unfortunate events has severely curtailed my preparation let alone scouting for the roar. The weather over spring and summer has been wet, very wet over summer. Gabrielle has done a number on our local roads and my long planned trip to Makino has been torpedoed (three road closures on the way to the road end). The weather has finally settled, at least for now and we have moved from sodden to damp. The Taihape road is now open as far as Lawrence Road, about 35 km from home, so this morning I set of for a little forest bathing sans rifle in Blowhard Bush. A couple of hours easy trundle including visits from the local NI Robin population resulted in a much happier chap. I even spotted some deer sign. Hopefully some improvement in the roads will result in a trip up Kuri Hill in the near future.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS. The Kawekas are still inaccessible from the HB side but Kuripapango can still be reached from the Taihape side.
Northern Tararuas still quiet-heading into Mid Ruahines tomorrow morning for a listen will report back.
Had two stags going well in the Catlins bush today.
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Went hunting wednesday local, heard 2 stags. got within60m of the first one, pushing a hind up the hill. Saw bit of it thru the rubbish but had no clean shot.
Wind stuffed it for me thou and that one was gone.
Second one wind changed on me and it smelt me as i was heading down thur the native.
Nice 8 pointer, was running across in front of me, had the crosshairs on it a number of times, nearly pulled the trigger twice but just wasnt the right shot etc so that one was a lucky one.
Wallow well used that morning, might have another go on the weekend
Heard a couple of stags roaring right on dark as we were walking out of the mid/northern Ruahines on Wednesday night, laid eyes on a couple of stags and a couple of hinds, mate shot a nice even little 12 pointer, which was a pretty good head for Ruahine public land, It wasnt roaring or pissed up at all, and had no hinds, it had plenty of fat thou and being this side of the rut should be tasty.
Just back from a week in the Manson ,heard a couple of Hee Haws first thing in the morning. So they are thinking about it!!.
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the southerly blast couple nights ago got a couple reds in to end, run out of light before getting to see the prize.
It was cold enough that i wish i had my gloves and a thermal:)
Couple younger stags going last night but they were safe from me location and been to young.
Then my evening changed with a couple parries trying there best to ruin it, i managed to tip over not a bad buck.
I still haven't learnt about hunting on week nights when you have work the next day:oh noes:
Back out there tonight
In the ruahines today,there was no roaring but I did get some lazy replys from a stag from few roars I did while sitting down to lunch.got into a position and got my boy to stay back and roar while I moved in to deal with him,my boys roars sounded sketchy as it was his first time trying it,i got to within 15 yards of the stag as it walked past me below in some thick crap moving towards my boy,couldnt get a shot.
got back to my boy and the first thing he said was why didn't you leave me the gun haha the stag and a second stag came right into him and he watched them for about a minute at 20 yards until they moved off,he said they didn't spook but didn't know what was up,as the wind was perfect.his roars can't have been to shabby.
So they don't seem to be going properly yet but are starting to get into it.Apiti area.
Been into St James tonight seen and heard nothing at all.
Out for a look in North Canterbury last night. Saw a reasonable stag with four hinds but he had jumped the fence onto private land so didn’t have a closer look at him to see how good he was.
Saw at least 10 other hinds, but all either on their own or in pairs - no boyfriends in sight.
Nothing at all heard after dark, so action still a way off here I think.
Well done 30late,nice eater.
Heard one single moan at first light Mt Oxford bush faces yesterday morning. If I had been on his ridge in the bush a smidge earlier ( in the dark ) probably would have got a look. No wallows being used
Greetings All,
O joy. Just logged on to the Hastings District Council to find that the Taihape Road is OPEN. A quick check on the DoC website shows the Lakes Road carpark is also open. Mid week grandpa walks on the Kuri Hill track can now resume after a gap of 40 days. There must be something significant about that number. The northern road ends will be shut for a while yet though.
Regards Grandpamac.
Stags going this morning blowing it arse off and a real swirly wind made it impossible to hunt and hard to hear them roaring, got within 20m from one in the bush for the wind to swirl. Seen not a bad character stag out on the farm.
[QUOTE=turtle;1429501]No roaring but had been tearing up the turf up Greymouth way on DOC land
180gr corelokt .308 110m through both shoulders dropped on the spot, surprisingly little meat damage impressed
You probably did the local genetics a favour removing him from the gene pool....!!!
Went up st james a week or so ago, nothing heard.
Meant to get up this week but caught the flu.
Hoping there is something making a noise
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Was in the Tararuas last night. No roars. Lots of pig sign and fresh deer tracks 400m from the car *doh*https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...05b6552ae3.jpg
Identify your target beyond all doubt because you never miss (right?) and I'll be missed.
Went up north canterbury public land on Friday night. Saw one half decent stag but to far with that front that was coming in. Heard a dozen or so different stags roaring but majority of that over the course of the night. One more week of work and then into it properly
Was that you I saw heading into the Edwards about 9.15 Friday night? I was heading home if it was you.Quote:
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Morning hunt today and heard a couple of moans in the distance that I couldn't track down. I collected my game cameras but nothing of great interest on them.
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Greetings All.
Normal service has resumed on the Kuri hill track. Taihape Road from HB to Castle Rocks Road has numerous washouts, all well signposted. Castle Rocks Road and Lakes Road are fine with minimal damage, just the usual pot holes. The Kiwi Saddle track as far as the low trig was fine as well. Hastings District Council has the road as open on their website so I ignored the road closed sign at the old Forestry camp. Looking forward to another grandpa walk next week. Might even take a rifle.
GPM.
Been out twice since last time, two different areas that normally produce this time of year. No roaring at all, dead as. Not much stag sign either.
Very disappointing. Last year had a stag down and heard stags going off in 4 different areas, this year a couple roars on that last trip otherwise nothing , not a sound in 4 trips.
In saying that my mate on a private block that backs onto DOC heard at least 10 stags going nuts at night. saw a number of deer in the thermal
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Good to see kaweka access looking ok for the locals.
Waioeka still closed by DOC. I'm looking at contingencies now.
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Originally Posted by Longrun
yep its on guys, northern tararuas have finally kicked off id say this easter weekend things will be maxing.Enjoy and Take care out there.
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Saw this guy yesterday when I winded him but he's back for another look
finish him.Quote:
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Not 100% sure but it might be the stag in the top photo I shot on Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
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Promising young 14 Pointer spotted out in the open last week (30th March) middle of the day.
Average photo but got some good video footage
