Yeah, twins are the go, one in each pocket ;)
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I'm down there end of April 223nut, hope to find that out for myself :)
He guy I got last night was still in velvet, didn't look further other than he was a nice spiker for the freezer
Last night. He's still tormenting me. Windy, on dark, 600 yards. Fully stripped by the look of him.
https://youtu.be/e7WVNVdCBI0
Bit of wind alright :D
A mate shot 3 stags last week the jammy sod a 10,11,&12 two of them the velvet was starting to fall off the 12 was fully formed but still covered.i finally managed to spot a stag last week in the bush he looked pretty good to at a glance , am heading out into the wind shortly to check out a new area did some door knocking last week & got the thumbs up going to be interesting to see if there is much sign about .
Keep it up guys nice to see that the hard yards are starting to pay off :thumbsup:
Should be some deer around somewhere ..some sign about sadly no boneheads sightedAttachment 63478Attachment 63479Attachment 63480
This place is a bit special to me caught my first pigs here with dogs long gone looking at the ridges & valleys they are still the same its only me that has gotten old, no action until rite on dark i heard a crack 20 meters away then a hind poped up 150 away scope settled just behind its front shoulder ..kapow ! but no R93,s words ringing true as a wee fawn popped up out of the crown fern with its little ears pointed at me besides its mum, bolt open a fallow hind new to the district wanders along looking my way wondering what all the fuss (barking) is about ..smile on my dial time for home...no stages the recon continues ....
How's it all coming along out there boys and girls any luck???????:thumbsup:
Any pics:P
@Sideshow you wanted pics
Ignore time and date, was too lazy to reset it when I put the new batteries in
Holy shit 223nut as veitnamcam said that is one very nice head!
He even looks like he is smiling for the camera, bit on a lean there though? Is he on the side of a hill our has he been in your hooch while you where off the island:thumbsup:
Do you think you can catch up with this one?
@Sideshow Cheers, hoping to catch up with him with you camera and get a decent photo while he is in velvet and put a canvas on the wall, this pic isn't going to cut it. Not bad off a trail cam though
you should put a chair under the camera & each week add a little more to it perhaps start off with some , boots (mite pay to put some celery in them) , stubbies , flano by the end of it youl be able to slip in there at 10.34 am the deer will be non the wiser :ninj:
finally some heavy rain on the east coast should make things quieter under foot, full those wollows. seen a heap of deer in the last 24hr hinds feeding on all the fresh grass about and stags seem to be mobbed up still where i hunt. Only one good head seen, a young ten pointer with a thumper head so hopefully he finds a good hiding spot for a couple years:thumbsup:
stags holding hinds starting to go through the motions now. just need the weather to do its bit :pissed off: and they will be in to it. one stag heard roaring mid week.
I went out thismorning on the spot at first light wind was good id planned a bit of a hunt around some top,s scrub country heard a couple roaring but stuck to the plan I looked over on the face I was working towards & saw 7 hinds mobed up didn't see the stag but figured must be one there somewhere fog came in so 20 minutes latter I was closer & it had cleared animals had gone so I sat down on a tussock for a while then spotted a young stag maybe 6 or 8 point he was like a dog nose in the fern trying to follow where the hinds had walked I watched him for a while I did think of blooding the new rifle but thought better of it thinking there must be something better around if the tussocks hadn't been so wet I probably would have curled up & had a snooze but stags where roaring here n there so I kept watching I must have sat there a good hour then from no where there he was a monster he just immerged from the scrub huge black rack white points I never had time to count the points but I didn't have to his spread would have been a meter or more massive thick tops I grabbed that gun & wound it up to 18 power lined him up & all of a sudden I was feeling a little wobbly so I basically fluffed around trying to line up on a crappy tussock bush then monkey scrub neither worked then I sat down & rested on my knee by then he,d moved into the scrub I think he mite have heard me rustling around but never winded me I gave a roar & he just turned and looked over but all I could see was a big black rack ,neck a foot wide & a bit of his back...gone
:oh noes: I reckon he was around 350 away I probably shouldn't have wound my scope on full power kicking my self now it was habit as my 2506 scope only go,s to 7 so usually wind it rite up , on the bright side he,s pretty much undisturbed would have been worse if I had missed or wounded him there was no point going in after him so I sat there for another hour but he never reappeared ..il be back tomorrow first light !!!
Get some support to steady that rifle, maybe some cross sticks?
223nut any joy with that White tail? Our has he been the grey ghost?:cool:
Initially i didn't want to get closer to the action incase the wind changed or i disturbed unseen animals so sat back i was banking on something following the game trail across the face & had a plan for that as there was a small clearing that would put me 200 meters away from the gametrail but that bigboy made his own trails lol no shit the manuka was parting iv got it in my mind i should be able to fit a jug of beer in each top :D but yes i think a shooting apparatus could be good in that scrub country seemly hunting & fishing have a telescopic device
This is the time of the year to make the time !! @223nut get the gone hunting sign out :) , yes I did go out this morning & I did blood hells cannon re: stags 2017 ...its not the bigboy but a nice head all the same !
Bit of roaring in the mornings in national park area over the weekend
Got a goat with the bow and a mate got a hind yesterday morning in northern pureora, but nothing roaring there yet.
Got a quick hunt in sat morning in the rain in the northern ruahine, stags just starting to roar, low moans at start and managed to get two a bit more excited, but as the rain got heavy as the morning went on they went quiet by mid morning.
Always great hearing that first roar for the year.
Any other score on the weekend, in the stag department :D
Well good luck for this weekend guys
Went out on Friday saw plenty of sign but no animals.Gave @Sean the day off school.Attachment 66432Attachment 66433Attachment 66434Attachment 66435Attachment 66436Attachment 66437Attachment 66438Attachment 66439Attachment 66440Attachment 66441
Just got out and two parties of two were heading in.Another few vehicles were heading in as we drove out. Bloody good hike, will be going back during the week not near the weekends.
What's with your the rock Dundee? Did you and Sean get board and push it off the top :O_O: you want to take an old pair of boots back with you and stuff them under one end:thumbsup: