Thread: Lindis Pass hunting

Originally Posted by Trout

I came across somebody a few yrs ago who hunted from the car park in there.Walked in a few ks ,then a big circle (ks)and shot a young stag.It tasted nice too.

I went in there, pretty hard barren country, few good faces (not hard to work out where they are on a map..) so stopped there and set up camp on the tops opposite. Had a snooze and when I woke up it was about 3pm and blazing hot, though to myself surely any animals would be looking for shade in this heat, bugger all cover about, so picked up my binos and looked at the very first shady spot I could see under some rocks on opposite face and what do you know there's a chamois sitting there. Did a big mission down hill untill I was 410yds straight across from it. The 270 did its thing and the chamois rolled down the face, only to get caught up. Spent ages trying to get up to it and the pup finally got wind of it when we were well above it, so followed him down and got to literally 10m from it but just couldn't get to it to knock it off the face without breaking my neck. So stoked the pup is doing what he's meant to do though, he was a bit frustrated also but actually made it over to it at one stage and gave it a sniff and a lick and looked back at me like "come on ya wuss!" I didn't have 4wd like him and wasn't keen on a fall from where it was.
Didn't take many photos, in photo with pup you can see cham on the face opposite side of picture. Bit disappointing but not the first time and possibly won't be the last, that's hunting in the South Island! Don't know if I'd really make the effort to go back in there, there's not a hell of a lot of (decent) country to explore and it's a bit of a mission navigating around the edge of the private to get in there, you can use the track if youre not hunting which would be far easier. There's bugger all water, I literally found one creek with water in there and it was right down the bottom of the block as I went down and up the other side to try retrieve the chamois. Good to tick it off the list though and as said super stoked Bo did all the right things. It's like a whole new dimension has opened up hunting with a young dog and seeing all your work pay off.