Thread: New to hunting

Originally Posted by GWH

G'day jhunt, Welcome to the forum.

Sika are sneaky little buggers and can certainly be a challenge to bush hunt. You dont have to go too far from any of the roadend access points in the kawekas to find them. They love to live in the tight manuka, but near impossible to hunt in that stuff. Find more open areas with fresh sign, where you can sit quietly and still and wait listening and watching.

Sika have good hearing and pick up movement very well, its hard for them to see/hear you if you are sitting still. This is obviously only worth doing if you are in an area where they are moving about, moving through. Many of the old experienced Sika hunters, use to take a book and sit in the one hot spot all day.

Quite boring, but possibly more productive that crashing around in the bush making a racket ;-)

wow thanks for all the feedback . That is the hardbit though. i went into the kawekas for the first time and me and a friend walked for hours in tight thick bush and it is noisy the whole time! so i just want to know where to find these openings etc. and then others say sika dont move around much at this time of year .. and i assumed you cant just stick to the tracks