How's things shaping up around your rohi? Early or late this year?
We'll be in Te Urewera Easter weekend. Hoping they will storm uphill to meet us.
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How's things shaping up around your rohi? Early or late this year?
We'll be in Te Urewera Easter weekend. Hoping they will storm uphill to meet us.
I’m missing out the roar this year 😢 in lieu of a family holiday in August
Being Easter the hills will be alive with the sound of roaring
Take care sneaking in on someone’s roar
Nephew is borrowing my Sako and asked he does me proud as he did when we hunted last year
Out of curiosity PM me the area you are flying into
Looking forward to some Ureweras reports
Sneak out before Easter then hopefully after. Most probably end up shooting a goat.. [emoji38]
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Easters early this year i dont expect any real action till the week or so after, and then a little rest till the fallow start.
A mates farm stags have only just started roaring two weeks later than last year. It’s hard to say what the wild stags will do.
Interesting...good point with Easter being a week earlier this year. I have 3 weeks off so might have a few cracks as long as the home duties are covered.
It's good Easter's not in the peak Red or Sika roar this year. Might try poke around BOP before Easter then head off afterwards into the Ruahines till the 10-12th then Sika after that. Good to have lots of time off this roar!
Hopefully the weather's a bit more settled this year, spent 9 days in a tent last roar(2 trips)
I don't think the stags know when Easter is.
I never hunt easter but might do a quite trip up high just too see whats happening
Room for one more? Pretty sure the Mrs will let me out of the house, freezer is looking pretty bare.Quote:
Originally Posted by 199p
yeah bro easyQuote:
Originally Posted by Dorkus
Have you never heard of the easter stag? He delivers chocolate fish to all the little children ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway
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Roar commencement has zero to do with
Easter
Cold
Moon
Hinds (like all female animals) start cycling triggered by daylight hours (their only clock)
Hunting pressure suppresses active early Roars in certain areas
Cold - only does one thing
It gives a crisper clearer atmosphere (if thats the right word) for the Stags to hear each other "further" away - hence stimulates more action among them
The cold morning also allows us humans more chance to hear further.
Optimum time in most regions is 2nd April - 12th April - then often you will get another spurt of action (no pun intended) around 18th - 23rd April - this is the Hinds that missed conceiving 1st cycle starting their 2nd cycle and also 18 month hinds in poorer condition cycle often start their 1st heat then
They were roaring pretty hard last week with the southerly 14 of them, stags chasing hinds around, wollowing hard and thrashing trees to bits. Me and the hound had a stag roaring his guts out at our tent 4am in the morning. Obviously the hinds in our neck of the woods were cycling getting the stags all fired up, a week earlyer than last year.
I see your Marlborough tooQuote:
Originally Posted by tikka
Not a squeak out here yet (inner Pelorus) apart from a couple of moans back on 3rd where 2 stags must of X paths
You must be in a high population area with no pressure - similar to Farms
Stags on my farm in Taumarunui and Reporoa - were going gangbusters by 15th every year
That was the day I put them with the Hinds
Neighbor was up the Muller last week - nothing doing up there then
Have heard a couple of wild stags roar this week. Had a poke around some public land country on Tuesday and saw 20 odd deer.
All hinds were still in pairs or 3-4's. Young stags not hanging around and only one old stag roaring.
Roared a spiker into less than 15 meters, he came into suss us out.
Cold snap just passed through, will get the deer moving about. Snow on the tops ...
I'm giving hunting a miss this easter, hills will be full...of hunters.
Northern Ruahines is cranking into it now.
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Fired up early from 1080 Super juice.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
this snow down south is going to change things up. :thumbsup:
Where abouts is your farm in Taumarunui hahaQuote:
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Originally Posted by XBoltstalker
28 years ago
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