Thread: what are people thinking the start date of the roar will be .... ?

Took the boat up the top of South Arm Te Anau with @Sako851 the other day and we checked out a likely looking valley. Typical fiordland stuff, looked nice and accessible on topo and google earth etc but it was a whole different ball game once into it! We had two stags roaring at each other one afternoon but couldn’t close the gap on them due to wind then next day had one sneak right in on us (not roaring at all) to about 15yds but he got the jump on me, I was staring intently at the spot I thought he was about to appear in before realising he was standing about 10yds to the left and downhill and had pegged me so as I moved rifle around he decided to high tail it out of there, had nightmares all that night about missed opportunity but that’s hunting. Pretty quiet really there would have been a fair few deer around us where we had the boat parked at night and no roaring heard. Pretty big days put in and no cigar but that’s what makes the successful trips all the better! Good to meet another good bugger from the forum and I’m sure we’ll get some more hunting done together when opportunity arises. Will be back in Te Anau on Friday night to take another forum member into wapiti block and I have another area I want to check out and hopefully stags are a bit more fired up.