Thread: Where Deer show up.

A couple of years ago I was up at one of my regular goat spots close to town. By all accounts this block only holds goats and the odd pig. One particular afternoon we'd just put the rifles back into the boot and jumped into the front seats to head home after the hunt when all of a sudden 3 reds emerged from the edge of the block, ran across the road in front of us and disappeared into the private property across the road. Never seen any deer sign in there before or since, and the other guys I know who regularly hunt the same block were all in disbelief.

Not deer this time, but I was fly fishing an undisclosed Otago river in November 2015 with a buddy of mine. We were just walking and chatting our way back down the riverbank the few kilometers to the car at the end of the day when my buddy suddenly stopped and goes "dude, there's a ####### tahr right there!". Without looking up I simply replied "ah it'll just be a goat man"... but when I did look up, sure enough there was a bull tahr standing on the opposite bank about 30-40m downstream of us. He was watching us, but wasn't spooked. Had time to slip my backpack off, get the camera out and take a couple of snaps before he sauntered off up the hill and out of sight. The spot in question is only about 30-40km from the Otago east coast, and a couple hundred metres above sea level.