Thread: Whirinaki hunting

How did you get on @anthony ?

Originally Posted by Sideshow

How did you get on @anthony ?

Just regained cell service. So day one got our camp which was more close to the army camp. got the quad of the back of the camper and got the fire lit then I went for a quick look up some tracks before dark with the 7mm08 nothing not evin any tracks just only sine I saw was the doc signs saying they dropped 1080 4 months ago which is allways a downer any what on the way back from camp I smoked a couple rabbits for tea. Second day we decided to go way back in to the bush to a little back country hut that is a pretty well kept secret around there. Any way it ended up taking us (me and a 70 year old bush hunter (Doug) ) about 9 and a half hours to get there becouse of all the wind fall getting in our way not to mention the amount of noise it makes trying to get through it spooking all the deer. Closer to the hut the deer sine became more prominent, this was a definite moral booster for us after our journey when we got there the time had reached 5:30 and there was no way we would make it back to camp so we had to spend the night there with no sleeping bags or any food. Doug stayed at the hut that evening to get a bit of a rest so I took the gps and my rifle for a look around the place for a deer may be only ended up following some stag prints for about 300 meters then it got a bit dark so I went back to camp as we didn’t bring our head torches so I got back to camp and had a horrible night sleep. Day 3 woke up and frozen wrapped up in a survival blanket with was not nice. Anyway we headed off and found heaps of sine so the 1080 definitely hadent taken them all ! We got back to camp in about 7 hours as wen decided to follow some streams and rivers. Back at camp Doug showed me a spot on the gps we’re the army had done some training and built some strange structures he said that every time he had been there he had seen a deer or 2 do I took the bike up the road about a k and walked in down a very very run down trail and got on to something straight away I could evin smell it so I stalked it for a couple hundred meters then I heard a bark and then a another and another but couldn’t see any thing then heard the deers hooves trampling away. gurrrrr so yet another trip empty coming home handed. As for the place I thought it was awesome but so easy to get lost the country is real steep and lots of creeks and ridges but the deer sign, tracks and stag rubbings are thick further in the bush plenty of fresh shit aswell just impassable to be quiet with all the wind fall shit in your way. Cheers im definitely not a author so sorry about the spelling and that