Thread: My woodhill day.

I'm genuinely rapt to have an opportunity each year to hunt on Auckland's door step, so not intending this in a negative way, but the frustrating thing about deer sex 'mix' is seeing scores of little does all day in a hunting block but only having a buck permit... Not seeing a shoot able buck. Yet twenty minutes down the road, large bucks with good palmated heads can be seen feeding and even facing off against each other near the horse and mx tracks. A great sight, but if the bucks aren't migrating north into the hunting blocks naturally, why aren't the forest owners 'encouraging' them to? I'm not surprised poachers can't resist the temptation.
Last year, my mate had the unusual option of either a doe or buck ('cos of an admin mistake), so he resisted shooting many does all morning hoping to get onto a buck. He didn't see one and eventually ended up going home without firing a shot because in the late afternoon we'd spooked everything in the block and he couldn't find a doe!! Haha. So frustrating when we even had time to video the does early in the day