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    Weekend hunt in urewera

    after the crap weather all week at work and checking the forecast 50 times. Me and two mates decided to pack up the truck Friday night and head to our favorite spring hunting spot in the urewera. Saturday dawned fine and i headed out to hunt a nice little side creek. It was encouraging to see plenty of fresh sign around and heaps of feed. I hunted slowly up the creek checking all the clearings on the way up, after about an hour I knew i was getting to the last of the good grass and my hopes started fading of finding a deer in the creek i was in. I was just going through plan b in my mind when i stepped up out of the creek and looked across to the last grass bench and a stag picked up his head as was staring at me between two punga ferns.I closed the bolt on the jw and drilled him through the neck at about 30m. The 7.62 pole axed him and I had myself some real nice meat for the freezer,Went to grab the camera and realised i left it back a the hut... Typical... the time you dont have it! the head was only a small six pointer but i was still stoked all the same. I carried him out to the mouth of the creek and wandered back to the hut for a well deserved brew. My mate saw three hinds and missed the shot, we were all keen as mustard to get back out late afternoon. About midday the wind got up and made stalking really difficult, so no more deer were seen for the trip but was a great weekend and we will be back soon!

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    Hey diddle diddle, aim for the middle.

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    Well done mate,how do you find the JW.

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    Good stuff :thumbup:

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    Quote Originally Posted by outinabout View Post
    after the crap weather all week at work and checking the forecast 50 times. Me and two mates decided to pack up the truck Friday night and head to our favorite spring hunting spot in the urewera. Saturday dawned fine and i headed out to hunt a nice little side creek. It was encouraging to see plenty of fresh sign around and heaps of feed. I hunted slowly up the creek checking all the clearings on the way up, after about an hour I knew i was getting to the last of the good grass and my hopes started fading of finding a deer in the creek i was in. I was just going through plan b in my mind when i stepped up out of the creek and looked across to the last grass bench and a stag picked up his head as was staring at me between two punga ferns.I closed the bolt on the jw and drilled him through the neck at about 30m. The 7.62 pole axed him and I had myself some real nice meat for the freezer,Went to grab the camera and realised i left it back a the hut... Typical... the time you dont have it! the head was only a small six pointer but i was still stoked all the same. I carried him out to the mouth of the creek and wandered back to the hut for a well deserved brew. My mate saw three hinds and missed the shot, we were all keen as mustard to get back out late afternoon. About midday the wind got up and made stalking really difficult, so no more deer were seen for the trip but was a great weekend and we will be back soon!

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    Good stuff. Must have been a heavy bugger to take back to the hut
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    I was thinking how heavy it must have been while his mate put the stick through the back legs. Neat idea

    How many hours do you drive to the part of Ureweras you go to?
    Took me 8hr each way to National Park on last weekend with a couple of pick ups and drop offs on the way

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    Well done outinabout, nice freezer filler right there!!!!!
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    Nice work and yep, looks like a heavy carry

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    Quote Originally Posted by HILLBILLYHUNTERS View Post
    Well done mate,how do you find the JW.
    yeah im pretty happy with it, for a $400 dollar rifle.Its no tack driver but affordable enough to shoot heaps of rounds through, only $60 for 100 rounds of soft point barnaul. Perfect for bush hunting. I altered the mag from 5 shot to 3 cause the 5 shot sticks out right on the balance point where you want to carry it. I reckon its lighter than the sako finnlight i had. Planning to pass it on to my son for his first centerfire and hopefully to nail his first deer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HILLBILLYHUNTERS View Post
    Well done mate,how do you find the JW.
    Welcome aboard HBH
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    Quote Originally Posted by sako75 View Post
    I was thinking how heavy it must have been while his mate put the stick through the back legs. Neat idea

    How many hours do you drive to the part of Ureweras you go to?
    Took me 8hr each way to National Park on last weekend with a couple of pick ups and drop offs on the way
    wow 8 hours thats a haul! we hunt not far from murapara, its about a four hour drive and about $50 bucks each in the rocky.
    seen/got any good heads in national park?
    Hey diddle diddle, aim for the middle.

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    Man I would be dam near suicidal if i had to drive 8 or even 4 hours to go for a hunt!
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    Quote Originally Posted by veitnamcam View Post
    Man I would be dam near suicidal if i had to drive 8 or even 4 hours to go for a hunt!
    Amen to that.

    I remember driving from our place in Switzerland to the missus grandparents in Germany , 1050 Kim's door to door.

    Left home at 1600 and pulled up st the front door in hamburg at 0030 to a well earned schnapps und bier.

    That and 4 days and nights of Omas cooking was the only thing that made it worth. Otherwise a mind numbing slog even at an average of 120kph.

    Hate driving long distance.
    Hate hate hate

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    Nice animal. Well done. Did you get or sense any aggro in the urewera ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwi39 View Post
    Nice animal. Well done. Did you get or sense any aggro in the urewera ??
    Never, been hunting the area since i was 18 (quite a while) no problems.Only met good buggers in the bush. did have the car broken into once but hey that happens everywhere.
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