Lake Sumner RHA thank me later. This is for anyone else that’s wants a mission too. I’d regularly see 60-100 deer on this loop to the hut....
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:39 AM
Mrfants forget the Minga, there are a heap of deer in the Sumner RHA but you will need to walk in and stay a night or two, Hope valley would be a good start, you should be seeing deer in St James....
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:31 AM
Without giving the game away, if there are good numbers on private land (which there is from my experience in a lot of areas in Canterbury), there will probably be good numbers on the doc land that...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:27 AM
But then there's Philipo Sent from my SM-S936B using Tapatalk
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:21 AM
When I Started hunting at 16 it was 1969/70 , when heily hunting was in full swing in Southland/Fiordland and it was VERY hard to get a deer anywhere public or private . I had just joined the NZDA...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:20 AM
Some people get on to an area because an experienced actual "hunter" was dumb enough to show them where and how and in the case of private land, who. Then they go shoot there, be successful and claim...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:17 AM
Having hunted public land for just over 50 years, and had the privilege to hunt private land for a few years shy of 50, I have to say I've met hundreds of guys that I would regard as hunters...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:10 AM
The biggest difference I see is that private land is subject to more stringent, (but sometimes more random) management. Who hunts there, when they hunt, what they can hunt, how many and what animals...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:09 AM
I put way more personal value on DOC/public land hunting than private especially the trophy aspect. I have access to both but constantly find myself drawn towards the public land. Personally...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:08 AM
i manly hunt public land as im to lazy to talk to farmers and there's more deer on the public now than ever . there's lots of places that have little or no animals but go a few k in another...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:08 AM
I hunt both, there is a huge difference between farm hunting and paddock hunting. Some of the farms I hunt/have hunted are no less challenging than DOC land. The biggest plus to private land is...
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:07 AM
Looks like it's still attached to the hide
Liked On: 01-05-2025, 09:00 AM
99% of tourists have a phone or camera on them with quick access to it to take photos.Give me 10 seconds,I could get my phone out of my inside jacket top pocket and take a photo.Il beleave there's...
Liked On: 30-04-2025, 05:01 PM
Rule 1) whenever you see something, or think you see something do not tell the Department of Corruption about it... They are likely already planning how they can spend 50 million to track the...
Liked On: 30-04-2025, 04:59 PM
Yeah good! Don't know how many deer and pigs I have shot with them but it is a lot. Well into the hundreds as the .243 is my main culling rifle. To be fair I haven't tried a great deal of...
Liked On: 30-04-2025, 04:53 PM