I spent 4 days last week hunting Sika/Red deer in the Kaweka range with two hunters i had never met before the trip,one being Steve.S that posts here and the other a keen Sika hunter from a New Zealand hunting forum.

Here are a few photos of mine and i think Steve will post some of his when he gets time.

We flew into the block by helicopter.


Monday afternoon the weather turned to crap,with no deer seen or or shot.


Tuesady morning,i headed up onto the tops.

I was following one hind in the scope(running shot) when in the bottom of the scope i saw another deer looking at me,so i went for the still target,yearling hind for camp meat.

7MM RM 139 Hornady Interlock 30 yards
Wednesday Morning,i was back up on the tops again.
I took a shot at a stag 313 meters and missed,so i headed up out of the small gully and into a mob of 8 deer,there was one Sika stag in hard antler so i shot him.

As i finished filming the deer, a Red stag ran past at about 150 yards out,shot hit him in the spine and he went down.

Thrusday morning all three of us heading back to the tops,4 more deer down,so we rang the chopper to come early.

Meat safe

Photos of the country i hunted



Skins and our firepower ,Remington 700 mountain rifle 7MMRM,Tikka T3 7MM08,Sako 75 300WSM

Beautiful country and nice photos. Thanks.

jeez TP looks like you had a hell of a time.wicked photos.were any of the hinds carry fawns with them or haven't they started droppig yet

Heres a couple of pictures, will add some more when I download them off the digital. Excuse the quality as these are stills grabbed off the video.

Looks like a lot of fun

A few more pics

This hind and yearling were over 600 yds away, photo taken at 14 power on the Leupold 4.5-14x40 scope with an Olympus digital camera



This hind was a bit nosy and hung around when it should have been long gone. The Barnes bowled her over nicely.


A couple more reds that came barrelling down the gut Nathan and I were in. They were scared by a helicopter operating in the distance.


Another sika yearling

Yep that was a great trip alright

Steve i told you not to tell Nathan about this site we can't tell stories about him now.

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Originally posted by TOP_PREDATOR:
Steve i told you not to tell Nathan about this site we can't tell stories about him now.

I didn't, I thought you did