I thoroughly enjoyed watching that great footage shooting the stag the close in excitement captured the way it is Those few minutes where nothing else exists except you and the stag close quarters in the bush Top stuff thank you for sharing
Great vid, really enjoyed that. Might be a scrubby 4 ptr but better than some lazy 16ptr shot on the back of a farm and carried home on a quad bike. Really impressed how your lab will stay back like that. Buggered if mine will. Look forward to the next vid. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Rob, Yeah i put in a fair bit of work keeping him steady to the shot and staying for a long period for duckshooting and its transferred over to deer well. Hes not a real hunting dog but good company, if only he didn't sound like a steam train with his panting.
Epic hunt! There's more to a 'trophy' than just form and points. The effort and the chase all add to a long term memory of a great hunt. Far more than walking half click from the veh and popping a dumb 14 pointer standing in the middle of the track!
Out of all the NZ hunting footage on YT, I thoroughly enjoy yours the most. Good yarns, great banter, and the odd bit of hunting (haha). Just all round great content, Keep it up! Well deserved head, the journey for that head you will never forget. We found a crusty old torch (no batteries included) left at a hut which took 4 D-batteries, was no use to anyone that deep in the bush. Hut wood saw took the ass off it, unscrewed the lens and pulled the guts out to have a roaring horn.
Thanks mate, yeah not ideal but it can be the reality of that type of hunting. My dog reckons he should always get the back steaks haha. Im sure you have been out for a look recently, is there a Rogee Roar video in the pipeline?
Top vid mate. That bush towards shutes looked a bit thick. It's no different on the other side of the river on the kawekas side. The climb up from shutes to comet hut is good for the circulation. The nickname for that hill is "everest". Good point on the meat as well!
@@Muzz308 Your Toka rebuild video got me on to the Back Country Trust - seems ironic it caused you to miss out! I'm hoping to do some more work for them, be happy to work with you next time if an opportunity pops up.
That stag was cloooooose! Awesome video mate. Keep them coming I say. I want to make a Ruahines trip so learning what I can off UA-cam is handy. Cheers for the knowledge. Only criticism I could make is it would be great if you could level out the audio. ie Raise the volume of the whispering bits to match the rest and lower the volume of the really loud stuff. Otherwise great work for a solo camera man/hunter. Captured it all really well. Cheers
Thanks for the feedback Kyle, yeah still a bit of work to do on my editing skills haha I will try and put more effort into levelling out the audio in the future.
Bro that was wicked got me really excited to get back out there,good yarn about the meat in roar we are out there bone hunting chasing roaring stags to experience that intense feeling of close encounters with wild deer.not meat hunting might take as much as you can in right circumstances if your 3-4hours or more deep in the bush with all your gear aswell understandable.we gather meat most of year and let alot of animals go most the time any way your got good hunting ethics bro see it in all your videos thumbs up from the ruahine hunter loved the your mission man
Awesome video! Let’s be honest, stag meat tastes like s***! I shot a ten today on public land, back steaks and head only 🤙🏽. Need to thin some of these herds before DOC does.
yeow mean video. you're a bloody fit bastard 😂 we cruised into shutes hut from the other side for a fish a couple years ago, great little hut. seen you crusing around Feilding, are you local?
Where I currently live, wasting a hunted animal's meat is not only considered unethical by all hunters, its illegal and you can lose hunting privileges. While I admire your honesty regarding your decision, and I enjoyed your video....the thrill is the hunt, and being out there, and calling in that stag...as you know. why kill that animal and waste the meat? Let it grow to a trophy. Why not just take a photo or perfect your video...I'd still watch and admire even more if you spared the animal and didn't wast the meat. And yes, I understand these animals are introduced in NZ and considered by many as an uncontrolled population of pests. But you say yourself there must not be many deer in the area based on the undergrowth and that you haven't had a successful hunt in 2 years--maybe there aren't so many anymore? 100-200 years ago in the US there was an abundance of game, now hunting is highly regulated and a chance to shoot a bull elk, or buck mule deer can be once in a lifetime. I would hate to see things go in NZ the way they have gone in the US. I am a NZ permanent resident and hunter by the way. I know how hard it is to pack meat out of a place like that. I've passed on easy shots on bull elk because I knew meat would be wasted....take a photo instead. I'd still watch your vids.
Im unsure where you live @Peter Maguire but New Zealand has a very different situation regarding wildlife management compared to the rest of the world. In NZ all mammals are introduced species and our govt has classified them as pests. They poison and shoot thousands of Deer, Pigs, Tahr etc every year and leave them all to rot. There Ideal situation would be that we had no wild game animals and only the native birds and reptiles that lived here before european settlement. Nz is a long way behind the rest of the world in game management and hunters like myself try to promote game as a resource rather than a pest but it is a uphill battle. Thank you for your well structured and mature comment, but it is a pretty complex situation that not many people have a good understanding of other than kiwis who hunt.
@Naresh Clark I don't think you realise how deep in the bush I was mate. In NZ deer are classified as a pest so are shot in massive numbers and left to rot if numbers are not kept under control by recreational ground hunters like myself. Its a pretty complex situation when talking about managing them as a resource vs eliminating them.
@@Muzz308 I really appreciate your response and perspective and thoughtful commentary, and I do have a little bit of understanding of the situation in NZ--I've lived there and have in-laws and some friends who are avid hunters there, even one who was a gov't hunter. I appreciate the predicament and the culture---when you grow up in the US where wasting meat is unethical and even illegal...that is the culture you adopt. When the animals are pests and hunters are paid to kill and let them rot in the bush...that is the culture you adopt. No condemnation there. But if your perspective includes some global experience and you can appreciate what has happened to game and wild animals in places like North America and Africa, its easier to imagine how things MIGHT go similarly in other places...and for those things to happen before its being realized. People forget that CONSERVATION efforts are often led by hunters and hunting associations---perhaps the greatest example of that in the US is President Theodore Roosevelt---an avid trophy hunter who also became one of the greatest proponents for conservation in this country. I think your backcountry trout fishing resource is a small example. The days when you could knock on a farmer's door and access a pristine river with abundant trout seem near an end. Rivers are more crowded, access more limited, a guide for a day cost $600-800, didymo spreading river to river on tourist's equipment.....AND, its become a pretty big money making industry, which if managed well, could be win win. You don't think a wealthy tourist hunter would pay big bucks for a Kiwi bush hunt for a trophy red stag? Big Game in the US was arguably decimated....and the conservation effort has largely been a recovery effort. With a bit of foresight and leadership from Hunting advocates, there is opportunity in NZ to avoid the mistakes other places have made. Nothing is easy. Everything takes time. NZ exports Venison for G's sake, and leaves 1000s of carcasses to rot in the bush?? Red deer even made the menu on one of our fast food burger conglomerates. Letting the meat of an animal beautiful and majestic enough to want to hang its horns/antlers in your home, rot in the bush....well, I think most hunters would admit...its not a good feeling....something wrong with that. Practically speaking though, its like throwing money away, and letting hungry people remain hungry as Naresh suggests in the original comment. I reckon also for most hunters, a big part of the 'experience' is packing that meat out. Its hard work, and it can absolutely suck when you are doing it, but it certainly enhances the memory and the overall experience of the hunt, particularly when its providing meals for family, friends and people in your community who need. And I know from experience, Kiwis are tough...that bush is tough....much tougher than most American hunters in my opinion. I also have no doubt, that if hunters made it mantra to pack your meat out, you'd have more trophy animal in the bush---and not just on game farms. I do enjoy your videos. I bet you'd get more views if you smacked that stag on the ass rather than shot it...although of course can't advocate for that, hunting alone deep in the bush. For clarity, I am not condemning hunting practices or management in NZ (I realize its complicated), I'm just giving my honest opinion and hoping to generate some thought and conversation. I think there is a lot of opportunity to do things differently with beneficial outcome.
@@patmagee4327 Thanks for the comment mate and I agree with you and appreciate that you understand the bigger issues surrounding NZ game animals. Its definitely not my standard procedure to leave meat and when I first started hunting we would carry the buggers out whole haha. I will try do a vid that gets a bit deeper into meat recovery options in the future. I have been lucky to hunt in a few different countries off the back of my old job and each has similarities and differences in there attempts balancing animal populations with the health of the ecosystems they live. Some are better at it than others but none have the perfect solution. I hope NZ continues to progress and starts to implement some strategy and proper management instead of our current free for all. I will continue to remain honest about how I personally conduct myself as a hunter and will attempt to explain why I do what I do when asked. Thanks again Muzz
A great composed hunter, my husband and I really enjoyed the watch, thankyou muzz 308
Love the roaring device lol awesome
Good vid Muz. Your scrubby bugger was a good calling and must have been a buzz. Thanks for the video cobber. take it easy.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching that great footage shooting the stag the close in excitement captured the way it is
Those few minutes where nothing else exists except you and the stag close quarters in the bush
Top stuff thank you for sharing
Thanks for taking us along 😎😎
One of the best channels around bro, love your honesty on it too no point carrying a stag out when you’re that far in 🤙🏽
Thanks Josh, appreciate that bro.
Great vid, really enjoyed that. Might be a scrubby 4 ptr but better than some lazy 16ptr shot on the back of a farm and carried home on a quad bike. Really impressed how your lab will stay back like that. Buggered if mine will. Look forward to the next vid. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Rob, Yeah i put in a fair bit of work keeping him steady to the shot and staying for a long period for duckshooting and its transferred over to deer well. Hes not a real hunting dog but good company, if only he didn't sound like a steam train with his panting.
Epic hunt! There's more to a 'trophy' than just form and points. The effort and the chase all add to a long term memory of a great hunt. Far more than walking half click from the veh and popping a dumb 14 pointer standing in the middle of the track!
Thanks for taking the time and trouble in making this vid! I live in Oz now and can`t do much of this stuff anymore!
No trouble mate thanks for checking it out.
Out of all the NZ hunting footage on YT, I thoroughly enjoy yours the most. Good yarns, great banter, and the odd bit of hunting (haha). Just all round great content, Keep it up! Well deserved head, the journey for that head you will never forget.
We found a crusty old torch (no batteries included) left at a hut which took 4 D-batteries, was no use to anyone that deep in the bush. Hut wood saw took the ass off it, unscrewed the lens and pulled the guts out to have a roaring horn.
"I hope you enjoyed this arts and crafts segment" 🤣 hahaha
Kiwi ingenuity at its finest bro👌 Nice work 👍
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Great to see shutes hut again, landscapes changed a bit there now! Keep the Vids coming
i realize I am pretty randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to stream new series online ?
@Sterling Misael Flixportal
@Sean Peter Thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I really appreciate it !
@Sterling Misael you are welcome :)
love the honesty
Great vid fella. Cheers!
Great result, good 👍 on ya. Fond memories of no man's road Ruahine hut Diane's and Chutes hut epic lap through the ngahere.
Hey Mate really enjoyed your Vid ! You say it how it is bro which is how it should be. Well done and keep them coming !
good video .
antlers and memories last longer then the meat ever well.
Awesome footage mate, primo viewing💪🏽👌🏾
Thanks mate great video plus honest re the meat well done
Awesome vid mate, good honest kiwi hunting.
Good stuff mate. Enjoyed the video mate and really looking forward to your Duckshooting video in a months time!!
Cheers Thomas, I am also looking forward to Duckshooting, fingers x it’s a good one.
Nice vid brother...meke as honesty about leaving that stinky stag behind...the only time of the year one thinks like that too..chur chur 🤙🤙🤙
Thanks mate, yeah not ideal but it can be the reality of that type of hunting. My dog reckons he should always get the back steaks haha. Im sure you have been out for a look recently, is there a Rogee Roar video in the pipeline?
@@Muzz308 I’m out tomorrow bro 4 days in the back of Taihape...chasing bone👌🏽👌🏽
Nice work mate!
Top vid mate. That bush towards shutes looked a bit thick. It's no different on the other side of the river on the kawekas side. The climb up from shutes to comet hut is good for the circulation. The nickname for that hill is "everest". Good point on the meat as well!
Yeah it looks like a everest climb from the bottom, a lot of people not looking forward to that climb in the hut book haha.
Mean bro your a bloody good watch all hunting no ego no flash as gear its choice as
Thanks Mate 👍🏻
Good one bro! That was exciting when the stag coming! 👍
Great footage of that stag coming in 2mek
Great video, looks like you worked hard for your stag. And good to see the paint we slapped on Shutes seems to be holding up...
Yeah mate, paint job looks good. I tried to get that job as well but was a bit slow off the mark haha. Cheers
@@Muzz308 Your Toka rebuild video got me on to the Back Country Trust - seems ironic it caused you to miss out! I'm hoping to do some more work for them, be happy to work with you next time if an opportunity pops up.
@@KawekaJC mate thats so cool to hear the Toka vid got you onto it.
Awesome work muzz thanks for sharing
Thanks Gav,
That stag was cloooooose! Awesome video mate. Keep them coming I say. I want to make a Ruahines trip so learning what I can off UA-cam is handy. Cheers for the knowledge.
Only criticism I could make is it would be great if you could level out the audio. ie Raise the volume of the whispering bits to match the rest and lower the volume of the really loud stuff. Otherwise great work for a solo camera man/hunter. Captured it all really well.
Cheers
Thanks for the feedback Kyle, yeah still a bit of work to do on my editing skills haha I will try and put more effort into levelling out the audio in the future.
Legend mate, great vid.
Bro that is some awesome footage
Mean vid Muzz. Ka pai te mahi ehoa
good on yah brother enjoyed the vid brothers
Good hunt mate..you like getting in the thick shit..good stuff..cheers for shareing mate
Mean hunt!
Great video. I’ve got a mate up there now. Looks like a tough area to hunt.
Bro that was wicked got me really excited to get back out there,good yarn about the meat in roar we are out there bone hunting chasing roaring stags to experience that intense feeling of close encounters with wild deer.not meat hunting might take as much as you can in right circumstances if your 3-4hours or more deep in the bush with all your gear aswell understandable.we gather meat most of year and let alot of animals go most the time any way your got good hunting ethics bro see it in all your videos thumbs up from the ruahine hunter loved the your mission man
Thanks Joe, much appreciated bro.
Epic bro. That’s a lot of miles traveled 🤙🤙
Good shit man, wicked stalk in on that stag. The boys guessing the age was gold, older than 1 younger than 10 🤣🤣
Awesome bro , he came in hard!
Cracking video mate! Some thick as scrub there!
Oh mate, some parts were really bad haha.
Awesome vid 💯
Enjoyed that mate 🙂
Awesome as bud well done and good call on the meat I have done exactly the same
Thanks mate, yeah i think a lot of people have to make that call but not many will admit it publicly. Not ideal but it is what it is.
Awesome vid! Would rather have a pack full of one of them white woolly things then a stinky stag in the roar
worked hard for that, good on you
Awesome vid man. Although he was a scrubby 4 that footage was primo. Doesn't get much closer than that.
Thanks mate, appreciated.
Awesome video! Let’s be honest, stag meat tastes like s***! I shot a ten today on public land, back steaks and head only 🤙🏽. Need to thin some of these herds before DOC does.
awesum video, stuck in aussie again with noway of getting back with covid, maybe next year for me
Agh bugger, no good buggers over there want to take you out mate.
yeow mean video. you're a bloody fit bastard 😂
we cruised into shutes hut from the other side for a fish a couple years ago, great little hut.
seen you crusing around Feilding, are you local?
Yeah bro, Feilding local. I think I’m fitter than I am sometimes 😅
just drove past ya at the BP, are we neighbours even 🤔😂
@@1NSTYL haha must be pretty close 😅
such a waste of meat mate, even if you don't need it, give it to those who do
Where I currently live, wasting a hunted animal's meat is not only considered unethical by all hunters, its illegal and you can lose hunting privileges. While I admire your honesty regarding your decision, and I enjoyed your video....the thrill is the hunt, and being out there, and calling in that stag...as you know. why kill that animal and waste the meat? Let it grow to a trophy. Why not just take a photo or perfect your video...I'd still watch and admire even more if you spared the animal and didn't wast the meat. And yes, I understand these animals are introduced in NZ and considered by many as an uncontrolled population of pests. But you say yourself there must not be many deer in the area based on the undergrowth and that you haven't had a successful hunt in 2 years--maybe there aren't so many anymore? 100-200 years ago in the US there was an abundance of game, now hunting is highly regulated and a chance to shoot a bull elk, or buck mule deer can be once in a lifetime. I would hate to see things go in NZ the way they have gone in the US. I am a NZ permanent resident and hunter by the way. I know how hard it is to pack meat out of a place like that. I've passed on easy shots on bull elk because I knew meat would be wasted....take a photo instead. I'd still watch your vids.
Im unsure where you live @Peter Maguire but New Zealand has a very different situation regarding wildlife management compared to the rest of the world. In NZ all mammals are introduced species and our govt has classified them as pests. They poison and shoot thousands of Deer, Pigs, Tahr etc every year and leave them all to rot. There Ideal situation would be that we had no wild game animals and only the native birds and reptiles that lived here before european settlement. Nz is a long way behind the rest of the world in game management and hunters like myself try to promote game as a resource rather than a pest but it is a uphill battle. Thank you for your well structured and mature comment, but it is a pretty complex situation that not many people have a good understanding of other than kiwis who hunt.
@Naresh Clark I don't think you realise how deep in the bush I was mate. In NZ deer are classified as a pest so are shot in massive numbers and left to rot if numbers are not kept under control by recreational ground hunters like myself. Its a pretty complex situation when talking about managing them as a resource vs eliminating them.
@@Muzz308 I really appreciate your response and perspective and thoughtful commentary, and I do have a little bit of understanding of the situation in NZ--I've lived there and have in-laws and some friends who are avid hunters there, even one who was a gov't hunter. I appreciate the predicament and the culture---when you grow up in the US where wasting meat is unethical and even illegal...that is the culture you adopt. When the animals are pests and hunters are paid to kill and let them rot in the bush...that is the culture you adopt. No condemnation there. But if your perspective includes some global experience and you can appreciate what has happened to game and wild animals in places like North America and Africa, its easier to imagine how things MIGHT go similarly in other places...and for those things to happen before its being realized. People forget that CONSERVATION efforts are often led by hunters and hunting associations---perhaps the greatest example of that in the US is President Theodore Roosevelt---an avid trophy hunter who also became one of the greatest proponents for conservation in this country. I think your backcountry trout fishing resource is a small example. The days when you could knock on a farmer's door and access a pristine river with abundant trout seem near an end. Rivers are more crowded, access more limited, a guide for a day cost $600-800, didymo spreading river to river on tourist's equipment.....AND, its become a pretty big money making industry, which if managed well, could be win win. You don't think a wealthy tourist hunter would pay big bucks for a Kiwi bush hunt for a trophy red stag? Big Game in the US was arguably decimated....and the conservation effort has largely been a recovery effort. With a bit of foresight and leadership from Hunting advocates, there is opportunity in NZ to avoid the mistakes other places have made. Nothing is easy. Everything takes time. NZ exports Venison for G's sake, and leaves 1000s of carcasses to rot in the bush?? Red deer even made the menu on one of our fast food burger conglomerates. Letting the meat of an animal beautiful and majestic enough to want to hang its horns/antlers in your home, rot in the bush....well, I think most hunters would admit...its not a good feeling....something wrong with that. Practically speaking though, its like throwing money away, and letting hungry people remain hungry as Naresh suggests in the original comment. I reckon also for most hunters, a big part of the 'experience' is packing that meat out. Its hard work, and it can absolutely suck when you are doing it, but it certainly enhances the memory and the overall experience of the hunt, particularly when its providing meals for family, friends and people in your community who need. And I know from experience, Kiwis are tough...that bush is tough....much tougher than most American hunters in my opinion. I also have no doubt, that if hunters made it mantra to pack your meat out, you'd have more trophy animal in the bush---and not just on game farms. I do enjoy your videos. I bet you'd get more views if you smacked that stag on the ass rather than shot it...although of course can't advocate for that, hunting alone deep in the bush. For clarity, I am not condemning hunting practices or management in NZ (I realize its complicated), I'm just giving my honest opinion and hoping to generate some thought and conversation. I think there is a lot of opportunity to do things differently with beneficial outcome.
@@patmagee4327 Thanks for the comment mate and I agree with you and appreciate that you understand the bigger issues surrounding NZ game animals. Its definitely not my standard procedure to leave meat and when I first started hunting we would carry the buggers out whole haha. I will try do a vid that gets a bit deeper into meat recovery options in the future. I have been lucky to hunt in a few different countries off the back of my old job and each has similarities and differences in there attempts balancing animal populations with the health of the ecosystems they live. Some are better at it than others but none have the perfect solution. I hope NZ continues to progress and starts to implement some strategy and proper management instead of our current free for all. I will continue to remain honest about how I personally conduct myself as a hunter and will attempt to explain why I do what I do when asked. Thanks again Muzz