THE ROAR-Hunting a stag

Of all of the things New Zealanders are lucky enough to grow up being able to do, hunting in our backyards has to be one of the most exciting things. In New Zealand, we are lucky to have the mighty red stag. When the season to hunt them begins it's an exciting time for many.

The season

The roar is a very short season. The season usually begins around the 1st April and lasts 2-3 weeks to around the 17th. The conditions have to be right. For the roar to really kick in the best thing you want is for it to be nice and cold for the stags to get aggravated. When the stags are aggravated they ‘roar’ more often than usual.  Put simply, timing of the roar revolves around when hinds are cycling (i.e. when they’re ovulating and ready to mate). At least that’s the gist of it anyway. Stags scent out cycling hinds and essentially spend their time marking out their territory, roaring, mating, and defending their harem against other stags. And it is without doubt one of the most exciting times to hunt stags.

Changes

Many changes happen before and during the roar. As soon as the velvet on the stag's antlers hardens, they begin to rub it off, scrape trees, and stain their antlers to be ready for the challenges that come with mating. The location of these scrapes, rubs, and/or wallows will tend to be within the vicinity of hinds. By late February / early March stags separate from their bachelor groups as they search for hinds to mate with.  

Hunting a stag

Hunting during the roar is an exciting time. Outside of the season it's hard to hunt the stags because you don't know their exact location. During the season the roar’ make them easy to locate and call in. Their roaring tends to die down as the day gets warmer which is usually around lunchtime. To call them in you need to imitate a roar. You can do this with an old pipe for example. As the stag approaches it's a good idea to back off from giving a loud roar, and let the stags roar. A stag does this to locate the other stage ready to fight. Getting a stag close guarantees a better shot.

Hunting a stag is one of the most rewarding things a New Zealander can do. Maybe you’ll get to do it too one day.

By Dean and Auryn

Reference:http://www.mountainman.co.nz/articles/article/31

Reflection

This week we have been doing some graphics work on vanishing points and some maths buddy today

Reflection

for today's maths learning we were dividing clocks into the regions that were needed

Reflection

i learnt how to do an enlargement and how to grid them out. Mr wood had to help me out at the start just to get me on track but once he had done that it became easier and easier to me and i had it done in a day just gotta color in the donut and it will be done i think its cause im kinda good at maths and readingb maps and i think you need both of these to do a good job. I need to learn how to rule it up by myself

Top 15 things u need while hunting

1.A gun

2.day pack(food water)

3.spare bullets

4.A knife and steel to sharpen it

5.a dog to sniff out the animals u shot

6. Medical gear for for cuts and wounds

7.Binoculars

8.Rain jacket stoney creek or ridgeline maybe

9.warm cloths

10.G.P.S(spare batteries)

11.compass incase G.P.S breaks

12.Torch

13.Tent to sleep in

14.Fire starters/lighter/flint

15.tarpaulin