We have Doughboy, Cavalier and Martins Creek next month so will give a update on them, anyone with any info on them let me no.
Have also hunted South Pegasus and North Big Glory if that any help to anyone.

Any one been to South west Arm or Freds Camp recently?
Any informaqtion would be appreciated

Hunted Rollers Beach in 1990; lots of deer (tracks on the beach made it look like a stockyard every morning, after the night's activity) but never managed a blue cod, just the spotties. It was fascinating checking each morning to see what had been up the beach during the night. Found turtle tracks one morning. Hiked back to HMB and saw a few deer on the track (but the Sako was unloaded, of course). If you have this block you might have some difficulty finding a clear campsite. Approaching through the surf can be exciting. I understand that rifles tend to burrow down in the surf muzzle first into the sand and out of sight very quickly if the dinghy capsizes.

Bungaree - twice in the mid nineties; agree with the remarks above re trampers - I was onto a good buck (judging from the size and depth of the tracks) which was crossing the lagoon outlet early each morning. I couldn't take best advantage of the prevailing wind as the hut would've been in the background. Using a safer but less favourable approach I got within seconds of him (judging by the tracks left between one wave and the next) before he got wind of me, at which point the toes splayed and the tracks went very deep as he dropped the clutch and wheeled around  - very exciting playing cat and mouse but he was always (3 mornings before he became fed up and didn't come back) just a few seconds ahead of me.

Hapuatuna; we were about the first party in with the new hut. Lots of deer but too much wind was coming off the inlet and the back eddies kept betraying us. Took my daughter out several times with her 6mm-223 L461 Sako; we could smell the deer, hear the deer but with the thick scrub just couldn't get close enough to see them.  She loved it all the same - at least you knew the buggers were there! No shot was fired this trip but I think with more experience (see remarks above re the difference between hunting reds and hunting whitetail) we would've got one in the re-growth areas where there had been a sawmill many years ago. You're likely to get some local talent from HMB turning up for the day on this block, as it's just across the water from the back of HMB. Good fishing for cod but no mussels grow there.

Abrahams Bosom - that's well covered elsewhere.

It's a magic place SI - so look after it. I've found too many camp sites on SI that look like an outdoor brothel in one of the less privileged parts of the world.

I discovered that if you visit SI enough times you become somewhat immune to the sandflies.

Get the DVD, "The grey ghosts of Rakiura" and watch it before you go - has some very good advice in it. There's a copy in Palmerston North library for folk unfortunate enough to live in the North Island.

Thanks for that.  The old mason homestead hut didn't have one hence the question.

MassiveAttack wrote on May 5^th, 2010 at 5:52pm:



Yes pretty much adjacent to the hunters hut. If I can figure it out I will try and PM it to you.

Back yesterday from a trip to Chew Tobacco Bay. Being an RMLT block there are a few issues to deal with when booking so if you have any questions feel free to PM me. There is very little pressure on these blocks, ours had one group of 4 in the preceeding 7 weeks!

This is a great thread for first time hunters to S. Island!
Just wondering if anyone has hunted the Rakeahua block and what its like?

Cheers