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Comments 0 | Posted by: Global Administrator,
Poronui will be attending the SHOT Show in Melbourne in May 28-30. SHOT stands for Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor trade. The show was first run in Australia in 2003 and has been growing each year - it is the largest expo of its kind in Australia and last year had over 8000 paying visitors in two days.
We will also be running a promotion for visitors to our booth - if they join us on Facebook at the stand, either using our iPad or their own smart phones, then we'll put them in the draw to win a Swazi coat valued at $735. We will have the coat on display - they are a fantastic product of very high quality and we use them at Poronui for our guides and also sell them to guests as required.
Come and check us out at stand 80, and you could be the lucky winner! See you at the Show.
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Comments 0 | Posted by: Global Administrator,
The sika stags participating in the radio tracking study have certainly covered some ground in the past month! One stag who travelled 14 km last year has repeated this journey to rut in the exact same gully while two other mature stags collared in 2010 have moved 4 km and 7 km to neighbouring beech forest.
Just when it seemed all of the stags were going to match last year’s behaviour we found two that had remained on Poronui late into April. One, a large 8 point trophy was shot by a Poronui client. In this case the faded collar was totally invisible in the thick mane on a misty Poronui morning. The other stag was photographed in rutting condition still on the property (see photo – note he has somehow managed to turn the collar upside down!).
The young stags were content to stay on the property – apart from one who wandered 12.7 km to Te Matai in search of females and probably getting a series of beatings for his troubles! To make this story even more amazing he was seen by James Blyth from Tauranga who watched the collared stag for 10 minutes before letting it walk away without shooting. Well done James, thanks for making this big call.
What is the study showing us so far? Well most of the behaviour seems to be consistent with mature stags spending summer on Poronui and then tending to rut off the property. Young stags on the other hand tend to stay on Poronui. BUT just to be different a small number of stags buck this trend or change behaviour from one year to the rest. The more we find out the more questions we face!
Great work Cam, now it will be interesting to see how many stags make it back after the rut!
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