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Went to the gym ( hunting ) 2 days ago to get fit for a fly in trip next week, despite the shitty weather.

Ran into a very good stag on the tops in heavy mist. But he was gone in a flash !!...

I got a good red early in the week that I had seen a couple of times in the velvet.
Antlers were nice and hard under the velvet and only took a few minutes to completely strip.

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Yes totally hard.
To be fair this summer in Canterbury has been very unusual.
Wet, windy, cold, hot ... any three in one day usually.
So I wouldn't want to read too much into this one being fully...

I shot my first stag for 2017 during this last weekend.
A very compact 10 pointer.
Not a monster but really wanted to see if he was fully hard as I have had my eye on another few bigger ones and...

What heat
Canterbury weather has been crap all summer.

Ok went out for a short walk this afternoon and found a freshly used wallow ! And mud on a couple of adjacent trees.
Crazy early for a red to be wallowing isn't it? Can only assume he's also...

They will be there somewhere as there are very high hind numbers in the area.
I have been going there for a few weeks a year for 10 years now and refrained from shooting a single female deer.
Also...

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Recon good for the 2017 roar.
Just spent 4 days on the Westcoast checking out the stags while they are still feeding up big time.
Saw 10+ multi pointers and 3 or 4 of them were pretty...