Thread: My first stag during the roar!! Only an 8pt. But I'm a happy man!!

Stoked, first stag during the roar for me.
And my biggest to date. Sure he's not a monster, but he's got a decent sized body.
Im 6ft 2, 115kg and he was similar to me.

Started off at 830-9am, and let out a few roars to have several replies. Spotted a few spikers trudging towards me. Had lined up on a few, but let them go.
A bit later, I had a louder roar back and spotted several hinds held up about halfway up the scrub, no stag to be seen, but was calling out, and getting aggressive, spotted the odd move past an open scrub but couldn't make out what he was.
2 hours later around 11:30-12, he had shut up, and wasn't making any more sound. So me and a mate decided to stalk in, down wind, and aimed for about 50m above where we thought he was through the crunchy, fern and Manuka. When we first hit the scrub, we let out another roar to see if we would get a reply after being closer to him.
Sadly, No luck, so in we went, about 100m in, there he was, spooked and bolted about 5m before I let out a grunt... that was all it took, he froze on the spot, about 20m away, sadly all I could see was his rear end, as his front and head were slightly behind some trees. I lined up in the back of his spine and let my new 7mmSaum rip, severing his spine.
He moved about 3m, before I loaded up another and sent him to sleep with another 150g berger to the base of his neck and through to his skull, the sheer force of a 150g pill traveling at 2900fps was enough to dislocate his bottom jaw. I was stoked. This is what I live for.

Well done.

Well Done, you wont forget this one being the first stag taken in the roar, nice solid animal and a set of antlers to remember the hunt.

its another FIRST you wont forget...enjoy the venison.

Thanks for write up. Pretty tight looking scrubby country. Yet to hear a roar in my 3 outings so far. Try again next week

Originally Posted by Pushover

Thanks for write up. Pretty tight looking scrubby country. Yet to hear a roar in my 3 outings so far. Try again next week

Yeah, it was mate. Was roughly here when I got onto him.

Job well done Lars... congratulations !
You'll get a few tasty steaks out of that one..

Originally Posted by Ftx325

Job well done Lars... congratulations !
You'll get a few tasty steaks out of that one..

The Mrs. Brought me a biltong box for Christmas!

Well done mate.

well done an good huntin...
nice healthy lookin critter

Awesome mate, well done


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Well done

Good effort Lars on yr 1st roaring stag.Enjoy the veni.