Thread: The Roar - Let's see some photos!

Originally Posted by Bryan

Amazing deer pictures JoshC!

I would have found it difficult not shooting that beauty stag in the left in the second picture! Looks like he is about to open a can of whoop ass too!

Cheers Bryan. We watched him for a few days servicing his hinds/cows, and came to the conclusion he was only around 4 years old so left him for another hunter (HOPEFULLY) in two more years at least. Sad to say that if the next lot hunt that valley properly they will see him and might not think like us. So many good stags get shot way before their prime, this guy is a classic example of a potential trophy needing one or two more years.

Funny about the whoop ass thing too, the ten on the skyline actually came over from the next watershed a few days into our trip and eventually gave this good stag a tong up and stole his hinds/cows! He was by far the dominant/most mature bull we saw in the valley, although wasn't sporting the most impressive rack. He snuck around in the shadows waiting to pounce. Was classic viewing.

Originally Posted by JoshC

Cheers Bryan. We watched him for a few days servicing his hinds/cows, and came to the conclusion he was only around 4 years old so left him for another hunter (HOPEFULLY) in two more years at least. Sad to say that if the next lot hunt that valley properly they will see him and might not think like us. So many good stags get shot way before their prime, this guy is a classic example of a potential trophy needing one or two more years.

Funny about the whoop ass thing too, the ten on the skyline actually came over from the next watershed a few days into our trip and eventually gave this good stag a tong up and stole his hinds/cows! He was by far the dominant/most mature bull we saw in the valley, although wasn't sporting the most impressive rack. He snuck around in the shadows waiting to pounce. Was classic viewing.

just to add a disclaimer before the rest of my post, it is only one photo and a photo at that, I was not there and did not see it.

That stag.... he doesn't look very Wap to me, he looks mostly red with undoubtably some wap in him.

The younger stag below him looks much more strongly Wap type to me but as I said it is only one photo and I was not there.

Your thoughts Josh?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

just to add a disclaimer before the rest of my post, it is only one photo and a photo at that, I was not there and did not see it.

That stag.... he doesn't look very Wap to me, he looks mostly red with undoubtably some wap in him.

The younger stag below him looks much more strongly Wap type to me but as I said it is only one photo and I was not there.

Your thoughts Josh?

Just the shade of him in the photo VC. He'd only just got out of a wallow. He was very cream coloured in full sunlight.

The younger stags were probably the most wap type seen in the block, they're probably the ones targeted by the choppers. No red type spikers/young stags were seen at all.

Originally Posted by JoshC

Just the shade of him in the photo VC. He'd only just got out of a wallow. He was very cream coloured in full sunlight.

The younger stags were probably the most wap type seen in the block, they're probably the ones targeted by the choppers. No red type spikers/young stags were seen at all.

control/cull measures are starting to have an effect in some areas then with regard to type of animals

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

control/cull measures are starting to have an effect in some areas then with regard to type of animals

Yeah mate definately seemed to be the case. 85-90% of animals we saw showed strong wap type characteristics. Few too many cows but fwf is doing a good job I think.


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Originally Posted by JoshC

Yeah mate definately seemed to be the case. 85-90% of animals we saw showed strong wap type characteristics. Few too many cows but fwf is doing a good job I think.


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That is good then....I think the coastal bush blocks are a lost cause as far as furthering the wap purity is concerned.
There is simply no way they can be selectively culled out of those areas............................................. .........
Where to from here for the wap?

Originally Posted by JoshC

Yeah mate definately seemed to be the case. 85-90% of animals we saw showed strong wap type characteristics. Few too many cows but fwf is doing a good job I think.


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Pretty much ditto for us.

Where my thoughts as well vc before I read the latter