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    Quote Originally Posted by Tui4Me View Post
    Still some good Sika traits.

    There is a gap between the brow tines and the coronets where as red brow tines are typically hard down.

    Brow and trey tines sweep upwards and outwards where as red tines sweep fowards.

    Heavy pearling and a hint of a ridge on the left beam.

    Skull length doesn’t look that out of place to me.

    The tops and lack of defined ridge lines give it away to me but my call is slightly more Sika than Red by about 60 - 40
    Cheers for the observations, you confirm some of what I thought. You're right there is some ridging on the beams more pronounced on the left. Scull length is 14" so bit big for sika and more red.

    Has been a educational experience! Pleased I bought the antlers out, was gonna just take the meat and leave the head.

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    Hybrid,there's heaps in there,any doubt in identity then hybrid,here's one I shot a couple of days ago,had a beautiful clean single call and hee haw but definitely hybrid.Name:  IMG_20220416_082129_596.jpg
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    All the hybrids ive seen posted on the forum seem to have sika antlers and red bodies

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carbine View Post
    All the hybrids ive seen posted on the forum seem to have sika antlers and red bodies
    Like this fine specimen
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    Was it roaring per chance at the time?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rusky View Post
    Was it roaring per chance at the time?
    You asking me or the original poster? The one I posted above was shot winter last year

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    Both. I'm curious if a hybrid that thinks it's a red which is more sika makes a red roar or vice versa.

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    They can make all manner of strange noises and a lot easily identifiable by the peculiarity of their roars,but then others like the one I posted can sound like the purest Sika out and I've roared in others that sound just like a red,I've always believed that some have the ability to choose whatever roar they want,if they are trying to steal jap hinds they can jap roar perfectly,if they want red hinds they just go red.So if you are in red/jap country don't worry what your roar sounds like ad it's going to piss something off

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    Mine wasn't roaring, he was too busy scoffing food with one of his mates. Was like his mate hadn't seen a human before. Hung round till we got to about 50m away then slowly ambled off.

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    The big giveaway is the size / length of that skull , nice animal all the same

 

 

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