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Same weekend. Different locations. When I went to text Craig about mine, I was greeted by a text about his from the night before.
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Wairoa ? What public land is there do tell?
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jeeze that dog on thee right don't need blaze:D
Another hard case story is that when Craig and I were in the Kawekas a couple of weeks ago, a mate of ours heard us on our hand-helds after I had shot a deer, and he was about 10 kms or more away. When he saw Craig the other day he asked him which one of us told the other to "get fucked" :)
The story was that our voices are very similar, and that I had called Craig to say I had got one down in a steep gully and I was going to leave it there for the morning, or he could come down and help. His reply was “Nah, bring it up and I will see you on the ridge top”. My final word to him about that before I switched off was “get fucked”. And by pure chance, someone out there who new us and recognized our voices picked that comment up. :)
I did carry it up that night.
Sorry about the thread hijack.
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Fuk thats a gnarly head you got the there Mohawk....are you putting the story up?
A ten I shot and lost on the tops this morning. Roaring like mad.
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Reasonable 12 to kick off the roar this year down south
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Nice stag there Jpayne, i like his shape, I'd be very happy with him, congrats
Back from a few days in the bush with a very happy client. Watched this pearler of a buck grunting around his harem of does, making delicate love to a couple and drive off two younger bucks before he grunted his way up to within 60 m of us which allowed my hunter put on a perfect shot. Love it!
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Cracker stag jpayne, looks like some nice open bush
BH the Buck is awesome, would love to see something that good in the Blue Mountains here, pretty early for the Rut I would have thought.
Cheers
dino
One up on the Wapiti and I havent even got into my block yet:P
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I'm sure it has some red in it though....
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My first ever stag shot. Missed a pretty sizeable 10 or 11 and a shitty 8 before getting this in the space of 24 hours! they were mongrel half spooked shots anyway.
Picture perfect roar in, completely un-spooked and shot him behind the front shoulder and he kind of half walked/ran off 20-30m before he was gonners :D
Amazing country in the Ruahines.
Nice mate :D
nice stuff well done man
Nice one kiwigreen!
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Nice to meet you @Hunt4life fancy meeting a jaffa in these woods:thumbsup: If its shit up in the Ruahines tomorrow we will have to come back for beersies:thumbsup:
Kiwigreen, for a first and a Ruahine stag, that's a great animal. 10 points is it?
Nice KG. They are often missing their bey tines (the second one up), so thats a goody.
Cheers guys. Yeah 10 points, real even and symmetrical too. I'm glad I missed that average 8 now, The average head in where we go is probably like mine or a bit bigger.
We've had a 10 come out in front of us a few years ago, 3 bullets it took to drop it and it looked completely dead - me and my brother walk up to it and it gets up and starts running for its life and took another 2 bullets from a .308 to actually kill it. Ruahine stags are not to messed with! haha.
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My dad's best head out of there. Still some good stags in there Hunt4life
An 18 pointer came off Waewaepa last week and was in the neighbours chiller.
Plenty of stags roaring up the Rokai valley Friday and Saturday in perfect weather. Shot a nice fat hind but was just too slow to drop her yearling as well on Saturday morning. We were shattered Saturday arvo so went to the pub to 'recover', which was silly cos the weather turned to crap and the stags shut up and moved away from the wind.
I got a good stag angry and wound up on Sunday morning, while cold and soaked to the bone, but think I pushed him too hard and as closing in for the kill at 60m he suddenly roared from 200m then went quiet and the game was over without me seeing his antlers. Gutted!
Between three of us we took two hinds and saw eight, but heard about twelve stags roaring. Good fun trip and I'll go back to the Ruahines anytime :)
Hope the heads up helped mate:)
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Clients stag from last week. 9 x 6 x 40" long, was wrapped to say the least with his first stag. Couldn't have cut it finer, was 40 m from the bush edge with light dying by the second when we got him
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