Thread: Stags & Bucks 2022

Originally Posted by charliehorse

@Pongo12

Sorry, been a bit busy and haven't posted for a long time. Didn't spend as much time chasing stags in the native this year as I normally do, but managed to nail a couple with my boy. Couple cull jobs on some sika and what not in between times. Cheers

I did end up going for a quick cheeky Catlins hunt and look at this wall hanger! Wow big trophy boy!
Sarcasm aside, I did take the head home, going to hang him on the wall and mark him as my first red.
Did not hear any roars coastal area there, unless that weird 'cow mooing' I heard in the distance was actually a roar.

One day I will get a proper head in the bush, im not sneaky enough for the wise old stags. But for now I am happy with a ton of meat and a funny wall hanger.

Hey Jessica. You only get your first one once !! Of course its a wall hanger, a keeper for sure !!

There will be more and bigger ones too but you will never get that first one again

Good on you for keeping it, well done

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Jess...you have come a loooong way from your first posts..... good on you for taking out your spikers head...... the wee 6 I shot many years ago has been lost forever as stayed behind on farm that changed hands.....but I still have photos....
enjoy the venison...

Arthritis or old break struggling to see on my phone.

Nice Fallow buck that myself and 2 of my young fellas managed to tip over last weekend.
I have let a whole heap of young or smaller stags and bucks walk over the last year or 2 hoping that I would bump into one like this and I was finally rewarded!
Not a perfect head but a bloody nice one all the same

Thats got a lot of character Brad.

Thanks Bruce , I thought so as well.

Bloody awesome to have the kids there to see it all unfold.

Hope all is well and those tyres are still going strong!

Just out from 5 nights in the Bush.

Few stags going still but not well enough to get onto them that way.

All animals were shot on the stalk, seemed to be quite a few decent animals around this year. Saw 3 8 pointers over 4 days hunting and took the fella on the right, nice representative 8 pointer and the best I've seen in the area in 3 years of hunting there.

Mate shot the one in the middle, only his second ever sika (first sika a spiker shot beginning of the trip.) huge bodied animal, and the thickest main beams I've ever seen on a sika. Impressive old beast he was.
@Rusky shot the fella on the left. Bloody good few days.

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Bloody good heads alright well done

My efforts for April, No world beaters but the big Red off a private forestry is a PB for me, and the smaller Red was my first ever deer off public land. Despite its small size, its actually pretty representative of the block it came out of. Way too many deer there and I suspect nutrition is limiting.
The Fallow is my second buck ever, and my first for 15 years. Shot on the back of farmland. All in all Im pretty pleased.





Im also very pleased with how they hang on standard hardware store coat hooks!

McNabb, Bleach the skulls a bit and they will look even better.


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Well done guys and girls and everyone is safe and sound.
This is the only photo of one of two scrubby stags for me.

Have taken a few fallow this rut. Here is one from the Liverpool plains ranges.


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