Best roar to date. Bagged a couple of beauties. 12pt was a real old boy , no teeth left & starting to go back.
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Best roar to date. Bagged a couple of beauties. 12pt was a real old boy , no teeth left & starting to go back.
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Very nice animals guys looks as if the roar has been good for you.
Couple of real thumpers, well done.
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Normally go to Fiordland for the roar but this year headed to East Cape for a change. Raukumara stags, L to R: my 8, shot at about 30m in thick bush after I got between two stags roaring, made the decision based on the tops and size thinking maybe a 10, but no, my bad. My sons "mini 11"" a nice even head but unusually small, and my 12 shot at 10m after taking 30 minutes coaxing him out of the thick scrub he was roaring in.
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Solid 11 the other week. Chased a spiker off 10m in front and pretty much ran into me. A shoulder shot sent him running, while I was waiting for him to die he gets up again so I put another 2 into him then he gets up again and the final shot just finished him! Theyre bloody hard to put down in the roar sometimes. Not the first or last time this will happen!
Unofficial score of 262, not bad for being scored as a 10. Bummer the 17" back tine couldn't be scored.
absolute cracker , incredible brows and a heavy head as well , have to be close to 200DS that one surelyQuote:
Originally Posted by mawzer308
Just got back from tussock saddle bivvy in the Kawekas, a few calling,
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Got this guy Monday at midday after listening to him go all night and move a 8poiny off the hinds he was with
Not quite mate 180's, although I did see one that would go close to that and of course I buggerd that one up!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucky
Still the odd roar last night.
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Shot this boy last sunday, any ideas on his age? He's not massive for where I hunt but he's the biggest I've seen since the bucks were in velvet.
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Around 4.5 years I’d say.
A couple more Raukumara stags....
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Popped up to the N.I in the weekend, drove into the Kaimanawa’s, and found some sika. Shot this stag, he snuck in for a look 8 minutes after letting out a single call, neck shot at less than 10 metres. Boned out over 35kg of meat off him and skinned him out. Saw a couple other stags and a few hinds but let them walk. Good times. Nice short trip, too many people up there, heard over 20 shots over 3 days hunting!
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Not many people and 20 shots haha that's either too many shots or too many people for me haha . I heard 3 shots in the kawekas and thought there were too many people and they were all from same person haha . Good effort though nice stag and some good meat there .Quote:
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MatiriHunter - if you wish an exact age to your stag, take the one of the lower jaws to your local NZDA branch in your area. The back tooth is cut, polished and the rings counted - down to the month.
35 kgs of meat is a good size stag for a Sika. Were you in Clements? Much Roaring? I'm heading in for a look tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
He was a decent sized stag, took everything off him though. Yes, some territory calls during the day. Mainly roaring thru the night. Didn’t have any reply to roars but stags we saw snuck in for a look.Quote:
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Man so many amazing heads in the thread. Might sneak out for a cheeky overnighter sunday monday to see if anything is going in the Catlins. Havent got a mature stag yet.
Trying for a last fallow buck today before the season ends on the 1st no luck but tipped d this little guy over.
First for the season. Also saw a really good muntjac buck but could not get a safe shot……next time eh:thumbsup: now for some NZ ducks:o
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After passing up a young 4 pointer and then having a couple of other stags give us the slip, my hunting mate roared in this ancient 6 pointer for me (more of a 5 really but technically still a 6) on ANZAC day. As you can see his head was definitely going backwards but I was still stoked to get a mature animal, good times!
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Hey @Dusty Fog not sure what your question is? Bucks have small antlers, which have three points each when fully grown. Antlers are described as ‘pearled’ or ‘bearded’ when they are heavily textured with lots of nodules. Dose this answer it?
Here’s my effort one day I’ll run into a big one. But this is going to taste great.
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Couple more from the roar, manged these 2 within about 5mins of each other.
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Bloody nice, well done :cool:
some fantastic animals thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Padox
Jees these Sika are something else guys, well done.
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@pongo where are you?your heads last year ruled the thread.
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Roar was super early in my area, almost by a month. Missed out on one due to helicopter flying overhead. Came back a fortnight later and took this scrubby bush fallow, plenty of animals around. Good to see them in good nick.
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.
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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 [emoji106]
Good on you for keeping it, well done [emoji41]
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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...
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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
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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.
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Bloody good heads alright well done
