Stags & Bucks 2022

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


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228DS, Greenstone
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Cracker mate, well done!

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Wow. That’s an earned fallow buck trophy [emoji41]


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Ripper buck from one of the classic herds. Well done

Cheers! He'll be mounted by Mark Walker, I'll update once finished:thumbsup:

Well done @hotsoup
That's about as good as it gets for the greenstone

Took the mrs for an overnight trip..
She said to me, "I just want to see a Sika stag, I replied its not that easy Bush stalking, her response was well if you see one then shoot it and il get to see it on the ground." How good :thumbsup: only 200m from camp we shoot this funky stag.

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Then following week smacked a couple more

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Nicely done!

Awesome stags too!

@hotsoup very nice greenstone buck, which block if it’s not a secret? I saw one like that a few years ago in there for about 5 sec lol

Spent Easter weekend over in the Gisborne region chasing stags with a mate.
Super stoked to have popped my cherry and landed this one!
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Super long range shot (30m) with the Browning Hells Canyon Long Range in 6.5 PRC and right in the boiler room with a Heart/Lungs shot. Bloody lucky considering he was chasing his hinds right past me at full steam!

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Spent Easter weekend over in the Gisborne region chasing stags with a mate.
Super stoked to have popped my cherry and landed this one!
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Congrats on the stag! Couldn’t help but notice you look like Daron Malakian


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Stags and bucks how about a bullAttachment 196928not a huge bull but my 1st winter bull

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Couldn’t help but notice you look like Daron Malakian

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Wake up!

As soon as this next front passes through I'll be out after one as well. From what I saw earlier in week, majority of the animals were really high still. You find the same?

Very high everything we saw was up in the top catchments

I was backblocks of tekapo on Monday and only saw thar on the tops

Lets hope this weather coming through might push them down abit. Make it slightly easier for me!

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Lets hope this weather coming through might push them down abit. Make it slightly easier for me!

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Were there a few animals around I’m heading down in a couple of weeks
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I was backblocks of tekapo on Monday and only saw thar on the tops

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Was there a few animals around heading down there in 2 weeks

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Was there a few animals around heading down there in 2 weeks

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What creek you heading up? Have hunted a fair chunk of it and might be able to give you some advice?

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Saw 4 mobs of Thar and a couple of singles, all from 800m+ away on the tops. Did a day trip with the inlaws to show them some real county so i wasnt hunting :(

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Doing free pest control on a farm just south of Wellsford. Guy has only owned the place for a couple of years and leans towards the 'green' side. Told me to shoot anything not native.......including deer.
Took along the 7mm08, just in case. Got the bottom buck just on dusk with the 7mm08......the second buck was shot by my buddy with his 17hmr as it ran towards the bush. Both heads have 26pts......

'One mans Pest is another mans Prize' I guess....

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Doing free pest control on a farm just south of Wellsford. Guy has only owned the place for a couple of years and leans towards the 'green' side. Told me to shoot anything not native.......including deer.
Took along the 7mm08, just in case. Got the bottom buck just on dusk with the 7mm08......the second buck was shot by my buddy with his 17hmr as it ran towards the bush. Both heads have 26pts......

'One mans Pest is another mans Prize' I guess....

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Crazy! Lucky man you are


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Where did he hit it with the 17HMR?

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Where did he hit it with the 17HMR?

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2 in the head,1 in the neck. 1st shot rocked it and it slowed to a stagger/trot, next 2 in quick succession dropped it.
He shot a red stag a while ago and dropped it on the spot with one shot to the brain box at 80m. That guy can really shoot!
That makes 7 deer ( 2 reds,5 fallow) down to the 17hmr in 4 months between us.... (20gr soft points)

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2 in the head,1 in the neck. 1st shot rocked it and it slowed to a stagger/trot, next 2 in quick succession dropped it.
He shot a red stag a while ago and dropped it on the spot with one shot to the brain box at 80m. That guy can really shoot!
That makes 7 deer ( 2 reds,5 fallow) down to the 17hmr in 4 months between us.... (20gr soft points)

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That's good going, have you lost any?

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That's good going, have you lost any?

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Nope. Its not a caliber for marginal shots on deer so the conditions have to be perfect. Ie a solid rest, within 80m, a clear shot at the head/top of the neck side on etc. Any doubt and the shot isnt taken. We use 17gr varmint rounds for rabbits etc but always have a magazine of 20gr sp's in a pocket for anything bigger. They will penetrate a deers skull easily from the side. Did a post mortem on one of the reds a while back.....here are a couple of pics of what I found......

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Nice work, very thorough. Full meat recovery

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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
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A real fun stalk onto 150 yards

Nicely done @Pongo12

You had some fun with your young fella this roar, that 9 point sika is a nice looking animal.

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half decent jap from last roar

Missed a good one last weekend will be out again this weekend there starting to Croak here:cool: