Thread: Stags and Bucks 2023

Woow 240 getting up there.

Meet up with this big boy this morning,took a couple of rounds to put his lights out.A good 12 too.
Head shot a hind n big fawn just as the sun was going down last night.Broad side and drop on the spot at 120yds.Some deer have been walking a few steps with sholder shots,thort il try something different,broad side of coarse just below the ear.Took about drop on the spot,mind you the 308 spot on after a gentle clean,.5 moa everytime.No more April hunting for me,freezers fill now.

Originally Posted by Trout

Meet up with this big boy this morning,took a couple of rounds to put his lights out.A good 12 too.
Head shot a hind n big fawn just as the sun was going down last night.Broad side and drop on the spot at 120yds.Some deer have been walking a few steps with sholder shots,thort il try something different,broad side of coarse just below the ear.Took about drop on the spot,mind you the 308 spot on after a gentle clean,.5 moa everytime.No more April hunting for me,freezers fill now.
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Happy birthday.
Good shooting.

Originally Posted by Trout

Meet up with this big boy this morning,took a couple of rounds to put his lights out.A good 12 too.
Head shot a hind n big fawn just as the sun was going down last night.Broad side and drop on the spot at 120yds.Some deer have been walking a few steps with sholder shots,thort il try something different,broad side of coarse just below the ear.Took about drop on the spot,mind you the 308 spot on after a gentle clean,.5 moa everytime.No more April hunting for me,freezers fill now.
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Happy birthday.
Nice head.
Good shooting.

Just had a few slices of red fawn back steak with a few veges washed down with a bourbon.Nice.
Oh the above stag is my 1st stag for my 69th year.Yaa

My first roared in stag. Got him in to 15m and dropped on the spot with a shot to the neck.

Originally Posted by Bobba

My first roared in stag. Got him in to 15m and dropped on the spot with a shot to the neck.

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A bloody horse of a stag there Bobba,well done for yr first roar stag.

My old patrol still doing the business.
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Nice work @Trout

Young fella on the board for the roar.

Originally Posted by mawzer308

Young fella on the board for the roar.

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damn well done he will remember that he looks so proud and so he should well done

An odd one my mate shot recently in the Ruahines, there was a bit of a wound where the other antler should have been, but we weren't sure if he had always been a one antler stag or it had been damaged.

Old buck, broken leg. Not pretty. So decided to shoot him. Spotted him last night right on dark at 600, came back first thing this morning and he wasn’t far away the same location and confirmed the leg was buggered before shooting him. Cool old bugger, double guards are quite neat. Still a fair bit of croaking going on and a few stags roaring in the distance.




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Wicked fallow ruts this year not so good on the red skins a couple of these will be hard to beat but hoping we will find something in the years to come that will

A couple of very nice bucks there but if you shoot the little ones now the job of finding a bigger one in the future will be harder.