Right fellas with the roar not to far away now and stags starting to strip there velvet.
Show us your stags for 2017.
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Right fellas with the roar not to far away now and stags starting to strip there velvet.
Show us your stags for 2017.
From today, shot at 20m under the chin with my new 243
Hamish
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@Dorkus add away mate.
Nice, good start for this roar, checked the trail Cam's today and there were several stags on them. One in particular which was around last year a 8 pointer but very long he's back and looking as good if not a bit better this year. We also had a nice 10 floating around but disappeared a month or so back ( don't think he has been shot) so we hope to find him shortly, lot of fresh trees thrashed up so things are in the early stages of the pre rut, roll on late March /April.
Are bucks allowed?
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Shot this guy Friday evening. Not bad for my first sika.
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Report to come when I can be bothered putting some words together
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That's a better pic than the one you sent me, awesome stag mate.
A buck from the other day. approx 230ds
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seeing a heap of promising young stags like this fella but nothing worth taking just yet
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Awesome Sika Dorks, I'd give my left nut to drop that.....!
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That's a cracker sika Dorkus good on ya, that fallow buck is a beauty Ponga 12 you have some fine animals in the area you hunt.
Were they soft velvet or ready to strip?
They look pretty soft.
Na mate all hard. Decided to get the big one mounted in velvet instead of stripping. Something cool and different from hard antler on the wall.
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Just got home from a weeks hunting two Otago catchments.
Mate got a beaut 14 on Monday, 400m shot, epic 8 hour mission walking out in stinking hot weather. We'd watched him crest a saddle into the valley early morning, spent all day getting there, then waited till he showed himself. Finally with light fading he stood up and had been within a stones throw all afternoon! How he hadn't seen or heard us I'll never know! He stood up and sidled out of view, so we got into position further down the ridge line and thankfully he came out of a small gut into sight again. After tossing up for quite some time whether to shoot or not, we made the call to take him. Mates best red stag by far, so we're both stoked.
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I shot this big 10 yesterday. 43 long x 38 wide inches. Very old stag, going backwards, teeth were down to his gums and most of his front teeth were gone or loose. 345m shot across a gully. We'd spotted him a few kms in a head basin under some bluffs in the shade late Wednesday evening. Didn't know how big he was, but thought he was worthy of a look. Left camp well before daylight to walk the few kms into the valley head, getting into position as day broke. Thankfully we located him again, further up the valley, and managed to close the gap to within 400m. Stoked with this stag, being such an old stag tops it off as a trophy.
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Ironically I think it's the same stag I passed up and took his 12 point mate (possibly offspring) 2 years ago in the valley over the ridge. I left him because he was 10 with a weak side...still has a slightly weaker side.
We saw a number of great looking young stags during the week, which is really pleasing to see on public land that is heavily hunted by machine and foot. Covered a shitload of country though.
Best few days hunting for a long time.
More photos and report next week.
Cheers
Josh
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Awesome yet again Josh......living the dream bro.......:thumbsup:
Nice one lads
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Two very nice stags you will no doubt be pretty pleased with the results and they haven't started roaring yet! Well done.
Late night... 14 points. Rimutaka Red
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Well done there craig.
Good strong points.
Looks good , interesting tops to be a good conversation starter over a beer well done.
Another top animal Craig C well done
Yep @sako75 , that's true.
Here's a better photo of my old stag I shot last week.
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It's not a dark timber. What are they rubbing on?
Wow Josh. A true monarch.
Didn't appreciate the length until seeing that pic. He's a cracker well done
Nice work lads
some of those animals keep pale timber if they stay in the tussock long enough iv got a couple of spots where they just stay that colour as theres basically is no trees , I was out yesterday arvo saw a hind then at long last spotted a stag he was a long way off but looked ok bit of length wide enough 8.45 I spotted him same time tonight its pitch black ! days are shortening up quick...nice head josh most including my self probably wouldn't have passed him up last year !