nice one, i'll have to see if i can have a look when down in the Bay sometime. would love to check it out. cheers
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Caught this guy out at 2.50 in the arvo, was just discussing with the guy with me what way around the hill do we want to go, the easy way in account of already having a boned out pig each in our bag already. Why not add some venny, dumb thing stood and watched us then carried on feeding and my mate managed to get all on camera at 91m lol. Some lessons learnt are the hardest.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...87fdd05313.jpg
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Nice load of pork and venison there, another great day in the hills.
Man that Buck is a beaut, you have some nice animals down your way.
I'm pretty much a meat hunter but am slowly getting interested in securing a trophy head or two and I'll be well happy with a nice 12 red and a sika 8.
Shot this little 8 last weekend, (previously shot 2 other scrubby 8's but this one was the best) so thought I'd take the head to clean up as practice for the big boy one day.
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Came up mint
I know, it wasn't roaring.. But this is my first billy @ 38". Not even sure what is regarded as a trophy billy???
Hunting in East Cape region. I missed some seriously gut wrenching opportunities. Identified a beauty of a stag at 120M, 14pts and fired what i thought was a kill shot... heard the impact... Spent the next 5 hours trying to track him down. Seriously gutting. In the end I came away with a fatass spiker which was needed to fill the freezer. Great trip regardless! Many big animals spotted which got the adrenaline pumping!!!
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38 inch billy is a very nice trophy animal hotsoup, shame about the big stag though.
@hotsoup the NZDA minimum douglas score for a goat is 100. Measure the length of the smallest horn around the outside curve and double it. Measure the circumference of the smallest base and double it, then measure the length from tip to tip. Add all the scores together. All measurements in inches. Looking at yours I would guess it would make the 100 mark.
@hotsoup mate that's a huge Billy!! ! How much do you reckon he weighed?
I have a few good goat heads and one that is 37 inches wide Scores around 110 DS so yours should easily go over a 100 DS.
Mate I'm not too sure! No idea actually. He was pretty substantial. @Blisters
Fallow I shot last week
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Shit I ment snee road seen as how theres no deer down here , you must have overtaken tahr to get that one ! good stuff , you guys had some good frosts by the looks of it , its totally shat it self here now I tossed the gun in the truck at 3.15 to go for a arvo shot im glad I turned around b4 I even got there had a wicked mini storm blow through thunder lighting hail stuff getting blown all over the show , you timed it well ! looking forward to the shooting storey...at snee road :)
Not the roar any more.
But I almost shot this stag twice very early in the roar ... only for him to get away or the fog come in and beat me.
Spent a solid month hunting other places during the roar and finally got back to see if this guy was still around.
Found him with 6 mixed age hinds at 1500m and pulled off an easy stalk in to 310m for a short wait and regulation shot in the shoulder.
Nice to finally get him as I had seen him a couple of times last year also.
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He was a big unit but in poor condition compared to the stags I shot during the roar.
^ legend, nice work
Cheers! I had no idea, I actually saw the goat 2 days before I shot it. Will have to measure it. @300CALMAN
akaroa1 that's a beauty good to hear you got him after plenty of trying, perseverance does pay off.
Josie GWP bitch, 8 years old and done a lot of hunting in that time.
Exclusively a deer dog and finds and points well.
Great company and a good excuse to get out often.
Puts me on to plenty of deer and has only ever cocked up a could of hunts herself.
Hard to get her to stay still in the photos as she is very amped up after shooting a deer.
She has a saddle bag pack that I carry in my day pack ( too noisy for hunting ) and she helps by carrying out some of the meat.
Slows her down to only twice my speed on the walk out.
Load her up on the walk in too! Went hunting with my mate and his lab. He pulled blue cheese and crackers out of the dogs panniers!
Yes I do load her up on multi day walk ins.
She can comfortably carry 1/3 rd of her body weight and that takes a bit of the load off me.
You do have to watch out for rubbing across the dogs chest from the straps when its been on for a number of days, its been wet or its heavily loaded.
For day hunts having the saddle bag in my day pack is just perfect though.
Is he an 8? Cant tell on my phone.
Fricken long and wide.
Ripper head.
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Yes Massive 8 . Only shot with a camera