Thread: Stags Shot 2018

Dog likes it

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

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Dog likes it

Watch the bugger doesnt eat it!

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Watch the bugger doesnt eat it!

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The dogs about as big as the brow tine so should be safe!

All cleaned up came up pretty good.

Crap bey tines which us pretty typical for the area

One clean stone two

A bit late to this thread but I shot this on the 7th of Jan. My first stag. Canterbury area

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

The dogs about as big as the brow tine so should be safe!

All cleaned up came up pretty good.

Crap bey tines which us pretty typical for the area
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Still nice head
Our Pelorus Stags have no Bez tines at all

Tell me - how you got so clean so quick ??

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Still nice head
Our Pelorus Stags have no Bez tines at all

Tell me - how you got so clean so quick ??

Boil for 90mins, waterblast, soak in hydrogen peroxide for an hour or so. Easier doing it when fresh and not covered in maggots. Also I have found if leaving the head to rot for awhile the bone will stain

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

The dogs about as big as the brow tine so should be safe!

All cleaned up came up pretty good.

Crap bey tines which us pretty typical for the area
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Typical Stoke Park (Rakaia) bloodlines there. I've seen many heads with both traits, weak bez and royal / inner off back tine imbalance. Never the less its a cracker head

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Boil for 90mins, waterblast, soak in hydrogen peroxide for an hour or so. Easier doing it when fresh and not covered in maggots. Also I have found if leaving the head to rot for awhile the bone will stain

Ah - I did wonder about the use of a water blaster

Yes - they stain if left in a tree like I always do - but to be honest - never had anything to get to excited about.
Apart from my very 1st Red Deer.
Believe this or not

Was a 351lb 12 point perfect Royal (wine glass sat in top)
Shot in Kaingaroa Pine Forest just 300m off the Low Level road back in 1976
Broke the Rangitikei meat chiller record weight by 70+ lbs and got photo take by publican then got head stolen by road workmen from Murapara and bloody photo from publican was a failure and never turned out :-(
And yes - you guessed it - never been close to getting "anything" like it since

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Boil for 90mins, waterblast, soak in hydrogen peroxide for an hour or so. Easier doing it when fresh and not covered in maggots. Also I have found if leaving the head to rot for awhile the bone will stain

I left a scrubber but with sentimental value buried in the garden and my bloody Great Dane/Black Labx ate the whole bloody thing other than bits of the jaw that had teeth in and I found about half of one side of an antler!

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Ah - I did wonder about the use of a water blaster

Yes - they stain if left in a tree like I always do - but to be honest - never had anything to get to excited about.
Apart from my very 1st Red Deer.
Believe this or not

Was a 351lb 12 point perfect Royal (wine glass sat in top)
Shot in Kaingaroa Pine Forest just 300m off the Low Level road back in 1976
Broke the Rangitikei meat chiller record weight by 70+ lbs and got photo take by publican then got head stolen by road workmen from Murapara and bloody photo from publican was a failure and never turned out :-(
And yes - you guessed it - never been close to getting "anything" like it since

That was the time when we were meat hunting the area, some nice stags in Kaingaroa. The then publican would have been Trevor Grimwood at the pub, was a dangerous place to sell our deer as we were always thirsty after some big carries.

Originally Posted by Mathias

Typical Stoke Park (Rakaia) bloodlines there. I've seen many heads with both traits, weak bez and royal / inner off back tine imbalance. Never the less its a cracker head

I never knew about the royal/inner off back tine imbalance but after looking closer at some pics of rakaia stags its definitely obvious now. Cheers for that Mathias

Originally Posted by Mooseman

That was the time when we were meat hunting the area, some nice stags in Kaingaroa. The then publican would have been Trevor Grimwood at the pub, was a dangerous place to sell our deer as we were always thirsty after some big carries.

Cannot remember his name but he was young for a publican (like I was late teens and he looked 30-ish and had a nice looking wife)
There were a few very pissed off local meat hunters who got done out of the 1976 weight competition by a true "Greenhorn"
My mate who was with me at the time in the "Big K" shot a 279lb Stag April 1st and I shot mine on the 6th - his nearly got the record - but mine smashed it
I will tell you (but I imagine you know already) we got totally smashed that night - I had a cheque for $351
Even after our splurge in the Tavern - I bought all my winter clothing - aka Swanni - boots - socks - rubber boots and shirts etc etc from the proceeds
The 70's were my best memories

Bloody hell - starting to sound too nostalgic – shut up already !!!

Yes from memory a bottle of beer was about .50 cents and not the little ones of today..... great times alright.

Here is a couple of pics that will make you nostalgic Sarvo and Mooseman. Even check out each others rifles in front of the Tavern. Eat ya hearts out young fella's. ( sorry about the pic quality, was a couple of years ago ) If I remember right the tall guy was the publican at the Rangataiki tavern. We were there for a pool playoff.