Beauty top effort [emoji106]
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Some absolute beauties, great to see
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I seen a couple of distance stags last week bugger, so shot a fat hind instead.20kgs of veni for the freezer.Keep up the stags photos and storys guys.They keep my energy levels up.
Typical Marlborough head just before dark. 12 points but on a smaler scale
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Couple fallow yesterday evening. Sadly the bigger white/tan one had a split palm on one side which I hadn’t seen when lining up on it but still great animals for my block. Attachment 165029Attachment 165030Attachment 165031
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One from my first trip of this roar, went down to some old areas in Southland I used to hunt as a student. Roaring was pretty light as we were a bit early. This guy got up out of his bed a wee way away from me and started roaring and working a beat looking for hinds. I couldn’t see him and the wind was swirling and threatening to cut infront of what I presumed to be the direction he was heading. I had to do a fair bit of running when he roared to get the wind out of his path. When I thought I’d lost his trail the dog would pick it up and work it, and where there was wind scent the dog would move in that direction.
2km later I came to quite a big creek. I thought it was all over rover but Finn led me to splash marks on the other side.
As I stepped up out of the creek following the path the stag had travelled I spotted antlers waving so let out a wee moan and he stepped into a gap to look at me. As this happened the dog locked up and that was that really.
Probably one of the best bits of work the dog has ever done and one of the older stags I have taken. A nice 11 with a snag that doesnt quite convert to a point to make 12 points.
Absolutely rapt.
What a yarn bro cheers [emoji106]
Top marks to you and the dog [emoji41]
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man thats knarly looking head.....awesome story,great to trust your dog and get rewards...big pat deserved.
Great character head, an old donk. Well done
That's what the roar is all about, great hunt and trust in your dog, nice solid head to keep the memories alive. Well Done.