Thread: STAGS SHOT 2021

17 cars is a South Island crowd.. theres road ends in the Kawekas that have that pretty regularly year round. But 17 for the kiwiburn seems like a hell of a lot.

Another tonight from central otago

Originally Posted by hebe

17 cars is a South Island crowd.. theres road ends in the Kawekas that have that pretty regularly year round. But 17 for the kiwiburn seems like a hell of a lot.

Yeah a lot of pressure up there aye, most cars I've seen was 25 in the ti iringa carpark. Yeah I was surprised when I heard that. No one in the carpark where I was in the weekend.

agree 100% about just having dog along with you....if they do NOTHING more than help find animal after you have shot it,they are worth thier weight in dog bikkies.

I am not envious of the great Stags taken
But oh boy - that bush makes me GREEN all over :-(
That wallow pic and its surrounds - leaves me salivating

Yep I'm a lucky bugger with this one, she bloody handy as she finds possums for me at work and can catch pigs and stalk deer with me so she gets the luxury of being an inside dog! Makes me wonder how many other deer I would've found in the past if I had a dog!

Here's a freshly used one for you mate haha awesome to hear lots of bird life too.

Now that's a wallow

My effort for the roar, 11pointer from the Molesworth

Wicked boys.


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Closest thing this resembles a stag is that it starts with ‘s’ n is male. transient spiker, most probably from a block of pines that’s currently being clear felled. Was hanging around (other side of fence) a mob of hinds. Was a little pissed up. Shot with the mighty .223....




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Nice Buck you have there @Padox

very impressive brow tines on that buck. Cool

Another one from Southland from my second trip of the roar.. I passed up a few obviously young ones with potential before spotting this one holding a few hinds in some bluffs about 1km from my camp. He was easily a third bigger in body size than any other stag that was trying to steal his hinds.
I watched him for two days through the binos and my Nikon P1000 before deciding to have a better look and eventually pulled the trigger once I’d gotten there..

I wanted an older master type stag and while I’m happy with my decision to take him, I’m not sure that I assessed his age properly and I’d like some opinions on his age?

Some background. He was living out in the tussock and scrub. The area where he was living was well chewed out, I’ve never seen deer damage like it.
His body was in shit condition, he looked skinny through the guts but had a heavy front half of his body so I assumed he was older and had just been rutting for a while. He’d gone orange under the skin and looked like this had been going on for a while.. The pedicles while not super high on the skull weren’t overly big in diameter and timber wasn’t much to speak of.

Any guesses on age?
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last chance roar hunt for me,he wasnt roaring but still following hinds around.

Nice tops on him. Well done