I am ashamed to say I have been involved in two 'canned' hunts.
its bullshit. Ile never do it again. I have lost alot of respect for gus after watching a vid of him involved in a heli hunt.
The rule with these stags(my understanding) is most properties like this have deer behind wire(a couple of thousand acres) which are truly huge.
Then they have the rest of the farm(50 000+ acres) which has varying grades of deer on it. These are usually wild stock deer but every year they release a few big stags and cull the small ones. from what I have seen the big guys usually stay around the front of the blocks as the real wild stags beat the shit out of them come the roar.
they are "free range" as in there is no fence but it is no way hunting as we see it.
I can tell you after 2 months of guiding a wild stag on DOC land looks tiny. Stags in the 350+ range are very common on these properties
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