Thread: 2018 roar

Originally Posted by JoshC

He is definitely the older of all those photographed. Didn't say he 'needs more time', that's just what I would do, everyone's different, everyone hunts for different reason and I respect that may be a trophy of a lifetime for some guys. It's great to see 'management' working, sounds like it is on this place. But also sounds like the management "program" is quite young, therefore even some of those oldest stags may just be reaching maturity now. Given the approx location of these animals I would be taking a punt that the genetics would be a big player, there's a heap of tucker, points come before mass and length, so if these are the biggest stags he's seen on the place so I just think it would be interesting to see if in another year those stags would be bigger again. At the end of the day I don't judge what others shoot or don't shoot, my comments are based simply on what I do.

Nah, I was just musing generally. Was just wondering out loud how we actually know or work it out. I often see heads and wonder if they will get better. I look at the animals maturity and the coronets (if I can). I get your point about genetics and feed - on that basis if both of these are right that stag might well grow on.