Thread: 2022 Fiordland wapiti reports

Originally Posted by Rusa3006

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I am disappointed to see the bull on the left in the beach photo was shot. In four or five years when he got to eight or nine years old he could have been a great one. Would of cracked 380 - 400 inches

I agree with you man that it's head does look young. When we first saw it and in the time we had to assess the bull, we made the call that he had a fair amount of age on him cause he walked with a low hanging head, had a filled out belly and neck and we could barely see any pedicle. Once we got him back to camp we went over the fwf ageing guide and the more we looked at it the more confused we got. When we got back to the lower glaisnock hut there was a member of the foundation there that congratulated us on shooting big mature wapiti bulls so if he says its a mature bull then I believe him. Either way it's a heck of a trophy in our eyes and it's going on the wall as my dad's second biggest stag behind that one is an 8 pointer from the Ureweras.