Thread: Deer size comparison....

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yep of course there will be variations, one area I hunt even a mature red stag would struggle to make 80k gutted minus head and hocks while another less than 50km away as the crow flys I have shot several hinds over 100k gutted headed and hocked and a spiker just growing his first spikes over 100k, none had any fat over their rump to speak of but just big framed muscular animals on good tucker.
big old red stags can put on a fair bit of fat in the right country but not often I see it around here.
Fallow tho,jeeze the bucks can pile on the fat!

A Jap stag we got last xmas had well marbled meat and a layer of thick yellow fat under his skin like hard butter. It must have been an inch thick in places.

It was though an exceptional winter and spring in the NW Ruahine last year. I have never seen the deer fatter.

They will be doing a lot harder this year though. We are getting into the latter part of November and we still appear in the grip of the equinox. I have nearly forgotten what a fish looks like now.

Whitebaiting tomorrow I hope.

Cheers guys, still waiting to see where the Rusa fits in the list?

Originally Posted by Scouser

Cheers guys, still waiting to see where the Rusa fits in the list?

Galatear

someone needs to introduce those wee dog sized deer, you could fit a whole one on the BBQ

Finally found some info....The Jarvan Rusa was liberated in New Zealand in 1907 from Indonesia. The rusa is similar in size to the red deer, with a typical mature stag weighing up to 440lbs. Rusa prefer to inhabit steep county, dense bush and scrub........

so....in order of average size....i know, always exceptions.....

Wapiti
Red
Sambar
Rusa
Sika
Fallow
Whitetail

correct.....?......or is the Sambar larger than the Reds?

[QUOTE=Scouser;315513]Finally found some info....The Jarvan Rusa was liberated in New Zealand in 1907 from Indonesia. The rusa is similar in size to the red deer, with a typical mature stag weighing up to 440lbs. Rusa prefer to inhabit steep county, dense bush and scrub........

so....in order of average size....i know, always exceptions.....

Wapiti
Sambar
Red
Rusa
Sika
Fallow
Whitetail


Fixed......ive only shot Fallow & Red (1 of each, im not showing off).....my ambition now is to drop a Sika........

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Originally Posted by Scouser

Finally found some info....The Jarvan Rusa was liberated in New Zealand in 1907 from Indonesia. The rusa is similar in size to the red deer, with a typical mature stag weighing up to 440lbs. Rusa prefer to inhabit steep county, dense bush and scrub........

so....in order of average size....i know, always exceptions.....

Wapiti
Sambar
Red
Rusa
Sika
Fallow
Whitetail


Fixed......ive only shot Fallow & Red (1 of each, im not showing off).....my ambition now is to drop a Sika........

Its good to have goals! Go get em

I would put Sambar ahead of Red

Sambar larger than red going by all the photos i have seen

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carried a mature Sambar Hind on my back once, oh yes much bigger than reds going by the amount my spine compressed.

Going into Sisams Valley one morning and spotted a big sambar stag in the cutting. Got my mate to get up alongside him and run him against the bank so I could bulldog him. When we got real close I saw he had hams on him the size of a bloody horse.

Nah I said I don't need venison that badly. He probably would nearly have killed me as I wasn't fit for that caper any longer.
Guessing by the look of him, live weight, he could have weighed as much as eight hundred Lb

I would have liked to know what this little fat pig weighed.

I think he would have put a few red deer to shame. It was shot by Michele Hill one of our neighbours at Taneatua on a next door property.

For those that havnt seen this before.. It is a Rusa stag with the most unusual head I have ever seen.

Originally Posted by Scribe

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I would have liked to know what this little fat pig weighed.

I think he would have put a few red deer to shame. It was shot by Michele Hill one of our neighbours at Taneatua on a next door property.

For those that havnt seen this before.. It is a Rusa stag with the most unusual head I have ever seen.

That's incredible. Never seen anything like that!

Yeah Scribe, injured back leg?.....or just small gene pool?

Originally Posted by Scouser

Yeah Scribe, injured back leg?.....or just small gene pool?

Not in this case 'Scouser' True an injured back leg often cause malformed antler on the opposite side. This is not a malformed antler this boy has three antlers and three coronets.