Thread: The Roar is on!!!

Part 2 of @Rock river arms hunter story above, we spotted a couple of nice stags up on terrace about 1km away from the first big boy. Just on dark a big 14 or 12 appeared on bush edge about 350 m away but was smart enough to stay in the cover of some fallen trees making the shot a no go, and if we moved from our position we’d be busted by the younger stags further out. While only got glimpses he was clearly big and one worth checking out. Came back a day or so later with wind favourable for a different approach where we had clear view of bush edge and back into bush....down side only cover was a clump of several tussock bushes. Nice 12 pointer showed up with about 30 min light left - 3 on top but missing beys. Probably 3-4 year old. Not what we were after so we watched him graze. The big boy was now roaring real well back 4-500 m in the bush - having a discussion with another stag further down who was just giving the occasional grunt. But sure fired up the one heading our way. The younger stag kept looking back over his shoulder, so pretty sure the noisy one was Mr BIG.
As the mins ticked by the big boy was getting closer to the bush edge and more vocal. Problem was the young 10 pointer had taken a strong interest in the clump of tussock we were hunkered down in, clearly it was “different”. Being down wind he could not scent us but his curiosity was peaked and he came into about 20 m away before deciding the tussock was too scary and trotted back to bush edge. Thankfully this did not spook big boy was now just back from bush edge by sounds of it, and we gave a roar to encourage him out. The commotion had out him on high alert and just on last shouting light he ghosted into view amongst the windfall. He chased the 10 pointer away before turning to present a shoulder. Quickly counting points we got 12 or 14, big dark body stag....this was our boy. A 150 ELDX thru the shoulder from the 284 did its job. He ran about 30 yards back into the bush before keeling over.
Once on ground confirmed 12 points, 4 on top on each side but missing beys. But he was not Mr Big, a nice head but probably son of Mr Big who’s out there spreading his genes.