I found a freshly cast 9 point heavy timbered antler many years ago in a North Canterbury forestry block I was working in. I tried for three years to get him but no luck. He lived on a small hill in the block with a 100 metre thick band of dense manuka right round it and it was impossible to get through without him knowing you were there, and always snuck out the back door before I got through it. He was eventually shot in a cocky's paddock one night but he was well knackered and in poor condition according to the shooter.
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