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I'd love to see everyones first and or best deer or any big game trophy.

Here's my first deer I shot when I was 12. He smashed off his tops on one side late in velvet and they grew into a ball and he broke a bez off at around 3 inches in the rut but I wouldnt change the old boy for anything. He was aged at 12 years and theres a bit of a story to him but I was stoked at getting a wise old bloke like him. Also has a couple of basal snags just to set him off!

Unfortunately lost the pics of him in the bush when I shot him which I'm still shattered about

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Not sure how old I was at the time I think 12-13. I just took 2 shots first one at about 80m and second when it stopped running at about 200m with a .308 and missed both, Second biggest stag I have seen to this day, anyway I was pretty sad and we were riding the bike back and I saw these yearlings running through the bush and I jumped off the bike while it was still moving pulled a shot out of my pocket sliped it in the chamber and let rip on it while it was running about 50m away. I was pretty stoked with it.

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Awesome story there mate! what did you do with the head?

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Not sure how old I was at the time I think 12-13. I just took 2 shots first one at about 80m and second when it stopped running at about 200m with a .308 and missed both, Second biggest stag I have seen to this day, anyway I was pretty sad and we were riding the bike back and I saw these yearlings running through the bush and I jumped off the bike while it was still moving pulled a shot out of my pocket sliped it in the chamber and let rip on it while it was running about 50m away. I was pretty stoked with it.

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I can just see you leaping off a bike with a rifle in one hand and a bullet in the other Toby.

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I can see you leaping off a bike with a rifle in one hand and a bullet in the other Toby.

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No Rushy... That will be the young fella next door that you pissed off last week!....... Run

Where did you shoot the stag Jack??? there is some good sized timber on it.. is it common in that area?

This is my first deer, shot it on my own after almost a year of trying, was over the moon, couldn't believe it after I had shot it.
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Awesome story there mate! what did you do with the head?

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Hanging in the livingroom.

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Old pic (at the old house) but now this lives next to my desk in the office :)

Lovely jap LukeS - hope you mounted him!

Love it Dougie - really like the skull mounts

Two shot - Got him in Aus here, there are decent ones but not a lot of big stuff comes out of this way - all wild liberations. In NSW where there were no wild liberations but they've been let out or escaped from farms and they are producing monsters. Queensland is where the highest densities are found but there isnt a lot of huge stuff either. NSW and SA produce the good stuff because they're all pen let outs bred specifically for the genes to be huge

Two shot - vic is good for sambar though, thats something we are the best at ha and the home of hog deer but thats as hard as getting a whitetail your way.

Wow never heard of Hog Deer... Gust Googled them... Ugly! ...they taste any good???
Can anyone shoot deer there or is it private land? do you need permets , licence etc...?

Shit Dougie.. Looks like your head got its own wall in the house!

Oh and JackP..... sugest you ask if they got the deer mounted ... NOT " did you mount him" sounds a bit red neck!!!

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Wow never heard of Hog Deer... Gust Googled them... Ugly! ...they taste any good???
Can anyone shoot deer there or is it private land? do you need permets , licence etc...?

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I reckon they're an awesome looking deer, hoggies are the one every aussie wants. couldnt tell you how they taste havent been that lucky yet. Its pretty strict on hog deer you have tags, and can only hunt them in April and the bag limit is one stag and one hind a year. Once you shoot one you are only allowed to gut it and then it must be taken to a checking station within 24 hours of harvesting it. They're endangered where they originate so Australia is very protective over them.

I'm not sure of all the stuff you need to do to hunt here. You definately need a licence and some permits but not sure on the specifics. Every state is different and they just recently changed the laws here. Dont quote me but I think NSW is the easiest to get one. Hunting for most species is on private (the only public land you can hunt is state forest). BUT sambar hunting is allowed in some national parks in Gippsland although you really need to check because its hefty trouble you'll find yourself in if you are where you're not meant to be.
Hope that helps.

I can't remember my first deer or how old i was but i do remember my first roaring stag. Ill never forget that.
Not sure if cameras were invented then :D

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2SK, I haven't run in a very long time.

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Not sure if cameras were invented then :D

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The guy that chiselled the rock drawings took his dinosaur in for a warrant the day I got mine so no pic I'm afraid.

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Lovely jap LukeS - hope you mounted him!

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Head shot unfortunately, skull was completely shattered so only had the 2 antlers left, but they are still on my wall in a home-made mount.

Unfortunately I don't have a photo either... Well not on my computer. I was out rabbit shooting on the farm just on dusk with the .22 age about 15 I think. Had turned to head for home and I cut through a gully instead of walking up the main ridge. Two hinds jumped out and I shot the first one between the eyes without even thinking about it. I only had a pocket knife so I cut the throat and carried on and 100m down the gully I shot the second one. I couldn't believe my luck and left the rifle with this one and ran the 2km home and in the front door. After getting yelled at by mum because I still had my muddy, bloody, boots on I managed to tell dad what had happened. Took two of us an hour or two to drag them out but that just made it all the more rewarding.

Hehe nice. My first was similar, was with a 22mag tho, and was a young stag. Got a photo somewhere.

Good stuff fellows. My first was over 20 years ago, a sambar stag with it's 2nd head. Hunted for 18 months before I finally shot it and the shot 2 spikers the following week.
By the way hog tastes fantastic. A 5 year old stag I shot (only one ever) was as tender and tasty as a fallow yearling. My daughter shot a hog deer yearling doe and it just melted in your mouth. Best veni I've ever eaten

first deer was a 400kg sambar stag, shot with a .303 smle III. shit head as they are around mt tarawera but was a complete fluke! we were pig hunting dogs had a chase in some thick stuff so i ran back to road to see if they would cross, heard a few cracks and a bloody sambar walked out about 50 meters away , so lined up just bellow the head and dropped him on the spot, all my mates could say was 'bugga man another bloody sambar'!!! i was buzzing, was 16 at the time.Attachment 5951Attachment 5952Attachment 5953Attachment 5954 first deer is the mates son next to the sambar, next is the head, third is my 2nd deer with the old 303 and 3rd was first stag during the roar! good times

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first deer was a 400kg sambar stag, shot with a .303 smle III. shit head as they are around mt tarawera but was a complete fluke! we were pig hunting dogs had a chase in some thick stuff so i ran back to road to see if they would cross, heard a few cracks and a bloody sambar walked out about 50 meters away , so lined up just bellow the head and dropped him on the spot, all my mates could say was 'bugga man another bloody sambar'!!! i was buzzing, was 16 at the time.Attachment 5951Attachment 5952Attachment 5953Attachment 5954 first deer is the mates son next to the sambar, next is the head, third is my 2nd deer with the old 303 and 3rd was first stag during the roar! good times

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Doesnt look like a bad head mate, only looks like a 2 year old

First deer that I have shot. I have killed a couple with my company car on business trips over the past several years.

Southland, December 2011, Sako A7, .308 with new Gunworks suppressor. I took the hind legs and back steaks as that is about all I could carry by myself. Found the bullet just under the skin, 150 grain Federal Power Shok at about 220m.

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First deer was a sika in the kawekas, was a good trip, took two years later till my next which was a red stag in the ruahines.

Ruahine Ranges - April 2010. Shot at 287 yards.

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Here is mine, shot in July 1987 aged 16, Waihaha in Pureora. First hunt with the Waikato NZDA. Phil Meulemkamp (sp?) took me out. His dog Jacques got us on to several deer that day. Phil shot the first one, I was lucky enough to get a yearling hind later in the day. Shot with an open sighted Jungle carbine, using 20yr old CAC ammo. Missed with the first shot, but it jumped forward and stopped and I got it second shot.

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Great photo Stug.......like the black & white ones.........good story too....