Thread: The Stag who had the last laugh

Hey fellas thought you'd all enjoy my tale of woe from yesterdays mission into the Ruahines.
Anyway I persuaded the missus to come for a hunt with me into ranges, three and half hours later we arrived setup camp and had about an hour of light left.
Off we went to go have a look at some slips I have been scoping out on google earth.
I lift my binos onto the slip instantly spotting a stag just above him what looked to be hind and another three hinds about 50 yards higher. It was on. Setup the rifle on the big stag with only a couple minutes of light left, Bugger it hes moved behind a pine lights fading very quickly. I made the snap judgement to take the hind just above him. Squeezed off BOOMFA! Poleaxed her she rolled down the slip.

So what I did next was not only stupid but also dangerous. I decided to try recover this deer in the dark on a slip Ive never been too before. This not only was a massive mission in it self I found myself getting lost in the dark up in the ranges more then once trying to find this clearing haha lesson learnt.
After scuffling around for a couple hours I find the slip follow it to the bottom found the blood trail where the deer has fallen.
Turns out the hind was actually a stag! WOOHOO first red stag a massive three pointer. Looks like it lost one of its antlers in velvet.

This is where things took a turn for the worse, the stag was positioned on its side on a steep face so I thought I take its backstraps off while hugging the slip abit lower with the stag. So im eye level with its body. Im removing the backstrap from the stag noticing that I had a missed a bit I was thinking in my head "Thats abit strange its protruding abit" Ive never been one for common sense haha So I cut it with an absolute confidence. What immediately happened after what I can only explain as a torrent of flying deer shit and juice. A shit fire hydrant if you will. im dripping shit all down my head absolutely covered mate. In my eyes nose and mouth.... now not only am I up a dark clearing in the middle of the night, but also covered in shit hahahahhahaha what an epic first red stag cheers guys thanks for reading.