Thread: Stags and Bucks 2023

Originally Posted by mawzer308

PB Red stag.

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Well done!
Makes a change from the Japo's you usually slay!

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that dog looks pleased too

She's had a busy week Micky chasing Stags, pretty tired now as you can see.

Well done!
Makes a change from the Japo's you usually slay!

Got a few of them too Andy, some character heads, will chuck them up soon.

Originally Posted by Pop Shot

@Sideshow - ripper buck mate.

I'm off chasing them a few evenings this coming week. Can't wait!

You over here @Pop Shot ?

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

neat little deer looks in very light condition the rut or lots of deer ???

@Barry the hunter bucks are coming out of winter he is moulting. They’re a small animal. This one has just finished stripping. The rut is lib July to mid August. So at the moment they’re trying to put on weight.
Yes also animal numbers very high. But I’ve knocked a big hole in that. Fallow are the main problem.
This one had a broken hind leg. Healed up and was feeding fine until I put a stop to it.
There’s a bigger one on my ground so he stays to breed all others get the cropped as they make a mess of the new trees.



Here’s the fallow problem one of 3 herds on the surrounding property’s.

We actually had to stop hunting last month as the game dealer was not taking any more as he was full up.
With everyone trying to finish their hind culls on the shooting grounds that they could not get to while game bird shooting was still going on.
Hope that answers your questions.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@Barry the hunter bucks are coming out of winter he is moulting. They’re a small animal. This one has just finished stripping. The rut is lib July to mid August. So at the moment they’re trying to put on weight.
Yes also animal numbers very high. But I’ve knocked a big hole in that. Fallow are the main problem.
This one had a broken hind leg. Healed up and was feeding fine until I put a stop to it.
There’s a bigger one on my ground so he stays to breed all others get the cropped as they make a mess of the new trees.

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Here’s the fallow problem one of 3 herds on the surrounding property’s.
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We actually had to stop hunting last month as the game dealer was not taking any more as he was full up.
With everyone trying to finish their hind culls on the shooting grounds that they could not get to while game bird shooting was still going on.
Hope that answers your questions.

Amazing what they can survive and then go onto thrive. I shot a half decent fallow buck last night, light was fading and he was 350yds out in some scrubby stuff and I thought he looked like he was limping which I put down to been fighting, however when we got over to him it turned out he had three legs! One back leg gone at the hock, he was pretty old probably 8ish and was in great condition, probably lost his leg to a run in with a fence years back, managed to get side by side to him so he's hanging whole in a mates chiller at the moment will get some photos before we skin and butcher him.
Now I've shot a 3 legged Chamois buck and a three legged Fallow, I'm on a roll!

@Sideshow - Yup, currently in Northumberland for another week before flying home. Just over here visiting family, but managed to organise a few evenings out chasing the critters.

@mawzer308 that's a beauty you tin arse! Save some for the rest of us aye.

Got away for another 3 nights, shot this guy in the pouring rain, had 3 hinds, a few battle wounds and had lost a lot of condition as they do.

Bloody awesome bush hunt this morning , pity about the crabby tops but a nice mature stag all the same.

sika now...you got sick of reds LOL

This one came into about 20 m looking for a scrap. 69gn 223 pill under the chin just about decapitated him

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

sika now...you got sick of reds LOL

Spice it up a bit haha

Originally Posted by Nathan F

This one came into about 20 m looking for a scrap. 69gn 223 pill under the chin just about decapitated him
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Mmmmm deer head soup, hope you didn't forget the Rosemary.......

Originally Posted by mawzer308

PB Red stag.

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Fantastic pic.

couple of tararuas bush stags,camped out with a mate for a couple of nights,he got his first bush animal.I sent him into a roarer which shut up 2 mins after moved in but a couple others started so I was hoping he would go for them,he did he went on about an hour stalk after one I couldn’t even hear but was replying real good to my roars so he stalked right into him and took him out.was super pumped.the bigger boy was going good by himself,ambushed from above never saw me coming.