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No luck in the thick of the roar but managed to bag this fella just before Anzac Day. Roared him in from about 400m out. Was holding a fair few hinds and spikers. Left a nice young 8 to replace him. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a16bad87ec.jpg
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Think twice taking a shot in the Ruahine… 602m shot turned into a 6h30 recovery…
Nice to meet you @Puffin
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man that looks STEEP...pity it hadnt rolled to bottom for you,looks like it was only a kick away from doing so.
Yeah mate would have probably bruised the meat though
dead meat doesnt bruise..... lol
Ok wrong word but Wouldn’t it damage the meat if rolled down few hundred meters?
A few bumps would soften up the rut meat.;)
Top three pics were from this last weekend, Tararua tops. First 12 I've actually seen, still buzzing!
Bottom fella was nelson lakes tops for the roar.
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Sometimes the scrub and bush is so dense it could be possible to lose it or it could get hung up on a tree top or some other nasty place which makes it even harder to get out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Mind you I would still through it over the cliff and take my chances.
not really.....we bash steak with meat hammer before cooking to break up fibres/release tension....a good roll down the hill might at worst break bones that cut stuff but havent had any issues when its happened to roll a long way myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by tibo
My best and only Sika stag for 2024 so far shot last Sunday. Shot at a distance of 10m with Brno 243 and Remington 100 grain.
Still trying to find that ellusive 8 pointer.
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Bella and an average one just recently. He still had that musky rutting smell.
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Ah the mighty Brno!!
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Had a cracker year so far, a really nice fellow buck and a pretty decent red. Both shot at 500y with the same gun in the same gulley 3 weeks apart. Funny how that happens, right place right time for these ones thats for sure
What a bugger he broke one!
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Attachment 252134 he's an old boy, definitely going back.but was shot bush stalking with a good mate so means a lot .
He's heavy bodied.Quote:
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Nice one MD. Makes the days outing memorable. Congrats.Quote:
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Well done for a June hunt MD.
Great stuff MD, well earned
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Hi all
I have posted this pic on the forum before, however I thought I had shot a young up and coming sika when I get him aged from his jaw it turns out he is 10.3 years old. Don't feel so bad now. He was single calling every 5 mins for a couple of hours and was camped a few meters into the manuka. I go close, about 10m and gave a single call followed by a mew and he came in fast, looked at me over some scrub and got an extra nostril from the trebly. The other stag pictured I got last year a few hundred meters away, interesting head with the trey tines turned down rather the normal upwards turn, he was aged at 9.3 years.Attachment 253902
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Do you think the downward points are an age thing or something in the breeding?
Maybe he was trying the "rainbow thing" out for size?Quote:
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Not sure he knows his pronouns? I guess it is more than likely a genetic cause for the tines to be turned down. It makes for an interesting trophy on the wall. Both stags were shot in the Harkness Valley and would probably travelled there for the roar. The recent collar research indicates the stags do target feed areas for the time outside of the roar - mid march to mid May. One collared stag travelled about 16 km to his rutting ground in the eastern Kaweka Range then followed his trail back to Poronui at the end of the roar. Some stags stay on location, my hunting buddy shot one of the DOC collared stags at Harkness 6 years after he was captured, he had a brass tag in his ear. I have his full tracking records and he stayed local, and was past his peak when taken, but still an 8 pointer.Attachment 253914Attachment 253915
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Marlborough stag, passed up on a few deer during the roar searching for a stag but never found it, good to get some meat on the ground
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What was the nunber on his ear tag..... @craigc got a hind in the Kaweka a few years ago with a tag. DOC Hawke's Bay could probably tell you where it was tagged and released.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruger7mm
Hamish
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He was number 28 and the map below shows his capture location and his movements from March to November. Stag was shot SW of high point 1344.
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From the weekend before last. Fallow buck that was still running with some does in the ranges.
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Nice one. Looks like he's been working hard.Quote:
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thats a good buck well done
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A small 8pt Sika I shoot a couple of Fridays ago.
I needed to get the dog out for a stalk in the bush as he hadn't had any work since start of May.
So an easy close to the vehicle overnighter was decided.
We got onto deer everywhere we looked but couldn't get a shot due to the swirly breeze.
This guy got unlucky as we stalked through the bush along a drop off. The dog indicating solidly to our close right, turns out the deer was to our front but the wind swirl was confusing the direction.
I shot the stag in the eye at 16m. 260rem 120gr gold dot. Smashed the skull but I glued it together at home.
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good eye ball shot.He didn't go 20.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roarless20
That’s a very nice Rusa, you must be happy with him, they don’t come easy as a rule.
Can't be too far off the farmland with gorse like that around. I grew up in Galatea right below the hills.Quote:
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