Thread: Stags and Bucks 2024

Haha yea I did enjoy it. Even sold all the heads off rafters, proper clean out.

Originally Posted by Pongo12

Haha yea I did enjoy it. Even sold all the heads off rafters, proper clean out.
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HOLY FECK Do you know how many heads are hanging in the picture @Pongo12? Are they all wild/hunted deer?

Originally Posted by Pongo12

Haha yea I did enjoy it. Even sold all the heads off rafters, proper clean out.
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So does that mean your hunting spot is up for grabs? ��

Glad that's the reason @Pongo12. Was worried you cared about the haters. Get em next year

You guys can lust over those dead heads. That pile of wood excites me. Looks like Matai. Something that is like gold around here.

That was back a year or 2 ago. Think I sold 170 odd heads, yes all wild.
Yea thats a mix of maire, matai and totara, goes good

Originally Posted by Pongo12

Yea thats a mix of maire, matai and totara, goes good

I bet it does

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Originally Posted by Pongo12

Haha yea I did enjoy it. Even sold all the heads off rafters, proper clean out.
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Mother of god what is all holy and precious

If I managed to get 10% of this in my lifetime. I will die a happy camper.

hard antler going for what now$35-40 per kg..makes picking up cast jobbies worth the effort.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

You guys can lust over those dead heads. That pile of wood excites me. Looks like Matai. Something that is like gold around here.

It'll burn ya grate out

Originally Posted by Tahr

It'll burn ya grate out

Nothing a welder and some heavy duty crusher screen or such won't fix. In the days when Rata was plentiful here there were some "unique" looking fireplaces also.
But then fires places were made to last, not like these modern things that crap themselves after the first winter of burning native.

Sold a couple of sets of good antlers last yr.About $160 each,no good hanging in the garage collecting dust.Few more $$$ for diesel n bullets.

I wish I'd known that -I left those fallow antlers on the ground!

Couple of sika stags I shot in April.
A young 7 pointer with the bent nose gene.


And my PB sika. 30"wide & 28.5" long 10 pointer (two snags coming off the brow tines)(His skull is 10" long for reference).
I saw his massive rub tree a week before so new to target his spur. Luckily I caught him out just above the bush edge of his spur on last light.

A weak top on one side and well over spread will really penalise his score, but either way I'm stoked as he is by far the largest sika head I've seen on the hill!

The sambar stag I shot in January with the 223. 185m headshot (all I could see). I've posted this in the '223 on deer' thread previously.
29" long on the unbroken side and 29.5" spread.