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Thread: Stags and Bucks 2024

  1. 13-08-2024, 06:29 PM #241
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    Quote Originally Posted by stagslayer 12 View Post
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    Need a quesstimate, 160-165 Ds
    And Rumpy, it looks more like Micky ducks fave wallaby spot.
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  3. 15-08-2024, 10:36 AM #242
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    Quote Originally Posted by john m View Post
    Nothing special but taken with a rifle that's special to me.

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    I love it. What cartridge and rifle?
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  4. 15-08-2024, 05:34 PM #243
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    Carl have a look in the Magazine under Notes for old codgers page 3.
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    I HATE gorse.dirty mongrel bastard of a weed. Lovely stag.
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  6. 15-08-2024, 08:19 PM #245
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    about 1.5ks back from farmedge, patches of gorse scattered in pockets further back, that place has every prickly bastard tree in NZ waiting for ya if ya take the wrong ridge back to the farm, a delightful mix of 4m high blackberry, with hawthorn hedge + gorse thrown in to top off .... the rusa love the blackberry
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  7. 16-08-2024, 08:09 AM #246
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    Quote Originally Posted by john m View Post
    Carl have a look in the Magazine under Notes for old codgers page 3.
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    Thanks, will do
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  8. 16-08-2024, 10:29 PM #247
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    Quote Originally Posted by stagslayer 12 View Post
    about 1.5ks back from farmedge, patches of gorse scattered in pockets further back, that place has every prickly bastard tree in NZ waiting for ya if ya take the wrong ridge back to the farm, a delightful mix of 4m high blackberry, with hawthorn hedge + gorse thrown in to top off .... the rusa love the blackberry
    You forgot to mention the stinging nettle, especially bad up the northern end around the Ohutu.
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  9. 17-08-2024, 06:13 PM #248
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    Quote Originally Posted by RUMPY View Post
    You forgot to mention the stinging nettle, especially bad up the northern end around the Ohutu.
    Stinging nettle is bad in some areas up there huh, i hunt Galatea alot and it's rare to go a day without getting stung.
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    I saw my first shedded stag of the season a few days ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    I saw my first shedded stag of the season a few days ago.
    Does that mean he was probably the biggest in the area?
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    Quote Originally Posted by RUMPY View Post
    Does that mean he was probably the biggest in the area?
    More age than head size I think. But its those ones that get to be big.
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    Big boys on farms have dropped.
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    Not often i get to squeeze the trigger these days, shot this stag on day 2 of a 9 day backpack hunt, public land. Very chuffed

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    Looks like that pack needed some blood on it Well done!

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