Thread: Stags and Bucks 2025

Originally Posted by thatguy

Was he roaring/coming in?

Nah, no roaring heard

Ignore the ugly mug in the picture... The joys of hunting make it hard to take decent pictures.
Personal best chanois coming in at just over 9.5 inches.

All of these are super cool, can’t wait to see the rest of what shows up over the next several weeks

Heard a few hee haws, single calls and a red roar yesterday morning. Managed to knock this guy over with my 7mm SAUM when he popped out at 645metres.

Cracker!!!

Solid head. Well done.

Whopper, lucky lucky dog.

That’s very nice indeed

Goldie looking on and happy.

Nice animal.
How long?

Wow, ripper Sika.

Originally Posted by stagstalker

Heard a few hee haws, single calls and a red roar yesterday morning. Managed to knock this guy over with my 7mm SAUM when he popped out at 645metres.

Perfect shape head how long was it? Cheers


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Real quick measure on length has him at roughly 26.5”. He’s lacking some overall length and width and really should have been left to try grow another year or two. Two more years he would have been a sika show stag. He had a big body and I guessed him slightly older from distance before the shot so my mistake. Ahwell, he’s dead now - still stoked with him.

Shot this stunning pre-roar stag last Friday. After 17.5km and 1500 vertical meters in the tops the day before, I came back to the hut down in the valley. I woke up early and went for a walk to a clearing on the bush edge when this guy stepped out following a couple of hinds. I was very surprised to see a deer of this quality down there as I'd only seen small deer there for the last year or so.

(by the way I have a question about euro mount sealing products on this thread if anyone has any tips - thanks! https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....7/#post1666109)

After purchasing my first magnum - 300 win mag 18 months ago, agonising over load dev to get an accurate load to meet expectation and a lot of practice at the range at distance, took the rifle up into the kawekas and got my first sika stag at 613 yds - stoked!