Thread: Stags shot 2017

Originally Posted by HNTMAD

hey Crew, 7 days spent chasing sika and this is my effort, should score well i think
Attachment 67924

Fairly light timber on that one but classic shape and point position, the colour will add a few points also

Originally Posted by Dundee

They were back early as the wind was a strong NW not ideal for the Northern end.

I got up there at about 4pm tonight. Saw an 8 pointer with a couple of hinds and a fawn. He wasn't roaring but was giving them the sniff. Took a few rough pics and left them to it.
A wallow I looked at hasn't be used for a while so it looks like its over for a year.

And yeah, it was windy.

Lucky getting the farmland,the boys have packed up and gone into the mid Ruahines past Snee Rd but the weather doesn't look good. Did the wind change to SE in the arvo @Tahr ?

Originally Posted by Dundee

Lucky getting the farmland,the boys have packed up and gone into the mid Ruahines past Snee Rd but the weather doesn't look good. Did the wind change to SE in the arvo @Tahr ?

Yes I am lucky to have this access. Thats the bush edge on the left hand of the pic. It goes up to the Reserve. Those deer came out at about 5pm. I spotted them as they came down a spur in the bush. The wind was a stiff N/W all of the time.

Pointer , LOC I've that moose book "Mr Moose" think it's called that, will have a look in there. I know that the last one shot was by a guy called Francis....which was a female. The photo that was in the book shows the hunter looking rather dejected beside a very large cow.
Awesome history there LOC. always wanted to have a good look for one down there.
There was a huge Wap head that used to hang in the Christchurch airport. Not sure who shoot that one but it was a bloody monster!
Thanks for posting that pic.
Was that Eddies hat?

Couple of my heads off to the taxidermist today.

Good stuff. A roar to remember by the looks of it.

Shit hot @Monk


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Originally Posted by LOC

three bulls shot, two by my wife's great grandfather Eddie Herrick. all the family have left is that bull moose and an absolute donkey wapiti (and a few African heads). he shot a pair of waps right beside each other and i'd love to know where these are now and get them reunited... i think quite a few heads were gifted to Lindisfarne College which was his old homestead before it was a school and maybe Hastings deerstalkers
i've read his old diaries and checked out all the maps which her gran still has. quite cool stuff.
sorry for the diversion off topic

Pretty sure theres a few good heads from both Eddie Herrick and Percy Lyes in the Hastings NZDA hall.

Originally Posted by TeRei

https://youtu.be/4GbU0STHPs0

Very nice, thanks for posting.

2 night, 1 of 2 seen

Very nice heads Monk, well Done been a good roar for you then.

Originally Posted by Monk

Couple of my heads off to the taxidermist today.Attachment 67985

Two beautiful heads there, well done.

My two pointer wasn't roaring but still bloody good fun