Thread: STAGS SHOT 2021

It'd be nice to think some herd management could take effect in more places. But looking at the confirmed and proposed aerial 1080 for the Tararua ranges I wouldn't frown on any deer with antlers being tipped over there in the near future.

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Originally Posted by Sako851

What a beast

Which one......?

The amount of good animals been seen and shot this year has to be related to lack of hunting last roar due to COVID , amazing what a year of growth produces

Does bugger all damage to the population shooting stags but still animals getting culled, and it's bloody good fun. We hammer the hinds in the winter months, shitloads of them. So still a balance, id hate to see the numbers if we didn't, be over run

Originally Posted by Yesmate

Attachment 164676Attachment 164676yea we are still a bit quiet in the tararuas as well, hoping this weekend they launch into a frenzy.this small guy was holding hinds so we let him have it and bro got something serious.Attachment 164675

Great head!

Originally Posted by Yesmate

Attachment 164676Attachment 164676yea we are still a bit quiet in the tararuas as well, hoping this weekend they launch into a frenzy.this small guy was holding hinds so we let him have it and bro got something serious.Attachment 164675

That 'small guy' looks to have been an exceptional spiker and not a poor 2yr old.

Originally Posted by Ned

It'd be nice to think some herd management could take effect in more places. But looking at the confirmed and proposed aerial 1080 for the Tararua ranges I wouldn't frown on any deer with antlers being tipped over there in the near future.

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It can do a number on populations but not always. One of my major spots got hit last year. Still shit loads of stags in there. Stags are the least likely to die from ingesting that crap (not immune did find 3 dead velveties on the tops presumably from the drop as completely intact nothing removed). Hinds and fawns are far more susceptible though. For herd management I'd take 1080 over waro most days due to the targeted approach to WARO. If WARO targeted hinds (subsidised some how) however that would be the dream as it would actually make a significant difference to these high populations.

Originally Posted by Pongo12

Does bugger all damage to the population shooting stags but still animals getting culled, and it's bloody good fun. We hammer the hinds in the winter months, shitloads of them. So still a balance, id hate to see the numbers if we didn't, be over run

Good to hear you hit the hinds too. And yes I agree it doesn't effect the population by killing stags but the idea is to try keep the population under control and it definitely effects the number of mature stags.

But to give credit where its deserved if you are killing a tonne of hinds congrats as you definitely do more control than I have in the past (although in fairness I never shot stags unless its a pb or clearly a shitter ie no tops at all etc) and more than most.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

That 'small guy' looks to have been an exceptional spiker and not a poor 2yr old.

yea he is,here's a pic of another exceptional spiker shot in the area a couple of years ago.we shouldn't have shot him but this circumstance we decided to.

Originally Posted by Stocky

In fairness do you think choppers are relevant to the Pureoras?

Also shooting a heap of stags doesn't help with too many deer. Also choppers have hardly been working for 2 years. I dislike choppers as much as the next mainlander but they aren't really a current concern (except obviously they impact they have had from earlier on the number of mature stags).

Shooting poor stags does pureoras isn't the only place stags get shot plenty in the mainland to oxfords taken a good hammering from me over the years mt Thomas the Lewis not young animals just shit animals . Choppers might not be relevant to pureoras as far as aerial culls but I'm sure poison can still be flicked around? I'd made the decision not to take a stag this roar but maybe I should maybe 6 fallow kick em all in a gorge feed the eels what ever spins the wheels

Originally Posted by Kelton

Shooting poor stags does pureoras isn't the only place stags get shot plenty in the mainland to oxfords taken a good hammering from me over the years mt Thomas the Lewis not young animals just shit animals . Choppers might not be relevant to pureoras as far as aerial culls but I'm sure poison can still be flicked around? I'd made the decision not to take a stag this roar but maybe I should maybe 6 fallow kick em all in a gorge feed the eels what ever spins the wheels

Um what most of that is unreadable but I'll reply to what I can.

No shit young stags get shot Everywhere I just saw a guy shot 9 stags out of Lewis almost all young (too young to realistically assess quality unless you have a trained eye) and didn't take any meat or shoot any hinds...

Poison isn't used to control deer (I'm 99% certain it's illegal to directly target deer with 1080 (they can be bykill)) so numbers don't lead to poison it happens anyway.

Then your bragging about hammering stags and having a sook and threatening to go waste a bunch of deer and meat because someone brought up their opinion on a public forum. What a bloody ninny. I just brought up my POV. I didnt dictate what anyone can do I have no right too but I have every right to bring up the discussion with which anyone can do with as they wish. Hell I think you may find I openly said he's done more to control population that I have for sure. I just think its nice to leave stags to grow to the point they can mature as it makes a far better trophy (even the ones with poorer genes) that a rack of 50 plus toddlers hanging in the shed unappreciated.

Does it actually matter what anyone thinks when someone shoots an animal? Like who fn cares.
Keep up the pictures and the stories, some awesome animal’s being hung up.
Here’s another one. Today’s.
Not roaring but came down to me and said hello.
A well past his best 9 pointer.




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Originally Posted by Danny

Does it actually matter what anyone thinks when someone shoots an animal? Like who fn cares.
Keep up the pictures and the stories, some awesome animal’s being hung up.
Here’s another one. Today’s.
Not roaring but came down to me and said hello.
A well past his best 9 pointer.

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I think it does matter from the point that everyone wants to improve their knowledge and judgement of animals, to take an animal they have made a correct call on and to feel good about it. We cant learn without discussing animals that have been photographed. In this thread they are dead.
How did you access your nine to be well past his best ? He is well past anything now
The spiker in Yesmate's post above is exceptional as he says. Those spikers with big clean thick spikes like that are rare and always grow into big clean heads. Shooting the rubbish pencil thin spikers is doing the herds a favour long term. Just look how the Wap herd has improved with a couple of decades of 'Leave the best, shoot the rest' management.

Start another thread don't ruin this one.

Originally Posted by bigbear

Start another thread don't ruin this one.

Bloody oath, thats why I only chuck pics up every now and again. Too much dramas otherwise