Thread: STAGS SHOT 2021

Thats a great photo Tahr , one you will cherish in the years to come

Originally Posted by Stocky

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.

Pretty much met in the middle my point is each to their own as it is yours

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

And absolutely punctuation missed the bus on that tangent.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Here's a mature one from last Friday that's well past its best. It's 72.
The deer is a spiker.

Super gave me a good chuckle



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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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holy smoke thats a solid body on that boy....definately a character head..THANKYOU for shareing it with us.

That bottom malform stag is very cool.

Couple of character Sika stags, both shot on Thursday. Sika definitely in full swing where I am.

Originally Posted by matto1234

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Is the right antler on the top stag a bit deformed? Good character stag on the bottom wonder if it's a skull injury or genetic.

Originally Posted by mawzer308

Couple of character Sika stags, both shot on Thursday. Sika definitely in full swing where I am.

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What a run of character heads do you have another veiw of his left?

Originally Posted by Stocky

Is the right antler on the top stag a bit deformed? Good character stag on the bottom wonder if it's a skull injury or genetic.

If the pedicle is normal it is generally damage during velvet growth that causes a mis-shapen antler, not a genetic fault.
The big old Red a couple of posts up appears to have broken his pedicle in the past ( normally fighting), the pedicle having re-set in a dropped position due to the weight of the attached antler at the time. Subsequent antlers growing out of that pedicle being at a funny angle. A great trophy

Originally Posted by Stocky

Is the right antler on the top stag a bit deformed? Good character stag on the bottom wonder if it's a skull injury or genetic.

Yup both good animals now out of the herd, likely both are injurys but out of the gene pool regardless.

Hey fellas, top animal, was missing his rear left hock below the joint, highly likely the reason for poor right side antler. Would've been really nice if he was matching on the poor side.

Other stag I'm I'm guessing genetics as I saw a younger stag with similar head gear likely his progeny.

Picked up an eight at Easter

Picked up this wee guy as well. Has a 50cal ball and a 7mm08 slug in him, didn`t want him getting away.