Thread: STAGS SHOT 2021

17 cars is a South Island crowd.. theres road ends in the Kawekas that have that pretty regularly year round. But 17 for the kiwiburn seems like a hell of a lot.

Another tonight from central otago

Nice Buck you have there @Padox

Originally Posted by hebe

17 cars is a South Island crowd.. theres road ends in the Kawekas that have that pretty regularly year round. But 17 for the kiwiburn seems like a hell of a lot.

Yeah a lot of pressure up there aye, most cars I've seen was 25 in the ti iringa carpark. Yeah I was surprised when I heard that. No one in the carpark where I was in the weekend.

very impressive brow tines on that buck. Cool

Another one from Southland from my second trip of the roar.. I passed up a few obviously young ones with potential before spotting this one holding a few hinds in some bluffs about 1km from my camp. He was easily a third bigger in body size than any other stag that was trying to steal his hinds.
I watched him for two days through the binos and my Nikon P1000 before deciding to have a better look and eventually pulled the trigger once I’d gotten there..

I wanted an older master type stag and while I’m happy with my decision to take him, I’m not sure that I assessed his age properly and I’d like some opinions on his age?

Some background. He was living out in the tussock and scrub. The area where he was living was well chewed out, I’ve never seen deer damage like it.
His body was in shit condition, he looked skinny through the guts but had a heavy front half of his body so I assumed he was older and had just been rutting for a while. He’d gone orange under the skin and looked like this had been going on for a while.. The pedicles while not super high on the skull weren’t overly big in diameter and timber wasn’t much to speak of.

Any guesses on age?
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last chance roar hunt for me,he wasnt roaring but still following hinds around.

Nice tops on him. Well done

What a day to remember, lost for words really. Riley shot his first stag, an 8 point Sika in some very trying conditions, patience was key and it all payed off!!

Outstanding that’s a picture and memory to treasure. Well done Dad

Last night.

Originally Posted by mawzer308

What a day to remember, lost for words really. Riley shot his first stag, an 8 point Sika in some very trying conditions, patience was key and it all payed off!!

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What a great first stag! They don't get much better than that.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Last night.

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Will it go 200 Ds nice buck

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Originally Posted by NRT

Will it go 200 Ds nice buck

NBNY

Some certainty that the lack of last years roar hunting due to covid 19 pandemic was really good for the Stags!

Alot got that one more year older and it shows by this Thread!!

which is what happened with the WAR back in the day on the Otago herd, but the war kept people out of the hills a little longer than the Coverdup19 so there was some stock of great size.

nice to see what stock has been shot up this year ha haaa