Thread: The double whammy, Stag 1 and Stag 2

With the weather looking pretty good I decided to go for a hunt after work Wednesday evening, I raced home got my gears and headed to one of my spots, having a sneaky look at an open stream bed that usually has a bit of sign, I soon saw the ass end of a deer out in the open about 100yards out, resting against a tree I couldn’t see anything other than its backside, I waited for an opportunity which came fairly soon as the deer moved to the left just enough to expose its shoulder, squeezing the trigger of the trusty single shot and “Boomf…..Thud” the deer dropped like liquid, I quickly pulled out the spent shell and loaded another round, more out of habit than anything else, as I reloaded I saw another deer stretched out like a race horse making for the bush edge about 60-70 yards away, the “ahh f##k it” mind set kicked in and I lined up the fleeing deer, I gave it a slight lead and let rip, that all too familiar sound “thump” let me know the bullet had made contact just as it reached the safety of the bush.
I had a fair bit of work ahead of me but with today off work I decided to come back in the morning for the second deer, it wasn’t a huge carry out but I didn’t feel like being out well after dark when I could take my time today with the second one. I went and found where they both dropped to discover they were both stags that have shed their antlers, nice one I thought, this should top the freezer off quite well. The deep freeze is just about chocker now so I can relax and focus on other things for the next couple of months, perhaps a bit of surf casting.



Back home and ready for the clean up, back wheels and a bag chocker with back and eye steaks.

Nice one.

Tinny bugger!

Nice one! I bet you were stoked with the second running one.

Its a shame they had something missing off their head

Tararuas again? Love the begara

Originally Posted by Rusky

Nice one! I bet you were stoked with the second running one.

I was more pleased about nailing it as it was going hell for leather so was a tricky shot.

Missing things on their heads..never really been into trophy's, its all meat to me, it would need to be a pretty amazing looking rack these days for me to bother carrying out the head as well.

Originally Posted by scoped

Tararuas again? Love the begara

Nah mate not this time.

Originally Posted by Phill243

Its a shame they had something missing off their head

Why?
Every hind I’ve shot for meat was similar.

Great result oneshot, double up's good.....

I guess your right it's good to see your using the meat. Some people just shoot Stags for the heads but that's not good either. I shoot yearlings or spikers for meat this time of year but that's just me

Good work

Originally Posted by Phill243

I guess your right it's good to see your using the meat. Some people just shoot Stags for the heads but that's not good either. I shoot yearlings or spikers for meat this time of year but that's just me

Im actually a bit of a softie, I don't like to shoot hinds in the spring, even though they wont be dropping fawns till around December I "TRY" to avoid killing pregnant hinds if I can, the only indication I had of these being stags was body size which after shooting them confirmed what I suspected. yearlings are number one targets for me, but I'll gladly drop a stag, velvet, cast or hard antler.

Fair call. I agree with you I'm a softie too I won't shoot any hind incase she's pregnant . Yea I suppose a stags good anytime isn't it. I haven't had the chance to many stags . Last time I took a mate out for his first deer we spotted a stag and I said u can have it it's only a 6 pointer . Well he shot it at it turned out to be a nice little ten pointer haha . I all ways run into spikers myself I shot a yearling spiker couple days ago in the ruahines