Thread: Dumped 17 pointer

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Agreed.. I definitely call myself more of a trophy hunter over a meat hunter. The adrenaline and excitement of chasing down a maganificent trophy that I may only get one chance to have a crack at. I can shoot a hind/nanny any time, it isn't really a challenge and doesn't create near the same level of excitement.

At the same time my freezer is full all throughout the year from the occasion hind or nanny that I shoot. My last trip I carried out 2 sika hinds, 4 legs and both sets of backsteaks for 8 hours in the Thunderbolt tops. Enough meat to last me the next 12 months.

Rest of the year I am all out targeting trophy bull tahr & stags. Each to their own.

I love the excitement of the roar. Nothing like seeing stags going nuts. Never felt much urge to actually shoot one in the act though. I use my rifle for self defense while I try to get them as mad at me as possible. Then I eat one of their hinds.

As you say, each to their own.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I'd be worried if I were you @hotsoup. Four legs and back steaks will be enough meat for twelve months? You're practically a vegetarian at that rate.

obviously a topup mate @7mmwsm

In Post #30 - his first on this thread - Wingman insulted trophy hunters deliberately by accusing them of doing it to feel "manly'. Then later was asking everyone to stop insulting people who only shoot for meat, even though the only person who had insulted anyone was him.

Now, I have never in my life come across the carcass of a stag that was minus its head with no meat taken. Every hunter I know who would have a head mounted will take the head and the meat, and do a hell of a lot more hard work getting home than any meat shooter. If you want to be the complete hunter, you have to take the meat and the head.

A meat shooter just reduces an animal to food. This was the worst insult the Maori had. But a man who understands a trophy head gets the meat and the head, and a deeper meaning.

Not realy sure where this is going but .
Your comment CH got my half brain working in regards to seeing or finding dead deer minus only their head.
Over many years I have been in the position to see quite a few indeed with only their head gear removed. There were a lot of so called cullers who if the opportunity popped up would be damn quick to drop a decent head,remove the tail,head and carry on,done it myself on occasion.
Waste never popped into ones nut,never. On many occasions also a culler would remove a cracker head then hang it in the fork of a tree for recovery at a later date,then forget to or later say na..bugger the head and leave it.
That sort of carry on was going on CH when you were a hell of a lot younger,hence why you don't find any today eh.
On the whole cullers were only after tokens and maybe one back steak or hind wheel for a change of diet.
I'm am surprised that other worldly things don't pop up on private land.

From a different angle I think more in terms of respect for the animal when its alive, and its more the things I dont do. Dont shoot hinds or does over the fawning season, don't guess ranges, dont go for head shots, ( with odd exception) dont use cartridges that arnt up to the job, dont shoot if I can get closer, never walk away so I could brag about shooting a deer at xxx yds, dont do anything that decreases the chance of a quick death. Well thats what I try and aspire to anyway. Once the animal is dead it wont care what happens with its remains. Putting some romantic spin of "respect" on it once youve put a bullet through its organs it is a somewhat hypocritical human trait and matters not to the dead animal at your feet. But if it makes you feel better about having kilied it then do what sits best.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

If you want to be the complete hunter, you have to take the meat and the head.

Hard being the complete hunter eh CH ?

If I was a long way from the truck and had to chose between taking the meat or the head I would chose the meat any day

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

If I was a long way from the truck and had to chose between taking the meat or the head I would chose the meat any day

For sure mate and it's become very trying just to get the meat back regardless of distance,2 trips most of the time for this old bugger.

Originally Posted by doinit

Hard being the complete hunter eh CH ?

Just me and you buddy.