Thread: How to sight in a rifle - the right way

I have seen many wapiti/red crosses in HB but I'm quite certain this guy was straight red eh, no wap earlier in the line. He had minimal white creeping onto his back and just looked like, well, a big deer!

Thanks for the info been very cool seeing so many deer lately and discovering the differences in them. Still.....the elusive Sika has yet to see the inside of my shed

Originally Posted by Dougie

I have seen many wapiti/red crosses in HB but I'm quite certain this guy was straight red eh, no wap earlier in the line. He had minimal white creeping onto his back and just looked like, well, a big deer!

Thanks for the info been very cool seeing so many deer lately and discovering the differences in them. Still.....the elusive Sika has yet to see the inside of my shed

Every deer does look different in one way or another! Those two do look very red, and strictly speaking are red deer. However these days there are not many "handy" hunting areas in NZ, especially in the vicinity of farmed deer (within 50 odd kms) that you can absolutely guarantee the herd is not influenced in some way by farmed genetics. You'd probably be pretty surprised where x-bred deer turn up. Not a bad thing tho.

Originally Posted by JoshC

You'd probably be pretty surprised where x-bred deer turn up. Not a bad thing tho.

My friend lost a few years back when some wankers(presumably "hunters") cut his deer fence close to his DOC boundery.
He got most of them back but about a month later got a call from someone who had shot one and tracked him down via the tag, it had gone 34km as the crow flys and probably 10 times that distance over ground.

it puzzled me as to why she would have done that, there is a wild population on his property and prime habitat and also prime habitat threw national park,then farm then national park all the way to the farm it was shot on.