Thread: It's that time again... Sambar Rut

Holy Crap!! Look at the size of the hind quarters on the new Kid..
You may have to do some back stretches and Yoga moves,
before you try lugging something that size out, Mooseman.

Yep, we usually only shoot these big boys if they are close to the road and down hill, dragging 160-200 kg uphill even with a couple of you ain't going to happen. The last stag I shot on Anzac Day we ended up cutting him up and ferrying him out in pieces. We will obviously take a shot at a good stag no matter where he is and then cut him up to get him out.

Well today was a good day for stalking/ camera checking , no wind overcast and cool with rain in the forecast and despite all this Beeman and I both never even spooked an animal today. We did get the Big 10 point Red going past one camera and several other deer and pigs. PD the focus of our attention at the moment turned up at one of the wallows and stood there for the video, man is he a nice animal, one anyone would be proud of. I sure hope he doesn't die being chewed by pig dogs like another stag we seen taken a few weekends back.
The areas both of us hunted this arvo were ploughed up with red sign and despite everything being good for the hunt nothing was seen, must be night feeders.

You’ll catch up with them sooner or later Brian

Nice to hear from you Rod. We sure hope to get a look at him soon he is one cracker of a stag. The Video we got last weekend was fantastic. Have to have a talk on the land line soon, away this week chasin coons so will ring you shortly.

Sorry @Mooseman couldn't email these to you, bloody computers and email. Here they BEE. You put a story with them.

Great tops!!!

Shit yes. Bloody awesome looking head. Very unique

Looks look PD

Sure is Gibo, ,this weekend just gone we checked most of the camera's and along with another average size Sambar Stag we got PD on four different camera's. The picture above is on a new spot within his normal range that Beeman found last time we checked out the area. It's on a rut pad and a preaching tree and the resulting pictures are truly amazing ….he is one big sucker.
Kevin was at one camera at 8.50am and the deer had triggered it at 7.38 am so not to far behind. Two of the camera's I check had PD as well but in both instances be was a bit camera shy and bolted when the video kicked in.
It's pretty frustrating chasing a stag like this especially when you know he is close but you can't quite get the stars to align and manage to get a look at him let alone a shot at him.
That is what makes hunting so rewarding as when you finally do ( if ever) take a stag like this you have earned it.
The rut is in full swing judging by the rut pads in use so we may still have a chance , will keep you posted.

Good luck. Hope you are the guys to get him definitely have put in the work

Yeah @Gibo and hopefully he doesn't get chewed up and mauled by the doggers. We bee hunting hard out.

Looks good will have to get up sometime

That would be cool Rod, been a while since you hunted up North, bit different to the wide open spaces of the South. ( mind you, there is some thick stuff down there.)

With the weekend just gone being the first time we have checked most the camera's for three weeks due to possum op's so we were real keen to see what had been about. Both the camera's on wallows had over 200 triggers with some good footage of our target stag PD. PD also turned up on 5 other camera's so he had been busy tracking around his territory. Lots of Redskins as well with one mob of 7 Hinds and yearlings with a spiker.
A new Sambar stag also turned up and we got him on about 4 camera's and most the time he got up and did some awesome preaching, amazing how those big stags can get up on their hind legs and rub there scent glands under there eyes as high as they can reach.
So no luck on PD but good to see he is still dodging the doggers which have been busy up there as well. We got a few different lots of dogs going past camera's so they are a real threat to the sambar.
We will be after him again next weekend weather permitting.