Thread: Stags of 2013 roar, show em!

Originally Posted by Pointer

Still rips the undies losing one, especially as he was the best stag of the lot, and had let the rest walk to shoot him. nice even 12, Not heavy timber but long and well formed.

Still feeling sorry for myself as I have no one else to blame but I. I rushed the shot and I think I hit him too low in the shoulder to stop him. He swam a river that took me an hour to get over, and spent another 3 looking for sign to see where he left the clearing. No sign and having had a swim moments prior, no blood trial. Where is the dog when you need him?

Unlucky mate, did you best to track him by the sounds....

Originally Posted by Pointer

Still rips the undies losing one, especially as he was the best stag of the lot, and had let the rest walk to shoot him. nice even 12, Not heavy timber but long and well formed.

Still feeling sorry for myself as I have no one else to blame but I. I rushed the shot and I think I hit him too low in the shoulder to stop him. He swam a river that took me an hour to get over, and spent another 3 looking for sign to see where he left the clearing. No sign and having had a swim moments prior, no blood trial. Where is the dog when you need him?

I lost a beaut Sika stag in the eastern Kawekas a few years ago. He was on the run and I was leading him patiently... Wait... Wait... Now! Boom! Fuck! A manuka at just the wrong second filled my scope. He kept running seeming unphased. For the first time ever, my bolt jammed. I smacked it open, losing time and was about to unleash a second shot when he disappeared into scrub. Gutted, but still in disbelief he hadn't dropped with a well placed .308 slug, I had a quick search. Too dark and couldn't see any blood
Back at camp, I relived it many times and was adamant I must have connected, so my mate convinced me to go back and search in the morning. Blood trail!! Good dark blood in smallish leaf smears for about thirty metres, then nothing. We searched methodically in ever increasing circles for around three hours but it was as if he'd grown wings and flown away, or lifted an emergency escape hatch and vanished.

Heart breaking and unforgettable.

Just got a report of a 17 a 14 and a twelve coming out of hast somewhere.

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Mate just got a nice 11 out of pureora. Went to pick up his quad and got a hind on the road 200meters away from his bike good bit of bone and a freezer filler . Hind was one of seven

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Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

Mate just got a nice 11 out of pureora. Went to pick up his quad and got a hind on the road 200meters away from his bike good bit of bone and a freezer filler . Hind was one of seven

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Nice. Got a photo?

Working onnit as we speak

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Unfortunately I just spent another fruitless night and day in the bush at Minginui. That place is quieter than a library. I have no idea whether it is all over or they haven't started yet

Originally Posted by Rushy

Unfortunately I just spent another fruitless night and day in the bush at Minginui. That place is quieter than a library. I have no idea whether it is all over or they haven't started yet

Apparantly it was all on last week tues weds thurs went off. Im back out for five days end of the week. Not worried if its over i know where they are. If it is iver they will be hungry

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[QUOTE=Rushy;104029]Unfortunately I just spent another fruitless night and day in the bush at Minginui. That place is quieter than a library. I have no idea whether it is all over or they haven't started yet[/QUOT

Bad news Rushy, but like lotto you have got to be in to win.....

You're shitting me. Friday night / Saturday morning you could have heard a pin drop. Good skills catching up with them.

Sorry if i misslead you dude. Ive been going out pureora it was locals tellin me they were going off over here during the week.

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Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

Sorry if i misslead you dude. Ive been going out pureora it was locals tellin me they were going off over here during the week.

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No worries. How was Pureora?

I dropped this 11 pointer up the hunter valley on Tuesday morning. Somehow I managed to end up in the photo's as well.

We managed to get him worked up enough to come running through the bush at us. He stopped 40 yards away side on, I couldn't have asked for a better shot.

He was a scrappy old bugger, one of his brow tines is broken off, most of his tines have chips or scrape marks and he had scars all over his head, neck and back.

There was a bigger stag in there somewhere but we were unable to get onto him. we lost a big 12 pointer as well but that's another story.

all up we heard over 10 separate stags roaring over the 3 nights we were in there, pity the trip was so short.

As a side note those AJ productions game callers with an AMP work like magic.

Few about. Mate scored a few days after i left. Lots of pigs.

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A little bit of regret with the younger animals but we live and learn. And they taste good