Thread: Stags of 2013 roar, show em!

Hi Guys

Thanks for the comments.

Bush is very open red beech mostly, little pockets of braodleaf and quiet a biit of crown fern in parts. Pretty dry country hence the open bush.

It is steep in parts, actually shot this boy about 200 feet above the creek, on a wee terrace so not too bad to walk around, photo a bit decieving I guess.

Anyway a bloody good day, not the biggest but hopefully will taste good.

Way better than sitting on the couch!

Cheers

Dino

Originally Posted by Gutshot

Attachment 8796Attachment 8797 roared this 11 pointer out of the bush onto the bush edge, watched him roar twice in the fading light that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up before pulling the trigger.amazing animal, was really lucky to see him roar in front of me and something i will take to my grave. scored this nice arapawa ram on the same trip. stoked

Looks like a brilliant day Gutshot, well done mate................

Originally Posted by Dino

Shot yesterday in block 1 at Leithen Bush...sausages!Attachment 8942

cheers

Dino

Nice one Dino...

Originally Posted by Gutshot

Attachment 8796Attachment 8797 roared this 11 pointer out of the bush onto the bush edge, watched him roar twice in the fading light that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up before pulling the trigger.amazing animal, was really lucky to see him roar in front of me and something i will take to my grave. scored this nice arapawa ram on the same trip. stoked

Thats one very nice ram you have there.

Just heard from home my brother shot a 10 pointer with the .300WSM doesn't sound like a massive head he said it is nice though so I'm keen to see it will throw a pic on when I get one.

Only dumb thing is I had 20 rounds loaded up for the wsm had Amaxs with 760 smk's with 760 and amaxs with 2209 and accubonds with 2209. So 5 of each was going to test see which ones went the best he used them all shot the deer with smk but he said he shot the rest on goats out to 460m whatever his 460m is

Originally Posted by Toby

Just heard from home my brother shot a 10 pointer with the .300WSM doesn't sound like a massive head he said it is nice though so I'm keen to see it will throw a pic on when I get one.

Only dumb thing is I had 20 rounds loaded up for the wsm had Amaxs with 760 smk's with 760 and amaxs with 2209 and accubonds with 2209. So 5 of each was going to test see which ones went the best he used them all shot the deer with smk but he said he shot the rest on goats out to 460m whatever his 460m is

Big ups to him Toby. Tell him congrats for me

He must be stoked its his best head, bigger then mine too the little shit. He could of taken a better photo though.

That is probably a better photo than I would have taken Toby

He could of at least got the date right

Originally Posted by Dino

Shot yesterday in block 1 at Leithen Bush...sausages!Attachment 8942

cheers

Dino

Looks steeeeep! Well done Dino

Originally Posted by keen fella

10 pointer knocked over on Canterbury DOC land yesterday. Only roared once and then tried to sneek in on us.
Attachment 8499

Awesome spread mate. Nice work!

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.

I have been enjoying the forum stories and photos lately so thought I would post a couple of mine from my Tahr/Deer trip in April. Had a heap of great weather, there was a total fire ban in Mt Cook NP at the time, hard to imagine now.

That is mint graeme

Yeh well done Graeme.