I never learned to butcher worth a damn - my turn to be jealous :)
Liked On: 19-01-2023, 08:49 PM
you will have to show me mate......except we too quick on the knives and beast is broken down before we blink LOL.... terrible delema having to push each other out of the way,like two lions fighting...
Liked On: 19-01-2023, 08:41 PM
Greetings All, Driving up to Taupo this morning I was surprised to see 3 Sika standing in the wide grassy area between the pines and the road on SH5. No this was not at some ungodly hour in the...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 08:57 PM
Thanks, definitely not something I think I’d repeat. That said I’ve started using walking poles and now get no joint pain with heavy packs. I walked the same route last year with no meat but no poles...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:07 PM
Anyone dedicated enough to carry 50kg meat through 1000 altitude meters, probably has enough substance of character to make good judgment on their own level of ethics around which animals to take or...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:07 PM
fawns arent good eating..they are AWESOME eating....
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:07 PM
you UTALISED the meat......that gets the big tick in my book. I end up shooting (yes dannyb and missing) more hinds than stags something like 4;1 but thats not planned,its just I must normally be...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:07 PM
Better to shoot them than hinds between Nov 20th and Feb 10th when they have a fawn at foot that will just starve to death.
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:05 PM
Good on you for asking the question. If you've done the work to have the deer in your sights then it's your decision, based on your ethics. There will be no shortage of stags on public land for those...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:05 PM
In direct answer to your question, neither animal will make a future trophy so you can have a clean conscience for taking them. The spiker is late and will always be small even as a mature animal....
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:03 PM
given what deer numbers are like at the moment, shoot whatever. given the price of meat at the supermarket: shoot whatever
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:02 PM
Nothing wrong with that. You may find this interesting. I was talking to a old hunter recently and he said one of his regrets was not shooting younger stags more. He said the many scrubby 6 and 8...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:02 PM
You fulfilled your obligation to yourself, you shot two and recovered all the meat to fill your freezer.. As you have said, two was too much so next time, take one for the freezer. As Shearer stated...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:01 PM
Second year hunting; shoot anything you can carry. Worry about being a grumpy old man once you’ve shoot 100! Honestly you did the right thing. There’s miles to many deer around, they’re better in...
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:01 PM
Its a deer,shoot it and fill your freezer.
Liked On: 18-01-2023, 01:01 PM