Sneaking about as one is want to do on a late Friday arvo I headed into an area renowned for its blackberry bushes,hundreds of acres of them! Knowing that the deer are holed up in the impossible cover as usual but on quieter days come out at times with enough light left had me on my toes.

I saw a spikey up ahead of me and using a berry bush clump as cover I doubled up and moved up into the ambush zone, dwindling daylight didn't help me at all with slow shutter speed and high ISO resulting in ordinary pics,however as the subject is the elusive sambar stag they are 'acceptable'.
The spikey moved back into cover and an errant swirling breeze alerted a hind to my presence she was heading back to cover with this stag in attendance.They crossed in front of me and by rapidly firing off shots i got a few pics,many others I scrubbed as soon as I reviewed them as all the wrong cons buggered them.
Walking a little further i heard them going through a flooded section and coming around another berry bush I saw the stag ploughing through the water like a dozer with a bow wave on either side of him,I rued the missed pic opp there and then.

He is only a young stag but none the less shows the bulk his kind obtain..you can learn a lot about calibres and projectiles when you take these bigger deer.

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