NitroX
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Aussie & South Pacific Red Deer Photo Thread
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RED DEER PHOTOS
Aussies, Kiwis and hunters visiting the South Pacific.
Post your red deer photos here.
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NitroX
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| 16/03/10 04:24 AM |
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My first ever trophy deer. A red stag from central North Island in New Zealand in 1993.
From this thread.
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NitroX
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| 16/03/10 04:34 AM |
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More red deer.
From this thread.
| bouldersmith |
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| 19/04/10 08:24 AM |
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Taken with David Musgrave from South Pacific Hunters, a truly free range stag and one hell of a hunt. I will be Joining David next year for some fun in the top end of Australia.
| MickGibbo |
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| 04/05/10 02:27 PM |
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My Reds from this season
17 Point Red Deer NSW
12 Point Red Deer NSW
| Ben |
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| 04/05/10 08:32 PM |
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Great stags, Michael. Well-done.
| CarlsenHighway |
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| 06/05/10 10:03 PM |
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Fifteen pointer I got two weeks ago (Fiordland)
| gryphon |
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| 07/05/10 04:33 AM |
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Now that Fiordland stag is right up there for tough hunting ,well done to you CH.
I had a bloke at home only last night after his third trip into Fiordland and he was telling about the place first hand...tough is all I can say.
| Ben |
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| 07/05/10 07:00 AM |
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Well-done, CH. What are the specs on your rifle?
| CarlsenHighway |
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| 07/05/10 07:54 AM |
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Gryphon, yes, it can be difficult country, the bush can be thick and wet and the open tops rugged. Real wilderness, and the weather changes every other hour. The kind of place where if you dont take a locater beacon people look at you funny nowadays.
The 15 pointer in the first photograph I had been stalking for the last four years. I was well pleased with that.
Ben, I have been through a few. The BLR is a .308 and that stag was shot with a fogged useless scope at 10 yards and the rifle had a broken extracter...The ZG47 I dont own anymore, but had a wonderful piece of walnut on it and shot very well. The barrel had been cut down too short for me though so I sold it. Sigh...I should have kept it really.
Currently I am running a Harrington and Richardson made Mauser actioned 7x57 from 1984 with a great figured walnut stock. I have yet to hunt with it as I just got it the other week, plan to be out with it next month...I rate the 7x57 very highly. And for close bush hunting, round nose bullets in this caliber are devastating.
| gryphon |
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| 07/05/10 11:56 AM |
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WET? Mate said they had 400 mm of rain in the ten days he was there recently.
I had DBB`s books out last night looking at the old fellas that pioneered that country,remarkable men too.
Lots of modern hunters dont care for it and want their Waps out of a pen...BIG difference ,so good onya whether the stag is a red or a Wap coming out of there is a super trophy.
| MickGibbo |
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| 10/05/10 11:25 AM |
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Well done, also just had 2 friends come back who said the weather was extremely wet and the country was unforgiving, congratulations on a nice stag.
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NitroX
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| 03/11/10 04:36 AM |
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Competition entries for the Save raffle ticket totalled and now closed for this thread.
Ladies and Gentlemen, thanks for joining in.
However please post more photos if you wish.
| HendrikNZ |
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My NZ stag from the 2009 roar with Chris from http://www.hawea-hunting.co.nz/
| gryphon |
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| 21/12/10 09:46 AM |
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Ah H! Glad to see you made it mate.
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NitroX
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| 21/05/11 03:03 PM |
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Blacks Posted:
Here's my red from South Australia, 2008. 13 point, 40" long, 36" wide. Taken with a Browning A-Bolt .30/06 from about 140 yards at dawn.
Cheers
blacks
Re-posted from the European Red Deer thread. NitroX
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NitroX
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| 21/05/11 03:05 PM |
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Very nice Tim.
| blacks |
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| 21/05/11 11:01 PM |
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Thanks John, and thanks for shifting it to the right thread!
blacks
| tophet1 |
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| 22/05/11 09:25 PM |
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Another view of my 'Imperial' taken with the 7x57 in NZ, April 2011.
| Ben |
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| 22/05/11 09:30 PM |
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Very cool, Tim and John. Someday...
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NitroX
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| 23/05/11 01:34 AM |
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A couple photos of my South Australian Red Stag, free range, fair chase, not taken in the SE either.
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Number=248
| Ben |
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| 23/05/11 07:19 AM |
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G'day John, when I was at Wanilla (Eyre Peninsula) for Christmas, my inlaws pointed to some hills in the distance and said there were rumours of escapee reds in there. That is a magnificent stag.
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NitroX
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| 23/05/11 05:35 PM |
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Ben
Yes, if you follow the link, these reds were deer farm escapees from quite a few years back, whom had drifted into fallow country, and the landowners wanted them culled out.
I could have shot a lovely 6-pointer 2 or 3 years earlier (?) whom just stared at us. Until of course I got the camera out. The club observer didn't know if we were allowed to shoot the reds, but meeting the owner later, absolutely. Too late.
This stag was not standing around. He had been lying up in some thick bushes, and took off up the opposing hill as soon as he saw us approaching. I shot him up the arse, the only shot I could take, and again once or twice in the chest as he turned from the first shot.
A friend gave me year's ago the skull cap of a spiker to examine which they had shot spotlighting. Should have been a fallow, but it was definitely a red too. That's from another area again.
| hunta223rem |
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| 09/02/16 01:34 PM |
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nice cull stag shot with mannlicher m1910 9.5x57ms
| gryphon |
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| 09/02/16 03:42 PM |
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Before the rut,you can see the width of his back ,he is fatter than a seal!
Every bit of him was utilised.
| KiernanNZ |
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| 06/06/18 04:44 PM |
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Hello all.
On Queens Birthday weekend 2018 I got my first ever stag.
I've taken a couple of spikers before, red and fallow, and a number of red and fallow Hinds and yearlings. Mainly hunt for meat, got a family to feed.
He's only a 9 pointer, however some of the locals said that he's the best they've seen in a few years out of that block.
Shot with my Zastava Mauser .270 using 130gr Norma softpoints at about 260m.
If you look on my forehead above the bridge of my nose, you'll see a minor case of Weatherby brow...
I was lying downhill with the ultralight Harris all extended to level up the rifle. Put my brow a little closer to the scope...
We saw two, one a lot smaller head and this one. The other one had the brow tines and some points on top, but at 240m, couldn't tell how many points it was.
The young fellow that I was hunting with (who took the pics) had one of those scopes with the multiple reticles, in the heat of the moment he overestimated the drop and used the second bar on the reticle, put his shot clean over the animals back. I dropped mine...
| 264 |
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| 06/06/18 06:58 PM |
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Well done, cheers Mick
| Louis |
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| 07/06/18 02:25 AM |
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Congratulations on your successful hunt and nice stag.
Louis
| DarylS |
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| 07/06/18 02:35 AM |
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Looks like a good eating young stag.
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NitroX
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| 20/01/23 02:50 AM |
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Quote:
A couple photos of my South Australian Red Stag, free range, fair chase, not taken in the SE either.
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Number=248
An age ago!