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matthew69
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2011 samba
      #212223 - 07/07/12 07:18 PM

hi all
i shot my first samba stag in 2011 with my new remington 700 in 375 h&h that i bought for bgr club shooting i thought i would give it a go and it worked out great he was 29x29

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: matthew69]
      #212229 - 07/07/12 11:07 PM


mathew

Awesome start to your Sambar tally. Well done.

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: 500Nitro]
      #212252 - 08/07/12 04:00 AM

Great stag. Congratulations.

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: NitroX]
      #212276 - 08/07/12 09:52 AM

An absolute cracker..straight to the taxidermists.

Tell us about the hunt Matt

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: gryphon]
      #212297 - 08/07/12 03:26 PM

What a ripper Matty!!

Great stuff.

Looks like the good old 375 works well on them too eh?

Like Gryph said "Tell us about the hunt"

Best
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matthew69
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Re: 2011 samba [Re: alexbeer]
      #212382 - 09/07/12 06:06 PM

Thanks all
375 work great just the right size for samba

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: matthew69]
      #212383 - 09/07/12 07:42 PM

Care to tell us all about how it unfolded ?

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: gryphon]
      #212468 - 10/07/12 09:28 PM

It all stared with a 7-day hunt with 3 mates from tassie with seeing two stags in the first 4 days which out smarted us all. We went on an afternoon hunt a short drive down the road to a nice spot. After a hard walk up and down the hills which are a lot bigger then the ones in tassie. I got back to the 4x4 quit stuffed leaving my pack at the Ute I walked up the track to wait form my mates to come back up the hill.
As I looked around for a nice rock to sit on and wait I looked up and seen a stag coming strait at me
Kneeling down I waited for him to come out from the trees just then I felt the wind hit the back of my neck he stopped dead. As I raised the Remington and sending the 235-gr projectile the short 30 meters hitting in the neck. He broke from the trees running side on the second shot hitting the spin. With some good hand shakes and all the pic taken and a short drag with the 4x4 up to the track he was in the Ute
All up two nice eating does nice stag two foxes and a great week with my mates I will not forget.

Being at the right place at the right time is all ways good bit of luck.

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Re: 2011 samba [Re: matthew69]
      #212470 - 10/07/12 09:33 PM

Quote:

I got back to the 4x4 quit stuffed leaving my pack at the Ute I walked up the track to wait form my mates to come back up the hill.
As I looked around for a nice rock to sit on and wait I looked up and seen a stag coming strait at me ...

Being at the right place at the right time is all ways good bit of luck.



Ha ha, love it. Sure you will annoy a lot of mad sambar hunters, with your luck. Shot while resting near a track waiting for your mates.

I remember a story of an Adelaide hunter who was hunting for the first time with guys who hunted for a week or three every year for 'decades' and never had taken a decent stag. This guy on the first morning when for a sit behind a bush at camp and sighted a stag and shot it ... not a crap head either.

But one has to take the easy ones when they are there, to make up for the difficult ones ...

Congratulations again.

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Edited by NitroX (11/07/12 12:29 PM)

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gryphon
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Re: 2011 samba [Re: NitroX]
      #212490 - 11/07/12 06:50 AM

And a mate of mine left camp to hunt,walked a few hundred yards and then looked ahead and two hinds and a ripper simply walked into him..BANG!

None would be as easy as that young stag I PM-ed you about a few weeks ago John.

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Ben
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Re: 2011 samba [Re: gryphon]
      #212615 - 13/07/12 11:22 PM

Great result!

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