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Special Interest => Hunting and Shooting => Topic started by: childers on February 12, 2013, 08:50:25 PM

Title: Rusa Stag
Post by: childers on February 12, 2013, 08:50:25 PM

Helping a mate on a job yesterday , mate calls me over to see this Rusa stag in velvet 30 mts away

Took couple of pics with iphone , majestic animal , was nice to see him

Title: Re: Rusa Stag
Post by: childers on February 13, 2013, 02:45:27 PM

Took my kids for bush walk while ago , heres one of them with a rub just outside the Gold Coast

Also a herd of Chital right in the heart of Red Deer country
nice stag in velvet there

Title: Re: Rusa Stag
Post by: bdowdy on May 30, 2013, 12:38:06 PM

 :Hunting) nice animals im a bowhunter and nothing beats a nice venison roast.. :youbeauty

Title: Re: Rusa Stag
Post by: childers on May 30, 2013, 07:35:15 PM

New England , Fallow deer area isnt it , prob Reds and Chital as well these days , taliking on line to one fella said he gets wild Elk south of you

Have you been knocking over the deer with your bow ?

Mick

Title: Re: Rusa Stag
Post by: bdowdy on May 30, 2013, 09:29:49 PM

yeh childers fallow deer area...few reds around...chital west of here....only just this year i gained a place to hunt with small numbers and took  a deer with my bow...so hard to get places and i live in prime spot..havnt heard of the elk but that would be awesome...prob knock few more over if i could get propertys or people to hunt with or on..cheers brett... :Hunting)...love just being in the bush

Title: Re: Rusa Stag
Post by: takrat on November 23, 2013, 08:08:45 PM

I recall when the deer were so limited that only a very select few knew of them, and short of Chinese water torture would never let on. Times have changed now you nearly have to fight your way through 'em to get a picnic table.