first sambar for the Battue

[WhelanLad]

afternoon bush stalk in the burnt country- its all burnt here at moment.

long story short, at 30m front on this one was in some burnt shrub thickets and Honked me. i picked a gap an sent a 165gr hot cor.
DRT.


happy days an fairly heavy carry out!

 

[Longstud]

Congrats Lad. Well done and lots of good eats there! What would be the weight approximation 450-500lbs

 

[WhelanLad]

Congrats Lad. Well done and lots of good eats there! What would be the weight approximation 450-500lbs

This is not a young one but not a full mature one, it would be around that 130-150kg I rekon.

Mature stags get heavy !

Mature Hind about 100kg alive...
Have a tonne of grass an shrub in the belly for rumination , knocks a bit of weight out of them.

I can ask a few harvesters who obviously go on weight about average stag an hind weights for ya.

 

[Longstud]

It’s all good, I was just looking at the photos and curiosity got me wondering. I was thinking double a good whitetail!!

 

[Joel]

Way to go Whelen! Great hunting and well done

 

[Mulletard]

Nice work!

We haven't even started warm weather/summer yet and I'm already wanting the season to start.

 

[iron cat]

OUTSTANDING!
Cat

 

[kamlooky]

Waaaay to go Laddie.
Looky like yew trim yer whiskers too.

 

[WhelanLad]

It’s all good, I was just looking at the photos and curiosity got me wondering. I was thinking double a good whitetail!!

So they are! Varies a bit of course but yep, more online with elk but shorter legs

Nice work!

We haven't even started warm weather/summer yet and I'm already wanting the season to start.

We had a cool snap early April, but the fallow barely fired..within 2 weeks it was back up to 23+ an lows of 9-14....
Degrees.

Still warm days , foggy mornings make it a pain , afternoons are splendid for the last couple hours!

Also waiting for cool cold damp winter to arrive , quite the bush down a bit an allow full day hunting!