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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #75 on: May 14, 2016, 06:54:16 PM »
Thanks everyone! I know I got a keeper with this one.  :chuckle:

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #76 on: May 14, 2016, 07:51:04 PM »
:drool: that's one hell of a stag!
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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #77 on: May 14, 2016, 08:15:16 PM »
Nice Pics  please Keep Updating   What's the Name of the Place your Hunting  at?   Price for a Stag?
We are with wilderness quest New Zealand.
I'll send a pm with what we paid.
send me one too please.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #78 on: May 14, 2016, 08:24:26 PM »
Looks like it had alil bit of elk genetics ? Do they cross ?

BTW awesome adventure ! Awesome animal !

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #79 on: May 14, 2016, 10:45:35 PM »
Looks like it had alil bit of elk genetics ? Do they cross ?

BTW awesome adventure ! Awesome animal !
I think they do cross, but I'm not sure of this one was a cross or not. Body size wasn't humongous like an elk.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #80 on: May 15, 2016, 01:49:52 AM »
Very cool :tup:

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #81 on: May 15, 2016, 02:06:19 AM »
Beautiful Red Stagg congrats my next red Stagg will be New Zealand with a bow

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #82 on: May 15, 2016, 05:04:50 AM »
Looks like it had alil bit of elk genetics ? Do they cross ?

BTW awesome adventure ! Awesome animal !
I think they do cross, but I'm not sure of this one was a cross or not. Body size wasn't humongous like an elk.

I always thought most of the stags in New Zealand are crossed.  I remember reading information at the YO Ranch in Texas that "Red Stag" means it is a cross whereas Red Deer Stag is the pure species.  Sika/Red cross would be a "Silk Stag? 

I was offered a hunt in Argentina some years ago and their big selling point was that the stags there were "Pure" Red Deer and claimed they were one of the few places left to find them in huntable numbers.
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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #83 on: May 15, 2016, 07:36:22 AM »
Congrats! Honeymoon / hunting trip.  :tup:  looked like a beautiful trip.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #84 on: May 15, 2016, 07:47:02 AM »
Congrats on an awesome stag and a great honeymoon full of memories.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #85 on: May 15, 2016, 08:25:02 AM »
Looks like it had alil bit of elk genetics ? Do they cross ?

BTW awesome adventure ! Awesome animal !
I think they do cross, but I'm not sure of this one was a cross or not. Body size wasn't humongous like an elk.

I always thought most of the stags in New Zealand are crossed.  I remember reading information at the YO Ranch in Texas that "Red Stag" means it is a cross whereas Red Deer Stag is the pure species.  Sika/Red cross would be a "Silk Stag? 

I was offered a hunt in Argentina some years ago and their big selling point was that the stags there were "Pure" Red Deer and claimed they were one of the few places left to find them in huntable numbers.

That's interesting, I was just going off the style of fronts bull blasters stag but after looking at a couple hundred other stags (google) its not really something to make note of.....it's amazing how unique these animals are, everyone has its own "look"....can't wait to get over there someday

Again awesome,awesome, awesome ! :tup:


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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #86 on: May 15, 2016, 09:00:13 AM »
They do cross but early on it's only a one way cross like a horse and a donkey. A stag can breed a cow elk and have a live calf. However if a bull breeds a hind. The fetus is to big for the hind to carry and they will abort is my understanding.

The stuff you see on his stag is very typical for stags.
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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #87 on: May 15, 2016, 09:54:12 AM »
NZ has been on the dream radar for quite awhile now and then I go and see all these great photos and that stag ............... I gotta get past dreaming and get over there pronto. Congrats on the marriage and the hunt!
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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #88 on: May 15, 2016, 10:34:56 AM »
Nice Pics  please Keep Updating   What's the Name of the Place your Hunting  at?   Price for a Stag?
We are with wilderness quest New Zealand.
I'll send a pm with what we paid.

I was wondering the same thing! Congrats on the bride and stag!

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #89 on: May 15, 2016, 12:09:53 PM »
Great work pal!  Congrats on all the trophies this trip and memories made.  Hope you get to eat some of it.

 


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