Serious heads

Tackleberrywho

http://www.amplehunting.com/photos.asp

New Zealand anyone??

They make Irish reds and Fallow look like calves!

medicman

WOW :eek::eek::eek:

Tackleberrywho

medicman wrote: »

WOW :eek::eek::eek:

Monsters!
Can ya imagine having to drag that mudder'fcuker down the mountain!

medicman

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Monsters!
Can ya imagine having to drag that mudder'fcuker down the mountain!

Serious Hernia time, ohhh me aching back

ssl

One of those would fill the space above the mantelpiece just nicely...

fish slapped

What time's the flight???

WoW!

Tackleberrywho

fish slapped wrote: »

What time's the flight???

WoW!

Mate of mine works a cattle farm over there, he told me that deer are serious where he lives.

patsat

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Mate of mine works a cattle farm over there, he told me that deer are serious where he lives.

That has to be on your to do list! I know a man with a 36,000 acre farm in Zimbabwe and I can go over when I want for a bit of shooting... I'll wait for a few years tho I'm young yet!

fish slapped

patsat wrote: »

That has to be on your to do list! I know a man with a 36,000 acre farm in Zimbabwe and I can go over when I want for a bit of shooting... I'll wait for a few years tho I'm young yet!

As Clive J would say
"LIFE
is what you have while you're waiting to have one."

and to quote the NiKe ad - Just do it!!!!

you may not be able to when you get older.

It wasn't me!

patsat wrote: »

That has to be on your to do list! I know a man with a 36,000 acre farm in Zimbabwe and I can go over when I want for a bit of shooting... I'll wait for a few years tho I'm young yet!

This:

fish slapped wrote: »

As Clive J would say
"LIFE
is what you have while you're waiting to have one."

and to quote the NiKe ad - Just do it!!!!

you may not be able to when you get older.

is very true. Don't hang about. I'm hoping to do a plains game hunt or something equally interesting when I leave college in two years. No point waiting until some arbitrary "appropriate" age to do these things. If you have the cash and can afford the time, get ye to a plane!

patsat

I understand where ye r comin from but I'm only 20 with 2 years left in collage, once that is over me it will be top priority!

fish slapped

Buy a big big suit case (it'll have to be big to fit me in it )

It wasn't me!

patsat wrote: »

I understand where ye r comin from but I'm only 20 with 2 years left in collage, once that is over me it will be top priority!

21 meself and same situation. Take all the opportunities to go hunting that you can. I've yet to turn down an invitation to see and shoot somewhere new. Only reason to ever have money is to spend it on the good things in life.

johnner1

some head gear on them fellas:eek:

Tackleberrywho

johnner1 wrote: »

some head gear on them fellas:eek:

I think the biggest Fallow Head to date came from Kiwi land.

Some monster specimens, the reds are like Moose!

mightymouse311

And to think i decided to go on honeymoon to america rather than go to meet a guy i shot with when he lived here and now hes liven in NZ i could be coming back with on of them in my suit case (damn you wife to be)

sixpointfive

You dont get big animals like that in the wild in NZ, all those are game ranch animals, pretty impressive heads but its basically shooting in a pen, ok the pens are thousands of acres but they are not truly wild animals, been there done that and they dont tell you about the fences until you get there,

poulo6.5

Holey mother and sweet Devine jeasus and all the saints. What the bloody hell are they feeding those animals.

I bet your heart would be pounding if you managed to get one of those beasts in your cross hairs.

Double Barrel

sixpointfive wrote: »

You dont get big animals like that in the wild in NZ, all those are game ranch animals, pretty impressive heads but its basically shooting in a pen, ok the pens are thousands of acres but they are not truly wild animals, been there done that and they dont tell you about the fences until you get there,

Plus they feed them supplements and the best feedstuff money can buy.

Feargal as Luimneach

Double Barrel wrote: »

Plus they feed them supplements and the best feedstuff money can buy.

Yip they appear to look artificially large. Perhaps there selectively bred as well to get them as large as possible.

Birdnuts

sixpointfive wrote: »

You dont get big animals like that in the wild in NZ, all those are game ranch animals, pretty impressive heads but its basically shooting in a pen, ok the pens are thousands of acres but they are not truly wild animals, been there done that and they dont tell you about the fences until you get there,

Sounds nearly like canned hunting:(

CJhaughey

There are big red deer in NZ, those ones may be ranched but there are still good wild reds, you have to put in the time though.
Most hunters just want to fly in ,chopper in to the area and shoot a massive trophy head and fly out.
The real guy who wants to go bush hunting for Sika, or Red deer will have to put in a lotof footwork and the possibility of not having anything but the memories to show for it.
You could always go pig hunting with dogs and a knife if you want to get down and dirty.
One tip, if you are flying back with a trophy head into the EU make sure a recognised Vet certifies it in NZ as being not in contravention of CITES.
I have heard of German hunters being refused entry with their trophy heads because the correct forms haven't been filled out.

Birdnuts

I saw an add recently from Argentina offering huge trophies too from Reds and fallows on pampas grassland in the North - looked like great sport:)

Deerspotter

CJhaughey wrote: »

There are big red deer in NZ, those ones may be ranched but there are still good wild reds, you have to put in the time though.
Most hunters just want to fly in ,chopper in to the area and shoot a massive trophy head and fly out.
The real guy who wants to go bush hunting for Sika, or Red deer will have to put in a lotof footwork and the possibility of not having anything but the memories to show for it.
You could always go pig hunting with dogs and a knife if you want to get down and dirty.
One tip, if you are flying back with a trophy head into the EU make sure a recognised Vet certifies it in NZ as being not in contravention of CITES.
I have heard of German hunters being refused entry with their trophy heads because the correct forms haven't been filled out.

Would you fly in, shoot the stag, get the head stuffed and mounted intime for your flight home?
Or were specifically referring to skull mounts?

If you got the head stuffed out there (which you'd have to do, if shot your life-time trophy) how would you get it back to Dublin 3 or 4 months after your own return - giving the taxidermist some time to do his work?

hawke eye

it would if ya had some1 good 2 shoot them hahaha

CJhaughey

Deerspotter wrote: »

Would you fly in, shoot the stag, get the head stuffed and mounted intime for your flight home?
Or were specifically referring to skull mounts?

If you got the head stuffed out there (which you'd have to do, if shot your life-time trophy) how would you get it back to Dublin 3 or 4 months after your own return - giving the taxidermist some time to do his work?

Skull mounts could go back with you, if you got it stuffed and done out there you could use a proper freight expediter to deal with the red tape/Vet/Cites.
I think the German problem was a skull and a German customs agent. :rolleyes: