Meath reds

tfox

Thought some of you might like these pics, got up near Drogheda this morning, 13 points, weighed in at 126 kg ( 20 stone I think ), not bad condition for a rutting stag. Very glad my landrover has a winch :-)

round tower huntsman

fine animal. i do some hunting(not deer) on the meath side of drogheda didnt know there was animals like that about.

DR6.5

Super animal, did you get a good stalk on the stag.

Are the reds in full swing cause the sika are taking their time up in wicklow, watching looking at good few stags over the last week and they were feeding away mad.

I wouldnt fancy shooting that animal on the hill.

dr6.5

muckyprawn

Nice pics, well done. I'm very curious as to the exact location!?

tfox

Round tower huntsman - There are reds all along the Boyne ValleyDR 6.5 - The reds have been roaring and clashing the last ten days, saw few lost looking calves while there mothers were off for some hanky-panky :-) Was in wicklow 3 weeks back, the hybrids were starting to roar but no noise from the sika yet !!Muckyprawn - I'm afraid not gonna be more specific, i'm sure you understand !!
excuse the poor posts, my laptop is on the fritz and the return doesnt seem to be working so cant insert blank lines

Tackleberrywho

I want a red!
Just one for having mounted in the hall.

tfox

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

I want a red!
Just one for having mounted in the hall.

I'm afraid someone else has already booked the head for there wall :-)

muckyprawn

I understand...I know that there is plenty of them about alright. I just didn't think people where allowed to shoot them in these places??

Tackleberrywho

tfox wrote: »

I'm afraid someone else has already booked the head for there wall :-)

Well if they chicken out on the taxidermy I'll pay for it.
I have a person who asked me for a stags head, I'd prefer if I shot it myself though

Go on T, get me Just 1 big red!

tfox

muckyprawn wrote: »

I understand...I know that there is plenty of them about alright. I just didn't think people where allowed to shoot them in these places??

Well except in places you have permission of course :-)Tack I have you in mind, leaving that bit of ground alone for a while till hinds are in, have another piece that's all under maize at the mo so when that's harvested we'll go for a walk !!

tfox

Sorry must apologise, thread should have read " Louth reds "

patsat

Nice looking animal, wouldn't look forward to draggin him tho!:D Didn't realise there was any sort of deer up there!

bunny shooter

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Well if they chicken out on the taxidermy I'll pay for it.
I have a person who asked me for a stags head, I'd prefer if I shot it myself though

Go on T, get me Just 1 big red!

I've a fallow head mounted if you're interested. Cost me €450 a few years ago. I'd let it go cheaper than that

The wife hates it :rolleyes:

tfox

patsat wrote: »

Nice looking animal, wouldn't look forward to draggin him tho!:D Didn't realise there was any sort of deer up there!

Well lucky could drive right up to him, had him hanging out of a branch and just backed trailer in underneath and away we go :-)

patsat

tfox wrote: »

Well lucky could drive right up to him, had him hanging out of a branch and just backed trailer in underneath and away we go :-)

Carlsberg don't do handy drags... But if they did, that would be it!

dwighet

20 STONE

Im out of breath and going dizzy just thinking about the drag of an animal that size....

tfox

We shot bigger stag last year, was like a bullock !! again a winch is a wonderful tool !! Not sure what he weighed in at but I know took 4 of us to get in the back of the landrover !!#https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/343053/121928.jpg

Tackleberrywho

tfox wrote: »

We shot bigger stag last year, was like a bullock !! again a winch is a wonderful tool !! Not sure what he weighed in at but I know took 4 of us to get in the back of the landrover !!#https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/343053/121928.jpg

Like a Belgian Blue

Who got dibbs on that head!

tfox

It was shot by a dutch friend of ours, mounted proudly in his house in the south of France I'm sure.

dwighet

tfox wrote: »

We shot bigger stag last year, was like a bullock !! again a winch is a wonderful tool !! Not sure what he weighed in at but I know took 4 of us to get in the back of the landrover !!#https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/343053/121928.jpg

Thats a big fecker alright....
I would love to get some red land but its one of those things that you cant go into without good preperation and a gaggle of lads to help with the horsepower......

Im guessing you have access to a quad or does your red shooting ground have good access for a 4x4 to get nearby.....

tfox

dwighet wrote: »

Thats a big fecker alright....
I would love to get some red land but its one of those things that you cant go into without good preperation and a gaggle of lads to help with the horsepower......

Im guessing you have access to a quad or does your red shooting ground have good access for a 4x4 to get nearby.....

That bit of ground is open farmland that isnt grazed, just 2 cuts of silage takel off it so we can drive over most of it when ground permits, then when too wet there's a little old 35 and a trailer handy. My boss bought a massey ferguson utillity truck, like an off road golf cart with tipping body on the back which he's actually changing for a kubota ( far better machine ) so we have the use of it, very low ground pressure so ideal for stubble and wet lands, just need to mount a winch on the body !! Nearly all my permissions have some sort of quad/tractor/loader we can use. Had a farmer hop into his combine and harvest a stripe all the way down to where we'd downed an animal in the dark with lights blazing everywhere, some sight !! Tied it to the head and away we went !!

dwighet

tfox wrote: »

That bit of ground is open farmland that isnt grazed, just 2 cuts of silage takel off it so we can drive over most of it when ground permits, then when too wet there's a little old 35 and a trailer handy. My boss bought a massey ferguson utillity truck, like an off road golf cart with tipping body on the back which he's actually changing for a kubota ( far better machine ) so we have the use of it, very low ground pressure so ideal for stubble and wet lands, just need to mount a winch on the body !! Nearly all my permissions have some sort of quad/tractor/loader we can use. Had a farmer hop into his combine and harvest a stripe all the way down to where we'd downed an animal in the dark with lights blazing everywhere, some sight !! Tied it to the head and away we went !!

Good man....
its stuff like that the kinds of meself can only dream of...
Keep up the good work and good luck to ya;)

Tackleberrywho

dwighet wrote: »

Good man....
its stuff like that the kinds of meself can only dream of...
Keep up the good work and good luck to ya;)

Well, I used a tractor once, but most places I can get a 4x4 within a few hundred yards tops.

I've been toying with the winch idea for years, especially with a heavy bugger.

I have a hand winch for the shed, I have not rigged it up yet though, I might need a better shed as the one at home is filling up with other paraphernalia.

The brothers tractor would do to much damage on a corn field, and I do not have the use of a quad

muckyprawn

Louth stags....that makes it a bit more plausable! I was around that neck of the woods today on a driven fox shoot. We got 6 in total. Also see two hinds, mother and calf. Nice to see them.

tfox

always nice to see deer when out and about

muckyprawn

That's it...nearly as nice as seeing them on the plate!!

Thomasofmel

Nice shooting - and good to see that Louth or Drogheda area has such fine animals to offer. Have been out shooting in mornings for - mainly vermin - but have not spotted such fine stags yet :rolleyes:

muckyprawn

Plenty of local places thomas, but getting permission is another thing....

dwighet

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Well, I used a tractor once, but most places I can get a 4x4 within a few hundred yards tops.

I've been toying with the winch idea for years, especially with a heavy bugger.

I have a hand winch for the shed, I have not rigged it up yet though, I might need a better shed as the one at home is filling up with other paraphernalia.

The brothers tractor would do to much damage on a corn field, and I do not have the use of a quad

Mate do what I do...stick to what your able for....
Fallow and sika all one needs is a strong back and a good heart for the drag...

But I do envy these lads that put alot of coin and prep into there kit for stalking the big reds..... they get the thumbs up from me... thats for sure..

Thomasofmel

muckyprawn wrote: »

Plenty of local places thomas, but getting permission is another thing....

I'm not after deer - only vermin at this stage and have permissions to keep myself busy. But would like to go stalking if there would be an opportunity, so if you guys ever need help whilst in Louth area...

kieran1141

dwighet wrote: »

Mate do what I do...stick to what your able for....
Fallow and sika all one needs is a strong back and a good heart for the drag...

But I do envy these lads that put alot of coin and prep into there kit for stalking the big reds..... they get the thumbs up from me... thats for sure..

shot 2 big reds on 1 of my permissions and what a job to get them out,lucky on 1 got farmer to pull out with tractor second had to be man handled by 4 of us, as you say its ok if your well setup for them, ill stick to the fallow that i can eat, but would be tempted if i meet a red pricket but even that can sometimes prove a big job, but i know where tack is coming from its nice to say you got a big red, and it is thumbs up to the lads you are prepared for the big boys.

Tackleberrywho

kieran1141 wrote: »

shot 2 big reds on 1 of my permissions and what a job to get them out,lucky on 1 got farmer to pull out with tractor second had to be man handled by 4 of us, as you say its ok if your well setup for them, ill stick to the fallow that i can eat, but would be tempted if i meet a red pricket but even that can sometimes prove a big job, but i know where tack is coming from its nice to say you got a big red, and it is thumbs up to the lads you are prepared for the big boys.

I only want one Keiran. Just to tick it off the list.
I have shot 2 big fallow TBH I prefer a nice young deer that I can eat, but one nice big red would be ever so nice on my wall!!

I have 2 tractors at home and a telescopic loader
Just no quad, and not a red in miles!!

Fallow

Fine stag so he is well done.
Im between Athboy and navan and their a load round me howling at the miniute! Some lads shoot them not sure who they are, prehaps their on here.?
I have horses on my land their and last febuary, they shot a brown mare on me, id say they thought it was a stag. !

kieran1141

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

I only want one Keiran. Just to tick it off the list.
I have shot 2 big fallow TBH I prefer a nice young deer that I can eat, but one nice big red would be ever so nice on my wall!!

I have 2 tractors at home and a telescopic loader
Just no quad, and not a red in miles!!

well tack a farmer asked me to cull a few he said huge stags there is 4 he tells me, might have a look and let you have 1 of them iam not interested, this might not be a million miles away from you, between birr and tullamore, i will have a look did'nt even go there yet this year, will look durning the week he said says they are out in a green field beside the lane up to farm every morn, a week before the shooting started he fired a shotgun up in the air to run 18 fallow out of the field and the 4 stags were up the other end he said, i know they wont be shot because sighns up everywhere no shooting or hunting on these lands.

meathshooter1

Fallow wrote: »

Fine stag so he is well done.
Im between Athboy and navan and their a load round me howling at the miniute! Some lads shoot them not sure who they are, prehaps their on here.?
I have horses on my land their and last febuary, they shot a brown mare on me, id say they thought it was a stag. !

poachers out lamping I would say.I know your area well not a hundred miles away. plenty deer around the bog there.these cowboys will f*** it up for genuine hunters ,they have no respect for these magnificent animals and peoples land

tfox

meathshooter1 wrote: »

poachers out lamping I would say.I know your area well not a hundred miles away. plenty deer around the bog there.these cowboys will f*** it up for genuine hunters ,they have no respect for these magnificent animals and peoples land

I know the road between Athboy and Navan along by Bohermeen is hit very hard by poachers. Gits too lazy to understand and take on there prey in a fair environment just shooting out the window of there jeeps at nite !! Drives me mad !!Kieran1141 Would they not be fallow bucks down that way ....?

meathshooter1

tfox wrote: »

I know the road between Athboy and Navan along by Bohermeen is hit very hard by poachers. Gits too lazy to understand and take on there prey in a fair environment just shooting out the window of there jeeps at nite !! Drives me mad !!Kieran1141 Would they not be fallow bucks down that way ....?

reds have spread into that area its coillte land the local gun club had it for a number of years but lost the tender a few years back. have private land permission not to far from it friend has a farm beside it(rabbit, fox ,pheasant)

meathshooter1

tfox wrote: »

I know the road between Athboy and Navan along by Bohermeen is hit very hard by poachers. Gits too lazy to understand and take on there prey in a fair environment just shooting out the window of there jeeps at nite !! Drives me mad !!Kieran1141 Would they not be fallow bucks down that way ....?

reds have spread into that area its coillte land the local gun club had it for a number of years but lost the tender a few years back. have private land permission not to far from it friend has a farm beside it(rabbit, fox ,pheasant)the new motorway has displaced alot of deer thats what I reckon

Sandyman

Hi Lads,
We shot a larde red stag in Louth last year with farmers and Departments permission because of TB threat to fresian heard. He took 2no. .270 rounds into trhe brisket from 150 yda and one side on into the heart and lung area. We still thought we lost him only his back quarter wobbled as he crossed the field boundary. We found him in a thicket 100 yards in next field. The farmer reckoned he was 250 kilos upwards. We gutted and took his dead off and still 3 of us couldnt pull him back into farmers land. We had to get a tractor. He was clean of TB beautiful head. I will post photos soon. I have seen several other reds in boyne valley area.

Regards
Sman.

muckyprawn

Apparently the reds in this area are a hybrid of some description....seemingly they were crossed with another specimen around the time of the battle of the boyne. I have seen some massive stags. I know of one that was brought to a taxidermist who said it's the biggest he has ever had to mount and that it was of elk proportions!!

kieran1141

tfox wrote: »

I know the road between Athboy and Navan along by Bohermeen is hit very hard by poachers. Gits too lazy to understand and take on there prey in a fair environment just shooting out the window of there jeeps at nite !! Drives me mad !!Kieran1141 Would they not be fallow bucks down that way ....?

yep there is a lot of fallow bucks, all fallow and reds here.

crackcrack30

yep fallow & some hybrids in offaly area... not red red red wicklow, kerry donegal reds. Correct me if im wrong..

crackcrack30

Sandyman wrote: »

Hi Lads,
We shot a larde red stag in Louth last year with farmers and Departments permission because of TB threat to fresian heard. He took 2no. .270 rounds into trhe brisket from 150 yda and one side on into the heart and lung area. We still thought we lost him only his back quarter wobbled as he crossed the field boundary. We found him in a thicket 100 yards in next field. The farmer reckoned he was 250 kilos upwards. We gutted and took his dead off and still 3 of us couldnt pull him back into farmers land. We had to get a tractor. He was clean of TB beautiful head. I will post photos soon. I have seen several other reds in boyne valley area.

Regards
Sman.

Heard 25 fallow shot by npws in clare spot recently due to outcry from farmers over TB - only trace TB found in one animal (waste). I suppose the badger got a break for a few days

spik r

thats a baby stag il put up some pics of a 21 pointer a friend shot last week

Tackleberrywho

spik r wrote: »

thats a baby stag il put up some pics of a 21 pointer a friend shot last week

Do, we ll love to see Successful hunting pics

tfox

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Do, we ll love to see Successful hunting pics

Yes do, great to see what other guys are getting :-)

tfox

Another 2 hinds this morning, one tipped the scales at 112kg, took some effort get it in the back of the landrover !! Glad brought my mate and not the gf :D Other pic is of a very content looking dog

steyrman2

nice pic i feel your pain dragging them :rolleyes:

tfox

The bigger one we had to drag bout 60 yds then 20 yds up a 45 degree slope, bloody killed us !! Thank god the ground was good as managed drive right up across stubble field to them !! Was never as glad to get a breakfast roll in all my life

steyrman2

hi you should try a good feed of porridge first thing in the morning slow release and good for you along with a spoon of honey much better for you than breakfast rolls but dont taste as nice

poulo6.5

tfox wrote: »

The bigger one we had to drag bout 60 yds then 20 yds up a 45 degree slope, bloody killed us !! Thank god the ground was good as managed drive right up across stubble field to them !! Was never as glad to get a breakfast roll in all my life

Couple of nice animals there. You look well set up to take care of them.
Does the Woolf hound track deer for you or just eat them.