Kerry Sika Stag

PippaSpaniel

I went out yesterday evening here in Kerry as the evening was good.I headed to some new ground surrounded by forestry and set myself up in an area where i knew deer where crossing. After five mins or so a sika stag started to roar in the wood about four hundred meters away as you can image my heart started to beat faster!!! After a few mins a seven pointer sika popped out from the edge of the forestry as i looked thru my binos. He stood there sniffing the air and walking carefully along the edge of the forest but the problem was that he was on the other side of a sheep wire fence so a shot was out of the question .As i lay there and an army of midges eating the head off me and not trying to move as to let the stag know i was there and waiting for him to jump the fence!!
I watched him for twenty mins or so eventually he jumped over but the cover was long and i kept loosing him all i could see was the antlers now and again and wondering had he fecked off then he appeared again all i could see was his neck and head i was in a perfect lying position so i lined him up for a neck shot with the 243 at 150meters pulled the trigger and down he came!! As i walked up to see him he lay there a beautiful kerry sika these evenings are really worth it, when u have patience it pays off!! We are blessed in Kerry all thou we didn,t bring home Sam!!!

Tackleberrywho

Lovely Stag!

Mauser 308

Great looking animal, well done.

deerhunter1

well done

steyrman2

nice stag good report :cool::cool:

steyrman2

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Lovely Buck!

fallow buck
sika stag
:rolleyes::rolleyes:

podge.243

Fair play it's a lovely stag and great story. Im headin out sat evening with a friend of mine so he can get his first sika stag of this year . Your gun is a nice setup what bullet's are you use'n?

Tackleberrywho

steyrman2 wrote: »

fallow buck
sika stag
:rolleyes::rolleyes:

It's OK
I call Male Fallow Stags as all the Local Farmers call them stags too and I hate to correct them


FINE STAG Pippa Spaniel

rugerman

i taught u were keeping him for me :mad:. nice animal though

ianoo

fine stag ther pipa ,dont shoot them all till we get down to ya :D

ian ....

4gun

I was down at some of my permissions on thursday evening and I heard a couple of shots late in the evening( about a 3/4 hour before dark) this was near killarney
got two fine little feckers my self around the same time

PippaSpaniel

I use 95grain hornady ssts find them good also federal work well for me.

PippaSpaniel

I will keep u a few burgers rugerman!!!!