AUSTRALIA: What I Normally Hunt In Australia

[CBH Australia]

Nice pics, great work, Queenslander?

Did you have to post another Whelen for Bob? He’s mad for that stuff.

The barrel band on it looks good,

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Nice pics, great work, Queenslander?

Did you have to post another Whelen for Bob? He’s mad for that stuff.

The barrel band on it looks good,

Chris
Guy must be a man of superior intelligence and class like all of us Whelen owners. Just hope he's loading it to it FULL potential.

A 10 year-old sambar stag with frozen turds for antlers.
Taken with my SMLE NO4 ACTION 444 Marlin loaded with 280 grain Woodleigh RNSP.
Ended up making great eating very tender.
Bob

 

[cperso]

Chris
Guy must be a man of superior intelligence and class like all of us Whelen owners. Just hope he's loading it to it FULL potential.
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A 10 year-old sambar stag with frozen turds for antlers.
Taken with my SMLE NO4 ACTION 444 Marlin loaded with 280 grain Woodleigh RNSP.
Ended up making great eating very tender.
Bob

Bob,
That doesnt look look a 10y old Sambar but more like a spiker

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Bob,
That doesnt look look a 10y old Sambar but more like a spiker

Cperso.
I can assure you he was no spiker. He went 270 kg on the good and his teeth were well worn. He was weighed and aged by my cattle farmer mate.
Bob

 

[cperso]

Cperso.
I can assure you he was no spiker. He went 270 kg on the good and his teeth were well worn. He was weighed and aged by my cattle farmer mate.
Bob

Not disbeleieving you.
I've shot probably north of five hundred of Sambar in my hunting years.
Also taken scores of big mature stags and stags that were in their last season but none of those big stags had the features of the one in the photo.
Photo's can be deceiving but the lack of musle tone in the neck and overall stockyness in the body is also a usual sign of immaturity.
Would be good to see his head from a close frontal view or the scull as well as big old stags tend to have wider head shorter face. Pedicals on a really old stag will be a lot shorter too giving the antlers a look like they are just sitting on top of the scull.
Would love to see the scull of this fella

 

[Dr Ray]

They are some fantastic trophies, and nothing better than hunting with family!

Agreed!

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Not disbeleieving you.
I've shot probably north of five hundred of Sambar in my hunting years.
Also taken scores of big mature stags and stags that were in their last season but none of those big stags had the features of the one in the photo.
Photo's can be deceiving but the lack of musle tone in the neck and overall stockyness in the body is also a usual sign of immaturity.
Would be good to see his head from a close frontal view or the scull as well as big old stags tend to have wider head shorter face. Pedicals on a really old stag will be a lot shorter too giving the antlers a look like they are just sitting on top of the scull.
Would love to see the scull of this fella

cperso.
Mate all I kept was the meat and the turd antlers. In the photo he has been gutted ready to hang for a week before butchering.
Bob