Took this great stag in our Spain area last season, hope you guys like it, this will be a great one in the trophy room.
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S&L7x57
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I am going to put my head above the parapet and ask if this photo of very happy commercial guide (and his undoubtedly beautiful stag) is a suitable photo to put on public display when we are under the critical gaze of so many bored, eco-warriors?
I have posted similar in the past but given the advice that these pictures can so easily be used agin us, I probably wouldn't do so now.
I don't have a dog in this fight so don't rant at me, I am just posing the question.
I have posted similar in the past but given the advice that these pictures can so easily be used agin us, I probably wouldn't do so now.
I don't have a dog in this fight so don't rant at me, I am just posing the question.
Thanks for the observation, i am very proud of what i do, eco warriors could take the picture and do whatever they want, i always post my pictures online, get some hate comments but i don't even reply them, but i think we have t stand ground on what we do, we cant keep hiding what we love.
Thanks sir!
As above. Why on earth would you join a 'deer stalking' forum, and then pick holes when somebody posts a photograph of a 'deer' that's been 'stalked'?
Some may have a different idea of 'stalking'
@adictosacazar , was the stag taken on public or private land? What was the carcass weight? Very interested as in Scotland such a stag would be truly exceptional especially if wild (probably impossible!)
Must have good grazing in that region!
Some may have a different idea of 'stalking'
@adictosacazar , was the stag taken on public or private land? What was the carcass weight? Very interested as in Scotland such a stag would be truly exceptional especially if wild (probably impossible!)
Must have good grazing in that region!
In spain you don't get this stag in public areas! we wish! our hunting area is 3.000 hectares private land, The body weight with head on was 186 kg and 120kg without guts, legs and head.
TH4
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If you are worried about offending people by posting pictures of the end result of a perfectly legal and sustainable hunt, then perhaps you should get into another pastime. Why should we bow down to a rabid minority skulking around in the darkness trying to hide the fact that we harvest animals for food and sport from the general public. If we don't show people what we do and how trophy hunting is sustainable and benefits the population of animals then we are just shooting ourselves in the foot. There are enough people out there attacking us without doing it ourselves.
highseat6.5
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Every time you take a step back in retreat you allow the enemy advance one step ..time to stand our ground !
Cracking stag ..
John Gryphon
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That reads like so much s-h-i-t to me.
Well said!
Yes pandering to the enemy ends up in heading to the 'showers'
S&L7x57
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Hmm, well I did ask the question.
I have NO personal problem with the OP posting pictures of any deer that he has culled. Nor do I want give up my stalking which I love above all my other indulgencies, of which I have several.
However, if the current high probability of having all UK imports and exports of hunting trophies banned shows us anything it is that we are a minority who are losing some arguments to the animal rights loonies.
Carrie Symonds has the ear of our dear Boris and Zak Goldsmith was propelled into the Lords when he lost his seat in parliament so he could pursue the banning of trophy import/exports.
Opinion among those in the fight to save us from this legislation is that the battle is as good as lost, many say it is down to the 'canned lion' hunts in South Africa that we did little to disassociate ourselves from and ,although it has nothing to do with what we do in the UK, it has not stopped the ARL's from using it to further their cause.
The OP may very well be under no risk of more than a few unpleasant posts, he lives in different country and culture, but what is posted on a principally UK forum will be interpreted and used by people with different agendas.
I have noticed that UK sporting rifle magazines are beginning to wake up to this threat and the stalking articles are increasingly about 'why we do it' instead of, or as well as, 'what we killed'. Its not that we should be ashamed of what we do, we just need to present it a the way that doesn't give ammunition to those who choose to misrepresent us and what we do.
I am sorry that this meets with such vocal disagreement but if you really think that by standing our ground and refusing to smell the legislation bearing down on us in the UK, you really are living in la-la land.
I am not suggesting that we change what we do, just that we take care how we present it to the world.
I have NO personal problem with the OP posting pictures of any deer that he has culled. Nor do I want give up my stalking which I love above all my other indulgencies, of which I have several.
However, if the current high probability of having all UK imports and exports of hunting trophies banned shows us anything it is that we are a minority who are losing some arguments to the animal rights loonies.
Carrie Symonds has the ear of our dear Boris and Zak Goldsmith was propelled into the Lords when he lost his seat in parliament so he could pursue the banning of trophy import/exports.
Opinion among those in the fight to save us from this legislation is that the battle is as good as lost, many say it is down to the 'canned lion' hunts in South Africa that we did little to disassociate ourselves from and ,although it has nothing to do with what we do in the UK, it has not stopped the ARL's from using it to further their cause.
The OP may very well be under no risk of more than a few unpleasant posts, he lives in different country and culture, but what is posted on a principally UK forum will be interpreted and used by people with different agendas.
I have noticed that UK sporting rifle magazines are beginning to wake up to this threat and the stalking articles are increasingly about 'why we do it' instead of, or as well as, 'what we killed'. Its not that we should be ashamed of what we do, we just need to present it a the way that doesn't give ammunition to those who choose to misrepresent us and what we do.
I am sorry that this meets with such vocal disagreement but if you really think that by standing our ground and refusing to smell the legislation bearing down on us in the UK, you really are living in la-la land.
I am not suggesting that we change what we do, just that we take care how we present it to the world.
A very impressive animal, any idea how old it would have been?
Willowbank.
Willowbank.
I would say maybe 8 or 9
More pictures.
Boghossian
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Fenced or open area?
In spain you don't get this stag in public open areas! we wish! our hunting area is 3.000 hectares private land fenced, but you have to work for them.
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