I have a couple of old sporting books, and one stag breeding book which often relates to English Park stags being moved up to Scotland to try and improve the quality of the heads and larder weight.
Archie Crawford?
That’s one hell of a good innings
What were his teeth like if I may ask!
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Well if you take my larder weight of 182kg I’d estimate that to have been approaching 240kg on the hoof. It wouldn’t be the first time a journalist has made something up because in their head it sounded plausible, but I’d say there are certainly 1/4 tonne (if not quite half tonne) beast walking around the Suffolk countryside. I believe I’m right in saying stags with larder weights over 200kg have been shot round here, the one I shot was not a particularly massive animal in terms of length but he was stocky, even the game dealers described it as looking like a whisky barrel around the ribs.Deer struck in rope swing rescued by Suffolk fire crews
The stag, which weighs about half a tonne, was in a "distressed" state, fire crews say.
Suffolk stags apparently weigh half a tonne or 79 stone !!!!!!
Front teeth were down level with the gums, molars didn't seen too bad. Last winter I could see he had lost weight and wasn't converting his food well. He picked up again this summer but I wasn't about to put him through another winter. It's not doing the deed that's hard but making the decision so all summer I knew I was going to have to do it. When he was standing at the garden gate away from the spikers that were in the same field it was just the right opportunity to take.That’s one hell of a good innings
Yep that looks like it.
That animal is not that big. 150kgs on the hoof would be about it IMO. Looks like only 2 years old although the picture isn't that great. However, there are definitely 1/4 tonne ones walking around East Anglia. The biggest so far this year at my dealers was 198kgs!
Watched the entire Meateater series and reflected on this - for the smaller beasts our closeness to civilisation and BP dictate our UK modus operandi but, having helped to gut our 23 stone larder weight beast up on Arran a fortnight ago and to extract it with a quad, a Hilux and the winch on my FL2, I understand where you are coming from. Thankfully, most of the UK deer in remote locations can be got close to with quads, UTV or Argos.
You don't shoot beasts approaching 200kgs in shite places. If I don't have enough rope to reach it from something that I can drive on then I wouldn't pull the trigger.
Skin on..
Makes the one I shot seem tiny compared to that lol.
I won't even shoot a deer if it's below me!
Doesn't matter where it is in relation to you. It's where it is in relation to your vehicle that counts!
