Great film - well shot and edited and that deer was a absolute stomper

Awesome video & an epic stag. Well done lads!

Quality video there lads! Good stag too

Mate absolutely beauty.!! Well done. Didn't get to say hi at the RO course the other day ,but surely will. Good payoff right there.Jeremy

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jeremy. Hope you enjoyed it. Will no doubt catch you at one of the next meetings.

All of this guys are awesome hunters i love watching ❤️❤️❤️

Great video. Awesome country and antlers. 👍👍

Wow just wow, congrats on a great stag. Really earnt it too. Great vid

Wow awesome stuff guys that sent shivers up my spine when the stag hit the deck! Great VO skills too. Well done.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! Thanks for watching!!

Awesome video brothers :)

Great hunt and awesome head! Definitely a shoulder mount respect for the hard hunt and quality stag, pity you didn’t cape him out hey

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Certainly a decision made after plenty of pondering!

Excellent storytelling bro enjoyed that 👌

Premium content as always, loved it 🤌

Awesome video lads keep on with the content

Dream stag right there! Top stuff 👍

Great vid mate.

holy moly! next level stag man.

Gotta love it when a plan comes together like that! Bloody cool video boys

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Ben! Doesn’t go to plan very often so we are pretty stoked when it does! Thanks for watching :)

Such a sick video lads, cheers for putting it together.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed boss!

Very good effort, great result

Good stag guys Simon put the effort in good to see thanx guys

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Robert, thanks for watching.

Great watch fellas. Cheers! Fantastic animal.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! Never know what will decide to stroll out of the bush! Thanks for watching.

Awesome! Editing and narration on point!

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Jim, Kezza does well eh!

Great video mate! Always been the chance of a good head in up that valley, seen a few half decent ones up there but nothing that monstrous! What a horse mate!

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Zac!! Was definitely a under-promise over-deliver sort of situation. Thanks for watching mate!

Mint stag! Good yarns as well.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! Usually quantity not quality with our sharns 😂

Ya should be able to whack that up into some good knife handles Simon lol ........... nah just kidding, awesome stuff Simon, and a big congrats mate, you worked hard for it and well deserved Bring on the next vid Looks like 3 more relatively newbies might also be hooked now too

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Always aiming to share experiences with new and keen people. A shame the lads weren’t all able to get behind the rifle. But I’m sure they’ll be more pumped when they do.

And there ya go..... Great stag.... And, As usual, good spotting in the first instance Si (and great to see you sweating some gravy!!)

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Was it enough teasing for ya, Greig? Those hills are only getting bigger and bigger.

@greigcaigou5991

Жыл бұрын

@@chasingpeaks yeah you elivered on the "teaser" . . . nah, those hills are easy enough, and the more I do down at the bottom of the south the smaller the top of the south looks!!

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

@@greigcaigou5991 positive outlook! Even Fiordland alpine scrub compares closely to the Leatham wilding pines…

That's a f..king nice Red Stag bro well done 🕊

@chasingpeaks

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Grant! Hell of a head to pull out of that area! Thanks for watching.

An area which consistently produces poor heads can occasionally produce an amazing head, as your experience has shown. Well done.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Gregory! Eventually hard yards pay off eh!! Thanks for watching.

awesome guys!! I've been up there a few times but never managed to see let alone shoot a beast like that!!! Good stuff

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

It’s an awesome area! It was the home of my first back country hunt, great place to take a few rookies to warm them into the hunting game! Luck was on our side that day!!!

New sub! Liked 🐸😛👍

wicked fellas keep it up

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers bro!

Awesome hunt boys, the hard yards paid off. Nothing like that feeling. What rifle and caliber did you use on the deer?

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Certainly feels good to get one on the deck. It’s a Xbolt White Gold chambered in .280REM

Cool video guys. What cal rifles are you using?

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

The Browning that shot the stag is a .280. The Tikka is chambered in .308. 🤙

I just don't understand why you didn't cape such a fantastic, hard earnt trophy.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Very good and valid concern. It was after much deliberation that we made the decision not to. It is a great animal and one unlikely to better, from that region. However, once we do find the ‘right’ Red Stag for a shoulder mount he will, well and truly, be a great specimen. Also, it keeps that challenge and drive alive.

Jeepers lads that's a bloody good animal for that area !!!

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Not bad eh… Dimond in the rough 😂

Top head for that area, few genes coming though from the east of there maybe. Man those pines are getting bad.

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Most likely some Introduced genes. Yea man, those valleys are beyond help. Just need to keep them contained eh.

@livetoofish

Жыл бұрын

Still a good chance that its not decended from introduced genes looking at its style. A massive 18 was shot in the next valley over in the early 70's from a helicopter. That long deceased pilot operated in the Rakaia country mostly yet the one from that country was the best they shot out of the helicopter. Bit of history for you..

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome JG. Would there be any photos of it? Would be awesome to see. Might be a far fetched request as I suppose there wasn’t anything like Facebook or instagram to share photos in the 70’s ha. Cheers mate

@livetoofish

Жыл бұрын

No sorry no photo. I've always wanted to see what it was like as well. The pilots old shooter told me about it.

Nice lads. What area?

@chasingpeaks

Жыл бұрын

Spot X 🤪

@FKTHESYSTEM063

Жыл бұрын

Wild guess. Somewhere around the key Te Anau

Nice country. But shame about all the radiata, this is very much how most of our foot hill country is going to look in the next two generations. As hunters we should be vocal about the damage to this country it causes.

@chasingpeaks

4 ай бұрын

Couldn’t agree more! Definitely do our fair share of talking about it. Plus, always pull out a few hundred as you go (Not that it helps much).