16-POINTER STAG
SOUTHERN STALKER'S PRIZE [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] INVERCARGILL, Thursday During the two and a-half years he has been in Invercargill, Mr. A. E. Walsh has shot 150 deer, but it was not \infcil the last roaring season that he secured the best stag of the period. This was a 16-pointer with an antler spread of 42§in. It has been mounted on a champion rifle shield won by Mr. Walsh, who is an expert marksman. The prize was carried through eight miles of bush, the journey taking Mr. Walsh six hours. The antlers are of great timber, whitened at the points through constant crashing through the bush. Most of the stags shot in Southland are of light brown colour, but this aristocrat of the forest has unusually black hair tipped with white. Mr. Walsh has been stalking in various parts of/, New Zealand for the last 15 years. It is seldom that the Government cullers encounter a 16-pointer,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23072, 24 June 1938, Page 12
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