A STAG’S ANTLERS
It is not by any means so easy to shoot a stag as some people think it is. It may entail patient waiting through a Whole season. It may mean long and hard tramps across' rough country, in all sorts of weather. But if in the end you get a "royal” or —still better—a twenty-pointer you will be well repaid for all your labour. There are a few .seventeen to eighteen pointers i about, but they’re rare. If you shoot anything under ten points you aro likely to get into trouble. So you will it yon kill more than four stags, or if you “bag” a hind or fawn at all. Then as for dogs—well, They’re prohibited in New Zealand, although curiously enough, stalkers employ them in Scotland. There, however, their use is rigidly restricted to the tracking of wounded stags. There’s a head in Wellington which carries twenty-two tines. Surely a record! This famous stag is supposed to. have been imported from the Prince Consort’s herd iu Windsor Forest as a young deer, then to have lived in New Zealand for eight or nine years, and finally to have been shot at Tupurupuru, in tho Wairarapa. Take care, and boar in mind what a point is. If you can’t hang a huntingcrop on it, it isn’t a pdint. The Scotch test is whether a door-key can be suspended from the tine.
Even when you are well within sight of your stag, there is much to bo done. You have to stalk him, and that is a task often demanding infinite patience and delicacy. Then, when you have got a good position in range, yon have to shoot him. If you happen to be using inferior ammunition you will probably not succeed in shooting him. Mind, you only got a single chance! Every true sportsman knows that the one cartridge for the deer-staltcr is the "C.A.C.” .303 soft-nosed. When it hits, it kills. It has never been known to misfire. It can be relied on at all times and Odder all conditions. It has, in short, all the qualities that have combined to make "C.A.C," ammunition famous throughout Australasia. •
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 5
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