One problem, you needed to replay the shot more! ha, such a shot! Another tip for gully shooting is I make a landmark where I took the shot from so you can also work out a reverse path, can be big help in thicker scrub. Cheers mate
I like that you take the time to describe your tactics and the challenges that you face, really makes your videos worth watching, don’t change a thing. Well done mate, big thumbs up from me.
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures That's a crazy thought !! with no brake , hows the kick at your end ? great shot love your video's just watched your duck opening ! awsome man !!
Good work man you put in the hard yards scrambling around terrain many won't or can't, plus you lug around camera gear, videos like these motivate me to go harder.
Awsum video mate, fantastic shot. Its all about having the right gear for the job, becoming proficient with said gear and then creating the opertunity to utilise it. And this vid is a perfect example. Great shot.
Really enjoying your videos. Getting some great information on hoping to get amongst them in mid may, have a few boys heading down around mansfield from Newcastle. Can't wait.
Hi Dude ... I love your hunts , I love the exciting footage and I love listening to you talk ... just by listening to you I have learnt so much ... thanks heaps for making the effort to make your excellent videos ... cheers
Awesome vid mate just been away and come home and watched this one. After all that practise you backed yourself to make that shot good job mate. He wasn’t going anywhere after the impact. This is why we trek out spend the time in the bush and do the hard yards for the rewards👍👍
G'day mate been enjoying your content. Would I call it fair chase??... Its Debatable. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Always great getting in the hills after these awesome deer. I certainly couldn't pull off a shot that far. Anyway keep at it zebra.
Awesome hunt mate. You do do it well. Congrats on the stag from my end it looks bloody good. Congrats and well done. Thanks for the video and great footage. Take it easy.
Nice deer man . He was a big bodied stag he looks enormous in the vid . They are always in such good nick just before they strip . They look mint as well if you look after the velvet.
Awesome video as always sir, making me very jealous that out of the last month up in the ranges there I haven't seen a thing... yet 😋 At least I can watch someone making a great go of it and hopefully pick up some tips along the way.
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures I can really appreciate the effort you put in on your hunt’s and making the video. That’s why I Subscribe to you channel and have notifications turn on so I don’t miss a video. Cheers Shaun
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures Definitely, only new to hunting deer, been watching your videos to learn as much as I can before I head out for my first hunt in the Vic high country
I've just read all the comments... who the fk has the right to tell u how far u can shoot a sambar?! Didn't know they made the rules... U didn't break any laws so screw the haters mate!!!
@@wesbennett7137 thanks for your support Wes. 👍 people are entitled to their opinions but probably should just keep it to themselves on matters of personal preferences like hunting styles and personal limitations that they put on themselves.
650m shot taken on a large game animal known to absorb bullets well. It would have immediately been lost it in that country if the shot placement was off. And it appears you don't take the meat out? Perhaps the reason that stag was even there is that others have glassed it from a similar distance and figured (1) too risky a shot, and (2) too hard a job to get all the meat out from that location, and so let it live another day. I know they're introduced/pests etc, but surely a voluntary ethic amongst Sambar hunters of trying to recover substantially all of the meat means more deer and better hunting for everyone?
Hey Sebastion thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts. My opinion on some or your view differ however so Ill take the time to respond. Would you shoot a stag @ 200yds with a 300wm ? My rifle/ammo combo has the same energy @ 640yds as the 300wm 200gn @ 200yds, so although I agree Sambar are tough and can absorb bullets well there are not invisible either. The statement of losing the stag immediately from that distance in that country if the shot placement was off is impossible to predict but for arguments sake the country was quite open so I may have been able to shoot him again quite easily and extremely steep so any wound would of caused him to move down almost certainty., but who knows because that didnt happen he was dead the second he was hit, didnt twitch a leg! I agree that someone may have seen him and said too risky for a shot, but what is risky to me isnt always risky to you or another hunter so what is risky? a deliberate analyzed confident long range shot from a competent rifleman or a off hand moving animal shot @ 100yds from a hunter that gets out a couple times a year? For me knowing my abilities and my equipment there was little to no risk in taking this shot. The recovery of meat is always a conscious dilemma but for remote style pack in hunts its not a viable option so would you rather no one shoots deer that far back in and just let the government cull them from choppers?
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventuresThanks for the civil response. Agree we can't say whether or not it would have been lost. If you're confidently and regularly hitting within vitals at that range (and your results speak for themselves), then I take your point around ethical shooting being all relative to the shooters skill. To your point on the meat, it appears some or most of your backpacking hunt videos are trophy hunts with either only the head or backstraps taken. I acknowledge you're in tough country and you've done the work to get there, but yes, I would rather someone who intends on only taking the head to not shoot a stag and leave it to get bigger for someone who is willing to do the work and make full use of the animal. The animal's death outcomes are not just (1) you shooting it, or (2) heli culling. The other is that someone who is willing to make use of the meat kills it. I'm sure many shooters pass up large stags in hard to access areas for that reason. In a way, you're playing by a different rule set to other Sambar hunters. You would have seen US hunting shows where they spend the 2-3 days hiking in and out from downed game to extract the meat. Why shouldn't we honor the animals death in that way as well? Even the ADA's "Fair Chase Hunting" guidelines say "Don’t waste. If you are going to take an animal, it is your responsibility to make full use of it. If you can’t do this, should you really be taking the shot?" and "Being a trophy hunter does not excuse you from also recovering and using the meat." The ADA recognize that our social license to hunt is in part based on the premise we use the meat. In my view, that social license will eventually be challenged in this country, and publishing videos endorsing head-hunting won't help the cause. I doubt we'll agree on this, but I think it's a good discussion to have.
@@sebastionbach I can only assume you don't backpack hunt? I know of no one that recovers meat from the areas I hunt. I know a lot of people hunting these areas. So therefore you would have no deer shot in these areas by hunters which would inevitably end in culls. The Americans recover meat as part of their Laws requirements of Fish and Game . meat must be presented and weighed along with other details. I know this as I've hunted both Canada and Alaska. Australia has guide lines of an organisation or codes of ethics which leave it up to the individual to make a conscious decision what to do. I doubt our government will ever stop hunting of deer because of hunters not utilising the meat. They are more than happy to cull them from the air with no utilisation of the animals what's so ever, trophy or meat. I don't hide from the fact that I trophy hunt stags, what you don't understand is I let more go than what I pull the trigger on.
Beautiful Rifles. 2 of my hunting mates have the Fierce Fury's in 300Rum and 28 Nosler..they booth shot unbelievable also. that's a cracking shot mate. We'll down keep up the great work. Hunt 🔛🦌🦌
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures looking at upgrading my mossberg ATR 100 in 308 to either 300wsm or 338 any thoughts fyi still a beginner at Sambar hunting . no trophy's as yet . lol cheers JB
@@JamieBroughton70 both calibres you mentioned are capable for all types of Sambar hunting the 338wm is a big gun and requires great discipline to shoot accurately. So will the wsm in a light rifle! A medium weight 300wm would be my GOTO all round rifle with a 3-12 or 3-15 scope.
One problem, you needed to replay the shot more! ha, such a shot! Another tip for gully shooting is I make a landmark where I took the shot from so you can also work out a reverse path, can be big help in thicker scrub. Cheers mate
You can watch it more than once, ha ha. thanks for your comment.
I like that you take the time to describe your tactics and the challenges that you face, really makes your videos worth watching, don’t change a thing. Well done mate, big thumbs up from me.
I appreciate that! awesome to hear your feedback!
Practice makes perfect. Lovely shot mate. That rifle certainly hits like Thors hammer. Keep up the good work.
Shes a hammer alright if you run the numbers its the equivalent @ 600yds as a 30/06 @ the muzzle!
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures That's a crazy thought !! with no brake , hows the kick at your end ? great shot love your video's just watched your duck opening ! awsome man !!
@@SuperLislis the recoil is severe with no brake certainly not for the faint of heart! 😬
Good work man you put in the hard yards scrambling around terrain many won't or can't, plus you lug around camera gear, videos like these motivate me to go harder.
I appreciate that! Hope people can appreciate the effort it takes to make these videos and support the channels making them by subscribing ,
Love hearing that wack come back. Could hear the big exhale pre shot also. Great to see some honest people leaving tree cameras on the tree.!
Yeah the whack was awesome to here live! I dont lock my cameras so if someone comes along I hope they look but leave.
Couldn’t of come together any better! Great shot
Thanks mate yeah all worked out to a tee!
A very nice stag, great shot and video thanks for taking us along.
Glad you enjoyed it Hank. Thanks for commenting
Awsum video mate, fantastic shot. Its all about having the right gear for the job, becoming proficient with said gear and then creating the opertunity to utilise it.
And this vid is a perfect example. Great shot.
You nailed it ! Cheers for watching
Really enjoying your videos.
Getting some great information on hoping to get amongst them in mid may, have a few boys heading down around mansfield from Newcastle.
Can't wait.
Thanks for watching and good luck with your hunt
Hi Dude ... I love your hunts , I love the exciting footage and I love listening to you talk ... just by listening to you I have learnt so much ... thanks heaps for making the effort to make your excellent videos ... cheers
Awesome thank you! love feed back like this makes it all worth while
Thankyou 🙂
Nice work Zeb. Look forward to bumping into you at H&S one day. Don’t change what you’re doing 👌👍
thanks mate. look forward to it
Awesome mate, congrats. Perfect example of ‘good comes to those that wait’. Looking forward to the next instalment 🦌🦌
Thanks 👍 I had time up my sleeve on this one.
Awesome vid mate just been away and come home and watched this one. After all that practise you backed yourself to make that shot good job mate. He wasn’t going anywhere after the impact. This is why we trek out spend the time in the bush and do the hard yards for the rewards👍👍
Thanks Jonesy happy you enjoyed this one.
Sure did mate and left a comment on your survey too. Don’t stop making vids mate some can’t handle the way and outcomes of different hunters mate.
@@jonsey300 thanks brother 👊
G'day mate been enjoying your content.
Would I call it fair chase??...
Its Debatable.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Always great getting in the hills after these awesome deer. I certainly couldn't pull off a shot that far. Anyway keep at it zebra.
No worries thanks for watching and making a comment
I reckon I know where you where.....I could have swore I saw someone like you on the hike near Shaw creek? nice shot and a good stag!
Ha ha nice try Richard, thanks for watching.
Bloody good shot Zeb, awesome production as usual cheers
Hey Justin thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
Awesome hunt mate. You do do it well. Congrats on the stag from my end it looks bloody good. Congrats and well done. Thanks for the video and great footage. Take it easy.
Awesome feedback thanks
Nice deer man . He was a big bodied stag he looks enormous in the vid . They are always in such good nick just before they strip . They look mint as well if you look after the velvet.
He was in as good a condition as you could get ! He was a big animal with a full belly
So good mate and what brilliant shot placement. Happy Days.
It was money!
Good vid mate - well done keep em coming.
Thanks, will do!
Mate u give new hunters the best info from a old hunter go u👍
Thanks 👍
Great shot! Good patience.
Thank you for commenting and watching the vids.
Not sure how you shoot one of those 30/06 knocks me around enough 👌 great vid
😆 you grit your teeth hold on for dear life and hope for the best 😬 that's without the brake on, it's a pussy cat with the T3 brake on!
Nice stag and video, well done.
Thanks for watching
Love ya work man, keep them coming.
Thanks, will do!
Awesome video as always sir, making me very jealous that out of the last month up in the ranges there I haven't seen a thing... yet 😋
At least I can watch someone making a great go of it and hopefully pick up some tips along the way.
Thanks SKay what area are you hunting?
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures We've been up around Kevington, Jamieson, Howqua, and we're starting to move further east in toward Licola.
@@skay9443 yeah righto I have zero experience in those areas but Licola I could help you out if you switch over FB or Instagram pm me.
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures That'd be awesome mate. I'm not on Facebook, but I'll jump over to Instagram :)
mate ur videos make me itch to get to victoria asap and chase these magnificent animals. need to get vic hunting licence sorted badly
glad to know Ive spurred the hunter in you to look for adventure
Awesome shot on that stag ,dropped like a sack of spuds 👍love your vids
Cheers Scott 👍didn't even twitch!
Nice one mate and another great video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it thanks for commenting
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures I can really appreciate the effort you put in on your hunt’s and making the video. That’s why I Subscribe to you channel and have notifications turn on so I don’t miss a video. Cheers Shaun
@@shaundumper8507 awesome to hear thanks for your sub 👊
Really enjoyed this. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good stuff mate
Cheers Tony
Awesome mate love ya work 🤙🤙
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video mate really enjoying the content
Glad to hear it, hope you Subbed ?
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures Definitely, only new to hunting deer, been watching your videos to learn as much as I can before I head out for my first hunt in the Vic high country
@@jaydenmccann7034 awesome good luck 🦌👍
Another great informative video, nice one.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching
Shot. Great patience and great finish
Bang flop didn't goooo 20. ha ha
Bloody awesome mate well done ripper stag to boot great shot aswell.. practice makes perfect 😎😁😁
Practice practice practice ! thanks for watching
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures no problem I enjoy them all mate
What a ripper shot.
nice work with the vid..
Thanks Dave cheers for the comments
Gees that thing hits hard
like Thor's hammer
Excellent vid with great explanations. bl00dy nice long range shot 👍
Thanks Wes
I've just read all the comments... who the fk has the right to tell u how far u can shoot a sambar?! Didn't know they made the rules... U didn't break any laws so screw the haters mate!!!
@@wesbennett7137 thanks for your support Wes. 👍 people are entitled to their opinions but probably should just keep it to themselves on matters of personal preferences like hunting styles and personal limitations that they put on themselves.
Couldnt agree more. All the effort that goes into making these vids... dont attack someone if they havent broken a law!
Cracker of a shot mate 👍🦌
cheers mate
Good shot mate
Yeah I was pretty stoked too !
Awesome vid mate well done
Glad you enjoyed
Some shot there! Loved it!
Glad you enjoyed the vid thanks for watching
Great shot mate and a nice Stag for your effort and then the struggle through that shit terrain well done
Thanks Rod I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Nice shot!
Practice paying off 👍 thanks for watching
Well done mate.
Cheers mate
Pole axed him mate, Well done !!!
The old dirt nap !
Great shot what gun you shooting
Hey mate this deer was shot with a Fierce carbon fury in 338lap and 270gn ELD-X projectiles
Another quality vid👍
Glad you enjoyed it
ps that Matt bloke seems like a flog
@@aaaaaaaaaaaa840 he is what he is no comment
great vid . tell me how arte you finding that carbon fibre barrell asofar
Hey Evan at first I was a bit worried it wouldn't be very durable but after having it for 2 years I can't see any wear or damage to the carbon at all.
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures Thank you
Love your ethics... watch all your videos!
Thanks for the support Tom ! 👍🦌
650m shot taken on a large game animal known to absorb bullets well. It would have immediately been lost it in that country if the shot placement was off. And it appears you don't take the meat out? Perhaps the reason that stag was even there is that others have glassed it from a similar distance and figured (1) too risky a shot, and (2) too hard a job to get all the meat out from that location, and so let it live another day. I know they're introduced/pests etc, but surely a voluntary ethic amongst Sambar hunters of trying to recover substantially all of the meat means more deer and better hunting for everyone?
Hey Sebastion thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts. My opinion on some or your view differ however so Ill take the time to respond.
Would you shoot a stag @ 200yds with a 300wm ?
My rifle/ammo combo has the same energy @ 640yds as the 300wm 200gn @ 200yds, so although I agree Sambar are tough and can absorb bullets well there are not invisible either.
The statement of losing the stag immediately from that distance in that country if the shot placement was off is impossible to predict but for arguments sake the country was quite open so I may have been able to shoot him again quite easily and extremely steep so any wound would of caused him to move down almost certainty., but who knows because that didnt happen he was dead the second he was hit, didnt twitch a leg! I agree that someone may have seen him and said too risky for a shot, but what is risky to me isnt always risky to you or another hunter so what is risky? a deliberate analyzed confident long range shot from a competent rifleman or a off hand moving animal shot @ 100yds from a hunter that gets out a couple times a year? For me knowing my abilities and my equipment there was little to no risk in taking this shot.
The recovery of meat is always a conscious dilemma but for remote style pack in hunts its not a viable option so would you rather no one shoots deer that far back in and just let the government cull them from choppers?
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventuresThanks for the civil response. Agree we can't say whether or not it would have been lost. If you're confidently and regularly hitting within vitals at that range (and your results speak for themselves), then I take your point around ethical shooting being all relative to the shooters skill. To your point on the meat, it appears some or most of your backpacking hunt videos are trophy hunts with either only the head or backstraps taken. I acknowledge you're in tough country and you've done the work to get there, but yes, I would rather someone who intends on only taking the head to not shoot a stag and leave it to get bigger for someone who is willing to do the work and make full use of the animal. The animal's death outcomes are not just (1) you shooting it, or (2) heli culling. The other is that someone who is willing to make use of the meat kills it. I'm sure many shooters pass up large stags in hard to access areas for that reason. In a way, you're playing by a different rule set to other Sambar hunters. You would have seen US hunting shows where they spend the 2-3 days hiking in and out from downed game to extract the meat. Why shouldn't we honor the animals death in that way as well? Even the ADA's "Fair Chase Hunting" guidelines say "Don’t waste. If you are going to take an animal, it is your responsibility to make full use of it. If you can’t do this, should you really be taking the shot?" and "Being a trophy hunter does not excuse you from also recovering and using the meat."
The ADA recognize that our social license to hunt is in part based on the premise we use the meat. In my view, that social license will eventually be challenged in this country, and publishing videos endorsing head-hunting won't help the cause. I doubt we'll agree on this, but I think it's a good discussion to have.
@@sebastionbach I can only assume you don't backpack hunt? I know of no one that recovers meat from the areas I hunt. I know a lot of people hunting these areas. So therefore you would have no deer shot in these areas by hunters which would inevitably end in culls.
The Americans recover meat as part of their Laws requirements of Fish and Game . meat must be presented and weighed along with other details. I know this as I've hunted both Canada and Alaska.
Australia has guide lines of an organisation or codes of ethics which leave it up to the individual to make a conscious decision what to do. I doubt our government will ever stop hunting of deer because of hunters not utilising the meat. They are more than happy to cull them from the air with no utilisation of the animals what's so ever, trophy or meat. I don't hide from the fact that I trophy hunt stags, what you don't understand is I let more go than what I pull the trigger on.
Great stag mate, what rifle you running there and what projectiles. how far was the shot across gully?
Hey Leigh that rifle is a Fierce carbon fury 338 Lapua shooting 270gn ELD-X @ 2962 FPS AVG 640yd shot
Beautiful Rifles. 2 of my hunting mates have the Fierce Fury's in 300Rum and 28 Nosler..they booth shot unbelievable also. that's a cracking shot mate. We'll down keep up the great work. Hunt 🔛🦌🦌
absolutely Awesome
Thanks mate love the feedback
What was the distance you shot him?
640yds
Nice vid mate, thanks. How big did it measure?
He had a little bit to grow but as is he was 24 x 25 x 32 1/2"
Great shot . what size he end up and what calibre you using. Another awesome video thanks for sharing. 👍JB
Hey Jamie he measured 24x24 1/2 x32 1/2" Im using a 338 Lapua with 270gn ELD-X
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures looking at upgrading my mossberg ATR 100 in 308 to either 300wsm or 338 any thoughts fyi still a beginner at Sambar hunting . no trophy's as yet . lol cheers JB
@@JamieBroughton70 both calibres you mentioned are capable for all types of Sambar hunting the 338wm is a big gun and requires great discipline to shoot accurately. So will the wsm in a light rifle! A medium weight 300wm would be my GOTO all round rifle with a 3-12 or 3-15 scope.
You're rocking a Fierce? Didn't know they sold in Australia. I pick mine up in a couple of months.
Yeah mate we got them but not in huge supply. Which model and cal did you order?
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures Carbon Rival in 6.5 PRC. Good for the Utah Mountains.
@@scottclarke7950 the rivals look awesome. I'd really like a 300 prc but how many guns does one man need ?
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures One more is always the answer ;)
@@scottclarke7950 😆
What scope you using mate ?
hey mate its a Leupold VX6 3-18x50
Cracker shot congrats nice job keep it up
Cheers Cameron...Hey you dont have family in Stratford do you? I married a Tait
@@ZebrasSambarhuntingAdventures no buddy from the Yarra Valley and myrtleford at present