Traveling home from my leave, have the wife in the car, AND 20km south of Cooma on the side of the road in the middle of the Monaro Plains with not a tree within 5km, a bloody Sambar spiker!

I was very excited

Thats great Bakesy,did he have a hole in his dial like this after you shot him lol?

Mate I was pumping along at 100kph, towing a trailer. Not even enough time to stop and try for a photo. Wife thought it was a horse at first Antlers would've been about 30cm.

Bloody typical. You spot a sambar spiker, and Gryph gos and shoots it.

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Originally posted by Bakes:

I was very excited

I get excited seeing sambar at any time too cobber.

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Bloody typical. You spot a sambar spiker, and Gryph gos and shoots it.

yep,out the window on the bitumen in the Nat Park...easiest ones.

I'm not sure what all the laws are these days. Educate me. I was under the impression that sanbar were considered endangered + thus the horns could not be sold. If that is incorrect, then if someone shot one on a hunt, could the horns be brought back stateside? I'm not going hunting there but this is just a question of interest.

I brought two sets of sambar antlers out of aussie a few years back. I tried to find out at airport if there was any restriction, and they looked at me like i was mad- Its an introduced species, we dont care was the essence of it.

As Shanks says...nil restrictions. Its why we have an every day of the year season..no limits on numbers,sex or age.

Interesting to know. I bought my son a set of sanbar antlers years ago + he made them into grips for a Ruger Vaquero birdshead. They were beautiful. But those antlers were pricey here in Texas.

Randy: check your pms, a week old. '

George