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Sika from 2013
02 December 2014, 00:07
SGraves155Sika from 2013
Hunted south of Ft. Smith, AR on Backbone Mountain Ranch east of Poteau, OK. He's got hogs, whitetails and exotics. I shot this nice sika from a stand one cold January morning.
02 December 2014, 03:40
bwanamrmDarn nice sika stag Steve. They look like miniature red stags!
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03 December 2014, 04:28
JPKNice!
If we saw one like that in MD we would all have heart attacks!
Our sika strain is from one of the smaller Japanese Islands and they just don't grow that big. Anything over six points is very, very rare as well.
Funny, but even though they are smaller than our whitetails they are dominant over them.
Around here an "average" three or four year old eight pointer whitetail would go about 140-160lbs dressed. An older, really big buck might go over 200lbs dressed. The heaviest sika from MD that I have heard of was 140lbs dressed.
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03 December 2014, 08:34
Austin HunterThat's a nice woolly booger!
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03 December 2014, 08:36
SGraves155Here he is on the wall.
03 December 2014, 08:51
NakihunterJPK, Interesting you should say that the Sika dominate the larger whitetails. I understand that the Chital deer also dominate the whitetails in the US.
here in NZ the Sika was introduced in one area in the North Island in 1905 while the reds were introduced at least 40 years earlier and in many locations. On an average the red deer are at least 50% bigger. But the sika stag will chase a red stag off and take over the hinds. In the core sika areas we have had red hybrids over the years and the the top sika stags seem to be getting larger.
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03 December 2014, 19:21
JPKWhat would a typical "nice" NZ sika weigh dressed?
Also, anyone know what a good TX sika weighs dressed?
Also, a mature trophy class MD sika stag is almost black. The darker the sika the older he is and the better top hamper he's likely to have as well. And they usually have pretty heavy manes, also thicker as they age.
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09 December 2014, 05:34
NakihunterThat is a huge NZ sika.
I would say an average mature 3+ year stag will weigh 100kg+ live. Slightly smaller than a Chital stag.
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Originally posted by JPK:
What would a typical "nice" NZ sika weigh dressed?
Also, anyone know what a good TX sika weighs dressed?
Also, a mature trophy class MD sika stag is almost black. The darker the sika the older he is and the better top hamper he's likely to have as well. And they usually have pretty heavy manes, also thicker as they age.
JPK
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13 December 2014, 03:16
JPKHoly shamole, that sika is beyond huge! The weight is more than double the typical weight of our MD sika.
Our sika are also marsh deer,they love our native shotrt grass marshes and also invasive fragmite.
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