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few pics of recent hunts     Cheers for the content on the forums. my Thanks. Cheers Whelanlad | ||
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Respectable Sambar, I miss Australia, and more importantly I miss Sambar hunting. Hunting Sambar has to be the best high and low in the hunting world. | |||
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yes, too true regarding the highs and lows... when it rains it pours, so it seems on my journey. I tried sending you a pm in regards to the north east but it was declined. ill try again later. theres a video of the bottom sambar on youtube, https://youtu.be/DbM-R5A8cA4 cheers WL | |||
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3rMO1pdqg I about laughed myself to death. I will never forget walking up to a patch of tea tree and having one of the bastards honk at me. I almost crapped my pants. Thought a tractor-trailer was coming at me through the woods. Thanks for the video. Great stuff! | |||
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Rusa honking at close range is a regular occurrence at my cabin in the Royal NP. Coming back from a nightfishing exercise it never fails to get the adrenaline pumping & take 1/2 a year from your life.  | |||
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So that is the vocalization of a Sambar? Can one "honk" one in, like bugling for elk? Don't limit your challenges . . . Challenge your limits | |||
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generally speaking, no, the honk is an alarm . I don't think rusa honk.. not like a sambar anyhow. scary if unexpected! WL | |||
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The alarm call of a Sambar is called a "bell". Stags "bell' with a metallic sound at the end. I have been scared out of wits at less than 10 meters in India. Even in India you get considerable variation in size of body and antler from region to region. I have seen some real monsters in Soth Indian Western Ghat hills. I have also seen them in the Himalayas at over 10,000 ft elevation. I never shot one but I was on a beat shoot when a hind was shot in 1976. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Corbett used to refer to the bell as a ponk , which I like because it gives some idea of the suddenness with which it starts and finishes - the kind of thing that does make a spare pair of underpants a useful addition to your daypack  I have never heard of anyone calling them in with belling, and the noise is impossible to imitate. However, I have heard it may be possible to attract them by rattling antlers. | |||
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With the floppy hat and red plaid shirt one would fit right in northern Wisconsin.  | |||
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