Critter Pics

07 January 2016, 18:42

Big Wonderful Wyoming

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.

08 January 2016, 02:27

WhelanLad

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

08 January 2016, 09:27

Big Wonderful Wyoming

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!

08 January 2016, 14:26

DenisB

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.

13 January 2016, 06:39

TCLouis

So that is the vocalization of a Sambar?

Can one "honk" one in, like bugling for elk?

14 January 2016, 15:41

WhelanLad

generally speaking, no, the honk is an alarm .
I don't think rusa honk.. not like a sambar anyhow.

scary if unexpected!

WL

15 January 2016, 08:23

Nakihunter

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.

15 January 2016, 10:11

sambarman338

quote:
Originally posted by Nakihunter:
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.

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.