I came across a mob of deer roaming around the place the other day, 14 or 15 animals, clearly wild.
Now I'm no deer expert and have never hunted them either.
I wus just wondering what type they were.

I know they weren't fallow with the palmed type antlers and spotted hides that are quite common around these parts.
These were around twice that size, the size of a small pony maybe, about the same height as me, with big square blocky bodies.
Antlers were spiky and swept to the rear.
Hides were grey/brown but they were kinda wet at the time.
The stags were roaring like, ok here goes....Wahoooo! 2 or 3 times with emphasis on the ooooo with quite a musical sound really.
Now I'm thinking they're either reds or rusa.
Any ideas?
And no I'm not tellin ya where they were. In the Barossa area anyway.

grey/brown in colour,i would think they are Rusa but i don't know much about deer in OZ

Not 100% sure from your description but I reckon the main contender would be red deer. They are the usual species that pops up every now and then due to their popularity in deer farms. Having said that it could also be Rusa but I cant offer any more idea than that.
Someone who knows both deer better than I could probably tell you from the roaring type.

Give us that roaring sound again?

Wahooooo, Wahooooo, Wahooooo........

I 've heard that reds make a roaring sound, more like a lion or something. They sounded nothing like that, more like a much higher pitched sound you would hear from cattle. Pretty loud too, carries for a few kms.

Reds sound more like cattle bellowing than lions roaring! I would bet they were Red deer from your description...Heres a couple of pics of Red deer:






Rusa deer (see below) are probably more nocturnal the reds as well...

My suggestion is I come to your place , we jointly mount a search for these animals and between us we will a) destroy all of them as they are obviously an agricultural pest species ; and then b) identify what species they are by carefull examination of the now deceased agricultural pest species, prior to c) boning them out and filling your deep freeze with tastey venison .

Oh yeah, red deer for sure looking at those pics...cool thanks for that.
Was often confused by the differences between the two species.

These guys are quite nocturnal though, there are people and farming activities throughout the area so its keeping them shy would be my guess.
They are certainly a large animal, wow!

Might be time to dust off that 1895.....

There are some red deer near where you are, and they would certainly would have been reds.

Probably a release or an escaped herd from a decade ago. I saw a red spiker head a spotlighter brought in with a bunch of fallow does and spikers back then.

If they have some grey brown colour they could also have some wapiti genes as a lot of red stags for velvet production were cross-bred with waps.

Damn good. Red stags, hopefully some get older and escape the arsehole spotlight shooters to grow decent antlers.