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Stag Saturday - Let's See Some Traditional Stag!

Yankee Jacks with Shields

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My rotation schedule didn't assign me any stag examples to carry this week, which makes me kinda sad. :(
But I'll post a couple photos of a stag knife I have that makes me even MORE sad when it comes up as a knife for me to carry for a week! :eek:🤓
It's a Frost Miller Brothers mini copperhead, and it tries its best to give stag a bad name:
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- GT
 
I believe I have the photos working. As an Aussie hunter I have access to sambar and red stag, although I'm more partial to reds from an eating and hunting perspective.
Here is a side by side of the antler structure between sambar (left) and red stag (right).



I've also hunted hog deer and chital, it seems Asiatic deer which include the above and sambar generally have linear ridges running the length of their antlers.

European species such as red and fallow have the more mottled pearling.

Near the base of the antler toward the coronet sambar can and do have some pearling, but I've never seen it to the extent of a red stag. Same goes vice versa.

Just a little tid bit of useless information for you all to add to your collection.
 
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