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About Red Deer hunting
Red deer is the royal game of Europe, and is found in most European countries. Carefully preserved by kings and princes, red deer survived the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and thrives over Europe. Portugal and Spain, Poland and Belarus, Germany and the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria - it would be hard to name a European country that doesn’t have any red deer hunting. Further east, in the mountains of Kazakhstan and the Asian parts of Russia you find the maral stag, which is also a variety of the red deer (unlike the izubr, which is a variety of wapiti). Europeans introduced red deer to other continents as well, and red deer hunting opportunities in Argentina, Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand don’t leave anything to the Old World.
Where to hunt Red Deer
Red deer is the royal game of Europe, and is found in most European countries. Carefully preserved by kings and princes, red deer survived the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and thrives over Europe. Portugal and Spain, Poland and Belarus, Germany and the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria - it would be hard to name a European country that doesn’t have any red deer hunting. Further east, in the mountains of Kazakhstan and the Asian parts of Russia you find the maral stag, which is also a variety of the red deer (unlike the izubr, which is a variety of wapiti). Europeans introduced red deer to other continents as well, and red deer hunting opportunities in Argentina, Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand don’t leave anything to the Old World.
Price distribution
The most affordable red deer hunting opportunities are to be found in Eastern Europe. In countries like Belarus and Poland you can hunt a red deer for $600-$1000. But mind the trophy fees - those aren’t usually included in the listed price of the hunt, and may vary greatly with antler size from $300-$500 for an indifferent trophy to $3,000-$5,000 for a medal class crown, and up to $10,000 for a record book entry. Most red deer hunting adventures in Argentina and New Zealand are priced between $5,000 and $10,000, and may come as a flat trophy fee or as a combination with other species. Cow and cull/management hunts are an affordable way to be introduced to red deer hunting.
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Centuries of red deer hunting in Europe developed a set of unique hunting traditions. One of them is the Monteria, a big driven hunt peculiar to the Iberian peninsula. Evolved from village hunt to a royal chase, run according to ancient tradition and ritual, fabulously rich in harvest opportunities - what is it about, and how do you behave should you decide to participate in one?
Jun 7, 2018
Monteria: Hunting like a king!
When to hunt Red Deer?
In Europe, red deer hunting season typically starts in August or September, and runs until November or December. The best season to hunt the royal stag is, of course, the rut, when the forests are shaken with his mighty roar. In the Southern Hemisphere the seasons are shifted proportionally, and the rut usually occurs in March, and the season running into August.
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Hunting methods
Spot-and-stalk hunting was perfected by the British aristocracy on the open hills of Scotland, and is widely practiced for hunting red deer where they inhabit the more or less open terrain. The hunter is usually accompanied by a guide that will direct the stalk and estimate the size of the stag. Red deer are also taken during the traditionally European driven hunts. But by far the best red deer hunt is by calling a stag in during the rut.
Meet your guides
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Jim Gibson
New Zealand
Experience professionally guided high quality safaris on our large private high country stations, home to game animals that have populated the river valleys and mountain tops since their introduction in the mid 1800's. Our personalised hunts cater for single hunters, families or small groups of all ages and abilities staying at our hunting lodge or private ranch cabins.
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Red Deer Herd
Nice herd os Red Deer at New Zealand Trophy hunting
Stag roar
Stag capture on a trail camera roaring at a feeding spot
Red Deer scratch
How Red Deer get their dark antlers
Red Deer Calling
Red Deer in a calling contest
Red Stag in Rut
Red Stag rut in New Zealand has begun for 2023, these huge stags start roaring from early March through until mid April showing off their domanace like this huge typical Stag that will have an antler score of between 460-480 inches. New Zealand Safaris has among the highest quality of Stags in the world across many privately owned properties. Red Stag rut is world renowned and New Zealand Safaris offers some of the highest quality hunts in the country for those that seek the adventure of lifetime.
White Red Deer
Danish red Stag, these white deer are not common in Red Stags but some herds have a gene. The likes of this non typical Stag will be one of the larger White Stags you will see, especially with drop Tynes like this he certainly is one of a kind.
Red Deer in Mist
Huge Red Deer bull on a misty hill
Stags Grazing
Two beautiful stags grazing in New Zealand
Red Deer
The amazing sound of a Red Deer calling
Red Deer
The roar or rut is when the stags are most vocal, calling to attract the attention of hinds and are less cautious than other times.
Red Deer running
Red Deer running over the rolling hills in Argentina
Red Deer Roar
Close-up footage of a Red Deer Roaring
Red Stag Roar
The guttural roar of a mating red stag is the Old World’s equivalent to the three-note lilting bugle of the wapiti…but although the two animals are closely related, their challenge calls are totally different.
Why hunt Red Deer?
Red deer has been the most prized big-game animal in Europe for thousands of years. Pendants made of red deer canines were a prestigious decoration during the Neolith, and in some medieval kingdoms you could be fined for killing a man and hanged for poaching a deer. Was it because of the exceptional taste and nutritional value of the venison? Or the grace and power of the monarch of the woods? Join the red deer hunting tradition; stalk the hills of the pampas, or face the challenge of the royal stag in a traditional European fashion, and find out for yourself.
Free-range Fair Chase Red Stag Package
Argentina
Red deer
Rifle Hunting, Stalking
Season: Mar 1, 26 - Apr 30, 26
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for 5 days, 1 hunter
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