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bushnlo 02-27-2010 02:05 PM

Maryland Double Header Fair chase Sika Hunt
 
Check out this great sika hunt our team did last year! Watch as Chad and Toby Otwell harvest, to our knowledge, two of the largest, fair chase Sika stags ever captured on professional video, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1r9_e-NoU

tim03b 02-27-2010 02:26 PM

Whats the story of sika deer in Maryland? I hear they have their own season now and everything.

bushnlo 02-27-2010 02:40 PM


Originally Posted by tim03b (Post 3585376)
Whats the story of sika deer in Maryland? I hear they have their own season now and everything.

They run wild all over very marshy public and private land of Maryland.They are super hard to hunt and they are best tasting deer you can eat.

Krypt Keeper 02-27-2010 03:39 PM

I got to do some Sika hunting a few yrs ago for Assateague Island, wild ponies everywhere and they are some sneaky critters. Want to go back so bad and try it again. It was the last weekend to hunt them and they were nocturnal

bushnlo 02-27-2010 06:39 PM


Originally Posted by Krypt Keeper (Post 3585408)
I got to do some Sika hunting a few yrs ago for Assateague Island, wild ponies everywhere and they are some sneaky critters. Want to go back so bad and try it again. It was the last weekend to hunt them and they were nocturnal

From what I have been told they are almost always nocturnal.

tim03b 02-27-2010 06:42 PM

Im going! I want to hunt one really bad! Whats considered a "big" sika deer?

bushnlo 02-27-2010 07:51 PM


Originally Posted by tim03b (Post 3585514)
Im going! I want to hunt one really bad! Whats considered a "big" sika deer?

A nice 6 point like the ones in the video.

Krypt Keeper 03-01-2010 05:08 PM


Originally Posted by bushnlo (Post 3585513)
From what I have been told they are almost always nocturnal.


that would make sense then. Some buddies who have been before said you almost got to jump them up like rabbits as they stay bedded down in some think stuff.

After 3 days of hunting and not finding anything we were leaving at dark on the 3rd night from Section 5 I believe and had 24 or 25 standing in the road when we went to close out gate.

JoeA 04-02-2010 06:37 PM

Awesome video. Thanks for posting it.

ahunter55 04-05-2010 04:06 PM

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Managed to Bowhunt them several years back in Dorchester County. Once when the were Bugling & another when they were not. lots of blood drawn "BY THE SKEETERS" in those Marshes but not much by me. My son killed a six with no points-all broken off from fighting..nubs where they had been.


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