I was recently looking through some of my fathers old hunting pics and come across a stag with odd throwbacks on both antlers.

A bit of research and digging around and i found out about the Windsor great park throwback. But although i found out what it was i was struggling to find any real great info about it, anyone know much? I also managed to find the head hanging up on a fence.
Was wondering how common the throwbacks are? Have any of you other hunters shot a stag with such throwbacks before?

Taken in Kaikoura in the early 1980's and despite how it looks i have been assured its a pure wild red stag no wap in it. 












Cheers HG 

Banwell's book "The Royal stags of Windsor" gives full detail on the Windsor throwbacks in N.Z.. You could get the book thru your library.  They occur in several parts of N.Z., including the Wairarapa. Some members may have attended NZDA National conference in Masterton in July -- I prepared a display of 15 Windsor throwbacks shot in the Wairarapa. I have a folder of the photos but posting them via Photobucket would be too difficult.  I shot a nice one last year in the Wilberforce.

This is some of the comments from Bruce Banwells book ,The Royal Stags of Windsor.Its a characteristic which shows in antlers of stags originating from Windsor park strain ".The three survivours of the original six deer shipped to New Zealand accentuated three charactreristics more prevelent in NewZealand than anywhere else in the world.(colour variation,the windsor rose, and the windsor throwback)".It appears  more commonly on the right antler behind the trey tine and can be as long as twelve inches or more.He says in his book that the throwback is found  in Hungary , Poland and Germany.It is thought that Germany supplied Windsor park some of the original bloodlines.Interesting reading.Apparently common around the Wairarapa.Makes a good trophy even more special if you can get one.If you can get hold of one of his Nz Deer heads books youll see the throwback evident on some of those massive heads.

crikey hes seen a few roars ethos!

The red head that has always intrigued me is the one on the Makino Hut in the Kawekas. Has anyone got a picture??

Thanks for the replies guys, definitely is a neat looking oddity that's a lot more common then i would have ever thought.
Grandad i remember seeing your great stag with the counter parting throwbacks. I might just have to get my hands on that book and have a good read.
Ethos was that stag shot around here also?

Dodgy German genes known to occasionally reside at Windsor..............Hmmmm, sounds familiar 

Those are both fantastic stags, and examples of the throwback. Thanks for sharing Grandad