lee-stroud
Well-Known Member
well this morning set off at 4am to meet ian and jo for there cwd stalking to be there for 6.45 only to find when i left it was only an hour away then waking ian up at half 5 because i could,nt find the travelogde which i then found i was only about 200m away down the road any way after me messing around ian came out to meet me, a hello ect we set off early to be in the seat b4 light,
so now in the seat ian along side we waited for day break pheasants cluking wrens keep catching my eye day light was with us but nothing was out any where in front of us,
after half hour ian seen a deer dart past behind the seat throw the trees so decision was made to climb down and stalk the deer hoping to cut it off,
but like any time im out things never go to plan ,
no deer lol
so ian said we would walk the edge of the tree line so off we went again had only been walking 5 mins when i spotted movement throw the trees pointed it to ian who had now got the sticks up , soon followed by me following the deer in my scope could not get a clean shoot because of the trees but could see a gap in front as it reached the gap ian whistled deer stoped 100grn 243 bullet off report back deer down but was a lot of jumping about back fwd ect ready to take another shot but movment stopped ian got to the deer first and from the look on his face some thin was not write as i got there wont repeat what he said lol could see the tusks stright away it was a cracking buck but now missing half its face feeling well and truley gutted tryed to work out what had happened,
agreed with ian bullet had been sent of course my a branch, just enough to go high i only had the neck and bit of front leg in view throw the gap so the fact i got a head shot stunned me a bit at first.
any way had a great day and my first chinese water deer so a big thanks to ian and jo
lee
pictures to follow when i work out how
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so now in the seat ian along side we waited for day break pheasants cluking wrens keep catching my eye day light was with us but nothing was out any where in front of us,
after half hour ian seen a deer dart past behind the seat throw the trees so decision was made to climb down and stalk the deer hoping to cut it off,
but like any time im out things never go to plan ,
no deer lol
so ian said we would walk the edge of the tree line so off we went again had only been walking 5 mins when i spotted movement throw the trees pointed it to ian who had now got the sticks up , soon followed by me following the deer in my scope could not get a clean shoot because of the trees but could see a gap in front as it reached the gap ian whistled deer stoped 100grn 243 bullet off report back deer down but was a lot of jumping about back fwd ect ready to take another shot but movment stopped ian got to the deer first and from the look on his face some thin was not write as i got there wont repeat what he said lol could see the tusks stright away it was a cracking buck but now missing half its face feeling well and truley gutted tryed to work out what had happened,
agreed with ian bullet had been sent of course my a branch, just enough to go high i only had the neck and bit of front leg in view throw the gap so the fact i got a head shot stunned me a bit at first.
any way had a great day and my first chinese water deer so a big thanks to ian and jo
lee
pictures to follow when i work out how
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