45/70 for stalking

I went out again this morning, after heavy rain during the preceding 36hrs.

It was very wet and so hard to stalk quietly with the mud sucking at my heels!

The wind had also changed, necessitating a challenging approach to suitable hunting ground (got a real jolt crawling under an electric fence!)



Lots of deer around and eventually got one in a shootable position after a crawl to within 35yds.

Unfortunately, the ground was no drier there!





Dragged the carcass out for the gralloch and then carried it out to a road (too wet to risk the Mule).



45-70 getting it done.
 
I went out again this morning, after heavy rain during the preceding 36hrs.

It was very wet and so hard to stalk quietly with the mud sucking at my heels!

The wind had also changed, necessitating a challenging approach to suitable hunting ground (got a real jolt crawling under an electric fence!)



Lots of deer around and eventually got one in a shootable position after a crawl to within 35yds.

Unfortunately, the ground was no drier there!





Dragged the carcass out for the gralloch and then carried it out to a road (too wet to risk the Mule).



45-70 getting it done.
Great shots (both with the camera and rifle!) and nice hunt. Clearly we’re not the only ones with excessively wet weather…
 
I have had an eye peeled for a Siamese action for twenty years... Still looking...
I found a really nice one , unfortunately it belongs to a certain well armed Montana resident who might not take kindly to me trying to knobble it .................... Muir ( cough ) .

AB
 
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