Jungle warfare

[TringSaint]

On two of my permissions they are mixed arable and sheep, and to keep the little woolly blighters fed over winter the farmers have planted kale and stubble turnips.
Normally the plants are maybe a foot high at this point, but given the very mild autumn and winter so far, the plants this year ate more like 18” high.
So add in a load of cwd and muntjac and all you see is the tips of ears or the top if the head or back.

Even if one does present for a shot then the next challenge is to find the animal. Difficult in the day, almost impossible in low light!

So far I have spent over an hour just trying to locate 3 carcasses which all dropped within 100m of me (even thermal was no use!) Can’t wait for the sheep to be let loose on it else the cull will be a tough one!!

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Need a dog simple.

 

[CWY308]

Or a thermal

 

[Sol]

I feel you on that one we've got 6 roe on winter kale right now and even those are a bastard too find! they lay down in the stuff and they just vanish the one we've taken off it so far stood up no more than 30 yards from us..

The tops of the kale provides a complete canopy thermal Is completely useless, I think a dog would struggle as well with all the deer activity that goes on underneath it too.

 

[RCS Deer Management]

Or a thermal

Thermal would be next to useless

 

[shakey jake]

Or a thermal

did you read what he wrote?

 

[shakey jake]

Thermal would be next to useless

that was what he said

 

[shbangsteve]

Try a drone. Cover a lot of ground very quickly

 

[tarponhead]

Beaters to a line of guns… European style, if you could do it safely.

 

[RCS Deer Management]

that was what he said

I’m afraid it’s you that isn’t reading comments properly. I was replying to cwy308, not the op

 

[Jh1986]

Deer Santa... Thermal drone please

 

[Freeforester]

Try a drone. Cover a lot of ground very quickly

Preferably thermal capable.

 

[CWY308]

I failed to read the post entirely correctly, my bad
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[Tim.243]

I failed to read the post entirely correctly, my bad
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Go on mention "heads" then the other gang might chime in (a lot) you will get drawings in first and third angle projection lol

 

[shakey jake]

Thermal would be next to useless

sorry i was agreeing with you

 

[TringSaint]

Or a thermal

Had a thermal and still couldn’t find 2 of them!

 

[Norfolk Horn]

You need one of these high drive sniffing machines.
Seriously I drop muntjac in areas of cover which are waist high grass, sedge bracken ets and i cast him out and he finds it.
Like you say thermal of no use.

If no dog you could try placing a stick with a glove or something on it in the shot location then place other sticks in the direction of the animal that way you will at least know you are on the right line.
When I first started if I was in thick woodland I would use pieces of toilet paper in the branches to give me a guide.

 

[Sierra]

Try taking a compass & bearing.

You’ll know how far the shot was so should be able to walk on the bearing for said distance

 

[sh1kar]

I had one place for a while which grew miscanthus. Lost a couple in that, even with the dog

 

[TringSaint]

Preferably thermal capable.

We had a pulsar thermal on two of them and nothing. Zip. Nada.