Hi Guys,
I am fairly new to deer and quite keen, going out with my rifle on average maybe one morning in 10 but I only have two 5 acres pieces of woodland to shoot over. I am looking for advice as to how long you would leave it before going hunting again if you were in my situation, having overdone it a bit of late.
I have been unlucky on one piece of land for a while now and so I have had a good tinker there, taking a high seat away and putting another one in a different place. In the last two weeks, I have visited once to hunt but only achieved getting barked at by a Muntjac and then I have been twice to tinker.
The other piece has been more productive. In the last two weeks I have visited twice and shot three Roe does, two on the same spot of the same trail.
Both pieces of land are quite awkward when it comes to finding safe shots and so my activity is concentrated within certain areas. The pieces of land are within half a mile of each other and are part of the same "deer corridor" running between attractive feeding areas, other woodland and a nature reserve. I have a camera in each wood and I often see the same animals on both cameras.
I am new to the hobby and keen. I have never shot a Muntjac buck and there have been both a big one and a small one in both my cameras for the last two weeks. But I have really been and stirred everything up now trying to get either but settling for the Roe when they appeared. I don't want to spoil things. For how long would you recommend that I restrain myself before going out again with a rifle? Which parcel of woodland would you then go back to first? -The one where they seem to have been rumbling you but where you have tinkered or the one which you have recently made smell of death?
Cheers,
Paul
I am fairly new to deer and quite keen, going out with my rifle on average maybe one morning in 10 but I only have two 5 acres pieces of woodland to shoot over. I am looking for advice as to how long you would leave it before going hunting again if you were in my situation, having overdone it a bit of late.
I have been unlucky on one piece of land for a while now and so I have had a good tinker there, taking a high seat away and putting another one in a different place. In the last two weeks, I have visited once to hunt but only achieved getting barked at by a Muntjac and then I have been twice to tinker.
The other piece has been more productive. In the last two weeks I have visited twice and shot three Roe does, two on the same spot of the same trail.
Both pieces of land are quite awkward when it comes to finding safe shots and so my activity is concentrated within certain areas. The pieces of land are within half a mile of each other and are part of the same "deer corridor" running between attractive feeding areas, other woodland and a nature reserve. I have a camera in each wood and I often see the same animals on both cameras.
I am new to the hobby and keen. I have never shot a Muntjac buck and there have been both a big one and a small one in both my cameras for the last two weeks. But I have really been and stirred everything up now trying to get either but settling for the Roe when they appeared. I don't want to spoil things. For how long would you recommend that I restrain myself before going out again with a rifle? Which parcel of woodland would you then go back to first? -The one where they seem to have been rumbling you but where you have tinkered or the one which you have recently made smell of death?
Cheers,
Paul