cookingfat
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Got a call from a mate this morning about 8am on my way to work at a local sooting school, he had shot and wounded a roe doe and could not find it, he said there was a little blood and a pice of bone at the shot sight.
I told him to mark the shot sight and i would have a look with one of the pups after lunch when i had finnished work.
got to the shot sight about 3pm witch was in the middle of a 80 acre wood, not much blood but 5 pices of bone and a lot of hair, had a look in the hair book and worked out it was from one of its legs, followed blood spots for about 20 yards then spots about every 10-15 feet, this one was very mobile, this was not going to be easy for my young pup, after some 40 minutes of one and going back on the trail we came to a spot where there was a lot more blood then there had been, probable where she had stoped for a wile, the trail then came to the edge of the wood and we are looking over a big field of rape witch was a bit of a problem as it was the farm boundery, the pup was telling us the trail went out across the field, put the bins up and sure enough there was a deer layed up on the far hedge about 150 yards out sitting up but not looking to happy, phoned the keeper to ask if i could follow it up, he said yes, did not wont to take the dog out to it in case it got up and ran again and as the pup is not capable of bringing it down yet i took the shot from the wood, the shot was good and the doe was distpatched.
the pup then followed the trail out to the deer and she got her reward.
I told him to mark the shot sight and i would have a look with one of the pups after lunch when i had finnished work.
got to the shot sight about 3pm witch was in the middle of a 80 acre wood, not much blood but 5 pices of bone and a lot of hair, had a look in the hair book and worked out it was from one of its legs, followed blood spots for about 20 yards then spots about every 10-15 feet, this one was very mobile, this was not going to be easy for my young pup, after some 40 minutes of one and going back on the trail we came to a spot where there was a lot more blood then there had been, probable where she had stoped for a wile, the trail then came to the edge of the wood and we are looking over a big field of rape witch was a bit of a problem as it was the farm boundery, the pup was telling us the trail went out across the field, put the bins up and sure enough there was a deer layed up on the far hedge about 150 yards out sitting up but not looking to happy, phoned the keeper to ask if i could follow it up, he said yes, did not wont to take the dog out to it in case it got up and ran again and as the pup is not capable of bringing it down yet i took the shot from the wood, the shot was good and the doe was distpatched.
the pup then followed the trail out to the deer and she got her reward.
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