Last weekend i had arranged to hay a few stalks with Teyhan1, some of his ground is about ten minutes from my house so was convenient and meant i could also spend some time with the family between being out.
We met a 5am which gave me a lie in until around 4.45! With the introductions over we parked my car locally and headed to Teyhan's first piece of ground. When we pulled in we immediately notice a couple of roe out in the first field we drove past , so quietly pulled up an left the car to begin the stalk. As we walked in to the first field we cam across a Roe buck about 50 yards away that had spotted us, he was staring at us, i slowly tried to get in to a shooting position but the buck was off before this could be achieved.
Moving on we came across a few does before noticing two different bucks in a large open field, we moved underneath some barbed wire to get into the corner of the field still maintaining some distance from the bucks (younger and older buck). The bucks sensed something was up and moved to the far opposite corner of the field where we continued to glass them, they didnt seem to alarmed and were moving slowly toward the open gat in that corner of the field. I sat hoping they would come back in our direction but they continued walking until they had gone through the gate and over the boundary....
Oh well... we then decided to leave that piece of ground to have a look at some other local areas , we went to a few locations and saw a few deer on the way but none that provided a shot.
As the morning was coming to and we were on the way back to the car Teyhan decided to call in to that first piece of ground we had visited in case the buck had come back out... There he was grazing out in the same field as earlier with a doe nearby laying down. We crawled into the field through a hedge and under some more barbed wire, with the strong smell of fox **** awakening the senses....
I'm sure the doe had seen us and was looking in our direction but she remained on the ground quietly, i stayed in the prone position waited for the buck to turn broadside and took the shot...The .308 done its job and dropped the buck on the spot. Phew, after waiting some time went over to check the animal and all was good, a very happy man.
That evening we went back out on another piece of ground , we sat and watched a particular area however no deer presented themselves. On foot now and we came across a doe as we were moving through the ground, then decided to sit down under a tree that over looked a nice clearing.
As we were sat waiting a young 4 point buck came charging out of the tree's ..... we sat and watched in case another buck came out behind him but the the sound of a small dog barking soon confirmed what has caused this....
Moving over to the other side of the ground now we headed into a piece of woodland and sat on a slight hill over looking another clearing.... we sat there for a while spending the time looking at the clearing and squashing the ticks that were crawling all over me... Teyhan then spotted a couple of muntjac moving into the clearing , they disappeared back into the tree's and around ten minutes later one of them moved out and begun to graze in the open.....
I got a clear shot and sent a round in the direction of the muntjac buck and it went down.... moments later the doe came out and was looking around the area where the first animal had dropped, i reloaded and took another shot and she went down next to the buck..
The first shot was slightly back (i'm sure some may point out ) but the animal went down on the spot and the carcass was perfectly clean with no damage to the stomach contents.
Thanks very much to Teyhan1 for a great day!
We met a 5am which gave me a lie in until around 4.45! With the introductions over we parked my car locally and headed to Teyhan's first piece of ground. When we pulled in we immediately notice a couple of roe out in the first field we drove past , so quietly pulled up an left the car to begin the stalk. As we walked in to the first field we cam across a Roe buck about 50 yards away that had spotted us, he was staring at us, i slowly tried to get in to a shooting position but the buck was off before this could be achieved.
Moving on we came across a few does before noticing two different bucks in a large open field, we moved underneath some barbed wire to get into the corner of the field still maintaining some distance from the bucks (younger and older buck). The bucks sensed something was up and moved to the far opposite corner of the field where we continued to glass them, they didnt seem to alarmed and were moving slowly toward the open gat in that corner of the field. I sat hoping they would come back in our direction but they continued walking until they had gone through the gate and over the boundary....
Oh well... we then decided to leave that piece of ground to have a look at some other local areas , we went to a few locations and saw a few deer on the way but none that provided a shot.
As the morning was coming to and we were on the way back to the car Teyhan decided to call in to that first piece of ground we had visited in case the buck had come back out... There he was grazing out in the same field as earlier with a doe nearby laying down. We crawled into the field through a hedge and under some more barbed wire, with the strong smell of fox **** awakening the senses....
I'm sure the doe had seen us and was looking in our direction but she remained on the ground quietly, i stayed in the prone position waited for the buck to turn broadside and took the shot...The .308 done its job and dropped the buck on the spot. Phew, after waiting some time went over to check the animal and all was good, a very happy man.
That evening we went back out on another piece of ground , we sat and watched a particular area however no deer presented themselves. On foot now and we came across a doe as we were moving through the ground, then decided to sit down under a tree that over looked a nice clearing.
As we were sat waiting a young 4 point buck came charging out of the tree's ..... we sat and watched in case another buck came out behind him but the the sound of a small dog barking soon confirmed what has caused this....
Moving over to the other side of the ground now we headed into a piece of woodland and sat on a slight hill over looking another clearing.... we sat there for a while spending the time looking at the clearing and squashing the ticks that were crawling all over me... Teyhan then spotted a couple of muntjac moving into the clearing , they disappeared back into the tree's and around ten minutes later one of them moved out and begun to graze in the open.....
I got a clear shot and sent a round in the direction of the muntjac buck and it went down.... moments later the doe came out and was looking around the area where the first animal had dropped, i reloaded and took another shot and she went down next to the buck..
The first shot was slightly back (i'm sure some may point out ) but the animal went down on the spot and the carcass was perfectly clean with no damage to the stomach contents.
Thanks very much to Teyhan1 for a great day!