A Fruitful Morning Zeroing

My father has recently started a job as a keeper on a 450 acre shoot which has muntjac, roe and the occasional fallow. The owners have encouraged us to get on top of the muntjac in particular as they are causing quite a bit of damage to their most valuable commodity, willows.

Due to the fact that I’ve been shooting foxes with Hornady V-max 75gr, I got myself some 100gr Norma Whitetail and went to go and check zero/see the difference between the bullets over at a different shoot that my friend is the keeper on. Fortunately, the difference was negligible and required only the smallest adjustment at 100 yards. I was shooting at a big 10 foot high man made bank as my backstop that surrounds an entire field. Once I finished zeroing, I half jokingly said to my friend “I’m going to have a peek over the bank to see if there’s anything out there”.

As luck would have it, there was a muntjac stood 242 yards away! I had to wait a few minutes for him to turn broadside. I pulled the shot slightly but he dropped on the spot and was dead by the time we got over to him.

Here he is. For this poor chap, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and so ended up being my first deer!

 

[Mike1979]

Nice start to proceedings, well done

 

[VSS]

Nice when it all comes together like that!
Well done!

 

[User00056]

First of many more! Congratulations

 

[shakey jake]

He looks very beaten up, you could have some big old bucks on that land

 

[georgedoubleyou]

He looks very beaten up, you could have some big old bucks on that land

I know for a fact there is. I've been foxing on this estate for a year now and I dont think I've ever gone out at night and not seen at least half a dozen munjac. I look at them through the night vision and I do regularly see some nice ones but weirdly, we've gone out several times in the day for a one and never seen a thing. They're seemlingly entirely nocturnal here!

 

[Mike1979]

I know for a fact there is. I've been foxing on this estate for a year now and I dont think I've ever gone out at night and not seen at least half a dozen munjac. I look at them through the night vision and I do regularly see some nice ones but weirdly, we've gone out several times in the day for a one and never seen a thing. They're seemlingly entirely nocturnal here!

They dont get old by being stupid

 

[25 Sharps]

@georgedoubleyou It took me about a year and a lot of combinations to get the load for my 25-45 reliably above 1700 ft-lb. The night I did, a mate and I were out in my normal ‘range’ which is an old chalk cutting in the side of a hill. Just as we were finishing 2 juvenile roe bucks wandered into the cutting about 100 yards off so the rifle got its first deer the same night!

 

[FilipRugby]

Well done mate! Nice muntjac

 

[MHstalker]

Great start, well done