I had an interesting week going after roe bucks starting out on 1st August in the German Freiburg area on my pals hunting lease. We were going out daily at 5am but with only a half kilometre drive to his various shooting boxes it was no bother, then waiting for first light. “There’s a good buck he says” “shoot”. Boom speaks the hated by most on SD but accurate .270 out to 110 metres bang/flop. “Weidmannsheil” hear I through the earmuffs. We take his teckel over to the deer to give her some training. “Wow, that’s the best head we have taken here in the last 10 years” says my pal so a double Weidmannsheil”. Back to the larder where I, under his veterinarian eyes do the gralloch, all was OK. Every evening I am sent out with his hunting neighbour who will be 85 next week and is reputed to be the best roe caller in the area using just a leaf. What an education watching him search the bushes for selecting the best leaf. He selects an Alder buckthorn (fittingly) he called it Pulverbaum as it was used in the making of black powder in bygone years. We are seated in a doe box, he smiles and takes out a miniature slivovitz bottle half full and drips a few drops onto the back of his hand, ah! He sniffs it then rubs it onto his other hands fingers and massages the leaf with it to wet it then with the leftover juice he rubs it onto his lips and smiles again. Then seriously THE MUSIC STARTED I have never heard such pure tones of the doe & fawns natural sounds from any call that you can buy. The first evening there was a severe thunderstorm so we sat out waiting for the rain to stop till last light and he called one in but it stayed behind some bushes 40 metres from us. On the second evening we slithered up into the same doe box, sat down and 30 seconds later a doe and buck suddenly appeared opposite our spot 120 metres distance onto the meadow the buck chasing her around and around and she playing hard to get, meanwhile I am hurriedly trying to load the rifle whilst trying to also watch the spectacle. The buck mounted the doe, did his business then stood broadside to light his cigarette where I gave him his second orgasm, job done. All in all a very nice week where I gralloched four bucks, two were mine and two were my pals plus I managed to get my .50 cal Traditions muzzleloader re-scoped by a top gun maker mate of his in Freiburg for peanuts we then sighted it in on his lease under the 38 degree sunshine in the afternoons just for fun getting 80 metres 2.5 inch groups which is not bad for the 245 grain copper plated aerotip bullets and 80 grains of Goex fffg.
A stalk in the Black Forest (hum the music)
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