For clarity, this write up is late because I have been busy with work and the fallow pricket was shot mid April.
Well, I made my way down to near Ludlow again to have a venture out with Conh off here, and I would suspect it will come as no big surprise to you all that I spent a great deal of time sat on M6 for no good reason. Anyway enough of that, I was like a child on Christmas Eve once again with the prospect of getting my third deer in the bag.
Weather conditions weren't looking to favourable on the way down to ludlow, however when I arrived the weather appeared to be slightly more kind than what I had previously experienced. I had grand visions of some lovely stalking into a nice cull animal.
I arrived at the meeting point that was arranged prior. As some of you may remember I carried a bit of a curse with me the previous times I had been out with Conor and not for the lack of effort shown trying to get me into deer. Needless to say such curse had continued into the afternoons outing. No deer what so ever, nada, nil, zero absolutely not a single deer showed. There were signs, but no deer. Frustrating to say the least, however we stalked, stalked, and stalked and stalked some more... Conor wanted me to take a cull roe buck that had been causing some trouble in a clear fell that had just been replanted. As you guessed, he was no where to be seen. We then spied a roe doe, again her boyfriend was also no where to be seen. We did however spy what appeared to be some nice cull fallow in the distance, but you guessed right, they were over the boundary.
At this point we decided to head back to the clear fell to see if the evasion buck had decided to show himself, needless to say he had not, we did spot two muntjac and Conor asked if I would like to take these, I was more than happy to, however I couldn't get a definite shot at them so decided to leave them and not risk injuring them. We spied one last field and yes you guessed it, FALLOW PRICKET about 50/100 yards down from the woodland edge with a perfect backstop behind him. I was in the money. He felt some lovely 6.5CM into his engine room, and gave up not 10 seconds later. Conor congratulated me on a perfect shot and on the gralloch there certainly was not much left of the lungs and heart.
Well having only seen a muntjac and roe deer in the flesh previously, I did not have any really concept of how big they are. Im just thankful he wasn't a big buck and a perfect cull animal to take,
Now, I realised the error of my ways in not shooting the muntjac earlier, Conor kindly dragged the pricket down for me and then handed me the legs and told me, it is only right you drag the beast.... Then hanging it up in the shed once I got home as it was a late evening.
Fast forward 24hrs later I began skinning it, much to my dismay it was incredibly difficult however he was on the table and the work really did start! Much more challenging than the muntjac just due to its size and only being the third deer I have butchered, it was all the same an enjoyable experience, one I hope to enjoy next month with Conor after a nice roebuck.
Once again, I cannot thank Conor enough and if there are any novice stalkers out there reading this, I would give Conor some serious consideration, the chap can not do enough for you!
All in all he weighed 29.6kg!
Well, I made my way down to near Ludlow again to have a venture out with Conh off here, and I would suspect it will come as no big surprise to you all that I spent a great deal of time sat on M6 for no good reason. Anyway enough of that, I was like a child on Christmas Eve once again with the prospect of getting my third deer in the bag.
Weather conditions weren't looking to favourable on the way down to ludlow, however when I arrived the weather appeared to be slightly more kind than what I had previously experienced. I had grand visions of some lovely stalking into a nice cull animal.
I arrived at the meeting point that was arranged prior. As some of you may remember I carried a bit of a curse with me the previous times I had been out with Conor and not for the lack of effort shown trying to get me into deer. Needless to say such curse had continued into the afternoons outing. No deer what so ever, nada, nil, zero absolutely not a single deer showed. There were signs, but no deer. Frustrating to say the least, however we stalked, stalked, and stalked and stalked some more... Conor wanted me to take a cull roe buck that had been causing some trouble in a clear fell that had just been replanted. As you guessed, he was no where to be seen. We then spied a roe doe, again her boyfriend was also no where to be seen. We did however spy what appeared to be some nice cull fallow in the distance, but you guessed right, they were over the boundary.
At this point we decided to head back to the clear fell to see if the evasion buck had decided to show himself, needless to say he had not, we did spot two muntjac and Conor asked if I would like to take these, I was more than happy to, however I couldn't get a definite shot at them so decided to leave them and not risk injuring them. We spied one last field and yes you guessed it, FALLOW PRICKET about 50/100 yards down from the woodland edge with a perfect backstop behind him. I was in the money. He felt some lovely 6.5CM into his engine room, and gave up not 10 seconds later. Conor congratulated me on a perfect shot and on the gralloch there certainly was not much left of the lungs and heart.
Well having only seen a muntjac and roe deer in the flesh previously, I did not have any really concept of how big they are. Im just thankful he wasn't a big buck and a perfect cull animal to take,
Now, I realised the error of my ways in not shooting the muntjac earlier, Conor kindly dragged the pricket down for me and then handed me the legs and told me, it is only right you drag the beast.... Then hanging it up in the shed once I got home as it was a late evening.
Fast forward 24hrs later I began skinning it, much to my dismay it was incredibly difficult however he was on the table and the work really did start! Much more challenging than the muntjac just due to its size and only being the third deer I have butchered, it was all the same an enjoyable experience, one I hope to enjoy next month with Conor after a nice roebuck.
Once again, I cannot thank Conor enough and if there are any novice stalkers out there reading this, I would give Conor some serious consideration, the chap can not do enough for you!
All in all he weighed 29.6kg!
top job butchering skills it all looks brilliantly done
