Life has been busy and I've not been out anywhere near the amount I wanted to do when the Green light goes for a stalk I jump at the chance. I don't often stalk in the evenings but it made sense to today and remembering what happend last time I made sure to get to the farm earlier so as to be able to place myself between where the deer tend to go and where they come from.
Got on a found 2 roe (doe and unconfirmed) skylined so no go, carried on and a nice little buck was feeding along the hedge away from me (got to about 50y) then he went through which was over the boundry I waited so as not to spoke him or anything else that may be there and then carried on.
Also over the boundry the buck had joined a little unit of 3 other bucks and a doe there were clear size differences so at a quick guess there was last years kid, the years before and the old boy as well as the big mumma.
I carried on and saw a white butt sticking out of the crop before it dropped down. I waited then worked the hedge row until I was roughly inline with it then let a squeak off and waited
It stood and it was on a doe, completely oblivious to us and still eating away. The angle was bad so when the head turned I worked my way in closer until I thought I might be pushing my luck. Shot the doe and on the report another roe jumped up. Couldn't see it at all from where I was and at first thought it was the same one until I noticed the patch of fur that was curled up on the doe wasn't on this one and then little tiny antlers. It did a circle and then just stood there watching for the doe, long enough for me to Google can you take a dependent buck. The shot was on so that was deer number 2, had he had headed off I wouldn't have 2nd guess that he was dependent but he look deeply unsure as to what he was supposed to do (slight anthropmophising) but his face looked very young
What I hadn't thought about was the fact I was in the furthers corner of the farm and the truck was in the opposite and with the ground so soft i wasn't going to drive so a long walk back with dog, rucksack, decathalon deer bag, rifle and sticks. No gym needed!
Got on a found 2 roe (doe and unconfirmed) skylined so no go, carried on and a nice little buck was feeding along the hedge away from me (got to about 50y) then he went through which was over the boundry I waited so as not to spoke him or anything else that may be there and then carried on.
Also over the boundry the buck had joined a little unit of 3 other bucks and a doe there were clear size differences so at a quick guess there was last years kid, the years before and the old boy as well as the big mumma.
I carried on and saw a white butt sticking out of the crop before it dropped down. I waited then worked the hedge row until I was roughly inline with it then let a squeak off and waited
It stood and it was on a doe, completely oblivious to us and still eating away. The angle was bad so when the head turned I worked my way in closer until I thought I might be pushing my luck. Shot the doe and on the report another roe jumped up. Couldn't see it at all from where I was and at first thought it was the same one until I noticed the patch of fur that was curled up on the doe wasn't on this one and then little tiny antlers. It did a circle and then just stood there watching for the doe, long enough for me to Google can you take a dependent buck. The shot was on so that was deer number 2, had he had headed off I wouldn't have 2nd guess that he was dependent but he look deeply unsure as to what he was supposed to do (slight anthropmophising) but his face looked very young
What I hadn't thought about was the fact I was in the furthers corner of the farm and the truck was in the opposite and with the ground so soft i wasn't going to drive so a long walk back with dog, rucksack, decathalon deer bag, rifle and sticks. No gym needed!
