After a finish to the shooting season and a great trip to Campbeltown stalking my mate and I decided to get cracking on our own ground again, plans drawn up and promptly almost forgotten again after a long week travelling up and down the country for work, but never the less I arrived at the ground, the berry farm at 5.30, kit on and ready to go, after getting going it didn’t look like much was afoot as a lot of the plants had been pulled up and burnt ready for fresh planting this year, we persevered but not a glimpse.
We made plans to look at another piece of ground in the afternoon which would allow us to sit out over some rides I had cut out the previous year and since not shot.
Hopes were high soon after stalking into position as there were a hell of a lot of slots and a fair bit of rustling in the brambles but nothing showed for an hour or two.
Just as I started to look at my watch and wonder what was for tea at home my mate let if a shot and was rewarded with the first Munty of the year, the 165Gr 308s doing the business and putting her down with surprisingly little damage.
As he took the carcass back to the trucks I went to check a ride which got a lot of traffic but usually way past shooting light but as I poked my head around the corner there were two heat signatures sat at about 120Yards, by the time I’d set up on the sticks the first one was in the brambles but the doe was happily feeding, along the ride, needless to say she took a round through both shoulders and dropped to the shot.
Now, I was keen to get out today as I’d been doing a bit of load development for a new rifle I had picked up and was interested to see how it would get on, accuracy was all sorted on paper but terminal effectiveness was yet to be seen and I was happy to see that for most shots I’d be taking the 220Gr sierra round noses out of my 30-06 would be doing just fine. I wouldn’t usually consider such a massive chunk of lead as Shropshire/Hereford isn’t really known for the size of its Cervids but at £25 a box of 100 I couldn’t help pick up a couple of boxes.
Great day had by both and hopefully a good start to a great year of deerstalking!
We made plans to look at another piece of ground in the afternoon which would allow us to sit out over some rides I had cut out the previous year and since not shot.
Hopes were high soon after stalking into position as there were a hell of a lot of slots and a fair bit of rustling in the brambles but nothing showed for an hour or two.
Just as I started to look at my watch and wonder what was for tea at home my mate let if a shot and was rewarded with the first Munty of the year, the 165Gr 308s doing the business and putting her down with surprisingly little damage.
As he took the carcass back to the trucks I went to check a ride which got a lot of traffic but usually way past shooting light but as I poked my head around the corner there were two heat signatures sat at about 120Yards, by the time I’d set up on the sticks the first one was in the brambles but the doe was happily feeding, along the ride, needless to say she took a round through both shoulders and dropped to the shot.
Now, I was keen to get out today as I’d been doing a bit of load development for a new rifle I had picked up and was interested to see how it would get on, accuracy was all sorted on paper but terminal effectiveness was yet to be seen and I was happy to see that for most shots I’d be taking the 220Gr sierra round noses out of my 30-06 would be doing just fine. I wouldn’t usually consider such a massive chunk of lead as Shropshire/Hereford isn’t really known for the size of its Cervids but at £25 a box of 100 I couldn’t help pick up a couple of boxes.
Great day had by both and hopefully a good start to a great year of deerstalking!
well done
Good job you dont have a .338.
