TringSaint
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That’s how I found the one yesterday morning - just didn’t go far enough out. Distance is hard to gauge in kale!!
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Norfolk Deer Search
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Keep going along that bearing until you trip over it!
TringSaint
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I was about 10’ off the deer on my bearing when I finally got to the correct distance. Even then I only just saw one foot sticking in the air!
Range find them before shot. If off sticks line up a bearing on feature on the horizon with scope. Then walk towards it without taking your eyes off it. You can pace it to get rough distance. Stop range find to your shooting position and fine tune distance. With luck you will.be on top of it.
It works with roe in wheat and countless pigeons when decoying.
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It works with roe in wheat and countless pigeons when decoying.
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I shot a muntjac from a high seat in long grass, perhaps 60 yds away. Took a bearing against a tree behind it. Looked for it 40 min later around dusk with my mentor. We spent 20 min searching back and forth for it and couldn’t find a trace. There was still some light initially and we both had thermals too. Found myself doubting my sanity as I was certain it dropped on the spot to my 308. Mentor came back the next day with his dog - which found the shot site and a pile of intestines dragged out, but no carcass! Presumably badgers had done their work on it in the night. My mentor confirmed the kill spot was pretty much where we had been looking the previous evening. Relieved at least that I’d only lost a deer and not my marbles…
TringSaint
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That would mean I need to buy a range finder!
Norfolk Deer Search
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Either that or watch the field find where the deer are coming onto the field and intercept on entry or exit makes life a lot easier shooting them on the flat instead of in the rough
TringSaint
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Yup, hitting them in the tracks would make life easier.
Still, the sheep will be knobbling it soon.
Brittany boy
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Still think a smog would be the answer
shakey jake
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wouldnt smog stop you seeing the deer altogether?
Brittany boy
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well spotted , yes smog would but wouldn’t affect the dog 
The cost of a rangefinder is well worth it; it lasts for years, and as Cyres says, if you know the distance the shot was taken, leave your sticks or any marker, and walk out that distance, and you will find it. I've used this for foxes for years. Sadly, it doesn't work for runners!.
Have a HIKMICRO lynx, had one of these and I know which one I prefer, unfortunately at he age of 14 life caught up with him. and me.I failed to read the post entirely correctly, my bad
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Norfolk Deer Search
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No, it’s really not better off with a good Labrador!
That speaking from 15 years experience of the BGS
A stand alone swivel high seat set up in the kale or neeps.
BC.
BC.
Craigsaun
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Try putting a few electric fence posts about the area a few days before you plan on shooting the field, that will give you something to gage off
You do you.
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