Midday stalking
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RescueMe0007
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I'm shooting Sika and Fallow, in Southwest Kerry and Northeast Cork. I have on occasion seen both species out of cover in the middle of the afternoon, but not frequently. I believe it depends on the weather and the amount of pressure they're under. I have not found daylight to be particularly productive, but after very wet (frequent here) or cold weather I have observed the animals out where they're undisturbed enjoying the sun on their backs.
It is amazing how many of my syndicate shoot their Sika walking back to the car having given up
My preference during the Roe Doe season is to be out first light for a few hours because i can.
If for whatever reason i cant do that then i might go for a sit say from 11:00 to mid afternoon.
As we all know, deer feed and then go and lie down for a good while until its time to feed again.
This winter i have had successes with both methods.
However a number of times being out at winter first light no have been seen and its perhaps a couple of hours later that deer are out feeding.
I'm sure the moon phase has a good part to play in their behaviour and perhaps there is some degree of synchronisation with this (?) and particularly with a cloudless sky and a full moon (?)
Not sure where i heard it from but talk of deer actively feeding on roughly a 3 hour cycle ( i stand to be corrected).
So if all has gone quiet, come back in a few hours time..
If for whatever reason i cant do that then i might go for a sit say from 11:00 to mid afternoon.
As we all know, deer feed and then go and lie down for a good while until its time to feed again.
This winter i have had successes with both methods.
However a number of times being out at winter first light no have been seen and its perhaps a couple of hours later that deer are out feeding.
I'm sure the moon phase has a good part to play in their behaviour and perhaps there is some degree of synchronisation with this (?) and particularly with a cloudless sky and a full moon (?)
Not sure where i heard it from but talk of deer actively feeding on roughly a 3 hour cycle ( i stand to be corrected).
So if all has gone quiet, come back in a few hours time..
and also, would you really rather be at home watching Daytime TV..
Midday is when you are guaranteed to bump fallow as you return to your vehicle for either brunch or to head home!
Will never forget sitting in the rumble truck eating a pie as a bunch of Sevenoaks donkeys all but hit each side of the vehicle as they approacged from behind and crossed the estate driveway.
On another occasion I spotted a group of 4 fallow lying down on a bank no more than 30-yards from the truck.
K
Will never forget sitting in the rumble truck eating a pie as a bunch of Sevenoaks donkeys all but hit each side of the vehicle as they approacged from behind and crossed the estate driveway.
On another occasion I spotted a group of 4 fallow lying down on a bank no more than 30-yards from the truck.
K
HonestJohn
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They generally wait until the ground is quiet. Find the quiet period, you’ll find the deer
Its because its a creedmoor!!
The time seems very slow though - just ran my 139 gr scenar load at 1250 yards, there in 2.04 seconds ad arrives with 432 ft-lb - but i don't run the creedmoor for deer, i have far more suitable calibres
. The 300 PRC running a 225 gr at the same velocity arrives far quicker at 1.79 seconds with 1209 ft-lb . . . .
We have been walking back to the vehicle when we have been over taken by the fallow who were passed the car long before we were?
BC.
BC.
I shoot (mostly muntjac) for a chap and on the rare occasion we don't see anything I have explained to him this
"We are here for around 2 hours that leaves 22 more left in the day for them to come out!"
John Gryphon
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Yes flbs at the start and the end is of great importance.
Dad would say "if you are going to shoot a hare then do it on the way back as it is not so far to carry lol"Absolutely
I've spotted this chap several times within a few hundred yards of home this season. I've been out at ridiculous o'clock looking for him and I've stalked him twice, and been bumped both times at just before/about shootable light. Yesterday he's out with a group of 10 on next door as I go to get a mare in at about 5pm, and today he's on one of my fields at 3pm, 20m from the road as I head to the supermarket (unarmed)...he is definitely taking the P$$$! Googling "truckgun" now....
CookM
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I had one the same.
