Most interesting extraction?
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Please expand on this Tim...the top of a tree?A recent post in another thread, about wounded deer going to ground down rabbit burrows () got me thinking about this.
What's the most interesting / difficult / dangerous place you've had to extract a dead deer from?
Mine was the top of a tree
Nothing vaguely interesting from me other then dragging a fallow doe over a drainage ditch on a rotten bit of wood and hoping it wouldnt break
The Carlsberg deer cart..Please expand on this Tim...the top of a tree?
Nothing vaguely interesting from me other then dragging a fallow doe over a drainage ditch on a rotten bit of wood and hoping it wouldnt break
last year in the snow, i dragged 3 deer individually fro hillside to the road which was probably 1/2 a mile, so with back and forth i'd done 3 mile, i was down to my t shirt with steam coming off me. thats about as interesting as it got for me. luckily the guide had a tracked honda quad for going to for end to retrieve
A fair number of the extractions of reds from my Arran stalking weeks have been emotional to say the least, but thanks to Chris & Bob, extraction from the most difficult and improbable places always seemed achievable. This 23st plus stag sticks in the memory as it chose to expire in a stream under 2 fallen trees. Chris Brooks got it out with our assistance and his truck, my winch and his TRX500 - certainly lives long in the memory! Since buying my Capstan winch, challenging recoveries have got MUCH easier thank God!
Lets be honest here mate...Chris B is a man mountain so a red deer for him is like a muntjac for me
Arran again, this time Bob "in the chair". The red hind I shot chose to roll down a hill and hide itself in a stream; the calf was easier to find but had to be dragged over said stream 
My dog found the hind but the recovery out of the stream and up the bank for both was epic. Thankfully, Bob and his quad triumphed again 
My dog found the hind but the recovery out of the stream and up the bank for both was epic. Thankfully, Bob and his quad triumphed again HonestJohn
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Screw that, I’d have chopped him up right there and put in two big rucksack fulls
dropping 5 falllow a quarter mile away from where i could get my truck when on my own 
( 2 of which were headshot before they could get down a burrow )
( 2 of which were headshot before they could get down a burrow )I bet on shooting no 5 you realised the fun was about to startdropping 5 falllow a quarter mile away from where i could get my truck when on my own
I had to drag 4 fallow about 250 yards across a field and through a hedge and that was more then enough for me
My big silver medal Royal stag ran and expired impaled in the ditch banking.
I was stalking alone and somehow got him out of the ditch but he was just too big to drag out so he got butchered in the woods and it still took two runs with the sled to cart the meat and head out the 500 yards to the track.
I was stalking alone and somehow got him out of the ditch but he was just too big to drag out so he got butchered in the woods and it still took two runs with the sled to cart the meat and head out the 500 yards to the track.
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Thats a monster, fair play to you
i actually reloaded the rifle as a group of 8 broke cover as i was bleeding the last two does ... then though hang on no moreI bet on shooting no 5 you realised the fun was about to start
I had to drag 4 fallow about 250 yards across a field and through a hedge and that was more then enough for me
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So, I was out early morning and managed to get within about 120 yds of a buck. The ground (or at least the top of it!) is on the cliffs near where I live. Took the shot, the buck ran down towards a slight drop in the ground and then never reappeared. Great I thought, I must have hit it where I aimed, right in the chest.
This feeling then began to sink away every time I walked back and forth over where I thought it could have gone. Bearing in mind the shot was over grass fields with a lot of sea in behind it! Surely it hadn’t doubled back round an unseen part of the cliffs? Anyway, I spent over half an hour on a very small, only grassy area where it should have been before I thought that I may have missed it. I started to walk back the way I had come from and just before heading back, I thought, surely it’s not at the bottom of the cliffs? Took a bit of scanning with my binoculars but there it was, over 100 ft down at the bottom of the rocks with the sea lapping up beside it.
I was delighted that I had found it, but the next thing was getting it out! Luckily there is a grassy strip that comes down to the sea although it is bloody steep! Needed all hands and feet to crawl my way back up but it is something that I will never forget!
This feeling then began to sink away every time I walked back and forth over where I thought it could have gone. Bearing in mind the shot was over grass fields with a lot of sea in behind it! Surely it hadn’t doubled back round an unseen part of the cliffs? Anyway, I spent over half an hour on a very small, only grassy area where it should have been before I thought that I may have missed it. I started to walk back the way I had come from and just before heading back, I thought, surely it’s not at the bottom of the cliffs? Took a bit of scanning with my binoculars but there it was, over 100 ft down at the bottom of the rocks with the sea lapping up beside it.
I was delighted that I had found it, but the next thing was getting it out! Luckily there is a grassy strip that comes down to the sea although it is bloody steep! Needed all hands and feet to crawl my way back up but it is something that I will never forget!
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Two roe bucks. From there final resting place within 5 metres of each other.
A doe was peeping away in the middle of clearfell, out pops mr buck. A couple of courting niceties then he’s up doing his job. I let him finish then shot him. He dropped within a couple of metres of the doe who gave his carcass barely a glance before peeping away again. Out pops mr buck #2. He steps over buck #1 and after a couple of courting niceties he’s up doing his job. Let him finish then shot him, dropping literally within 5 metres of buck #1. Doe starts peeping away and another buck crashes out the bracken. I’m looking at two decent bucks, my roe sack, the clearfell and the distance to the car.
Bugger this - so I show myself and it takes a fair bit of hollering to get the does mind off the game and get her and lover boy #3 to bugger off.
A doe was peeping away in the middle of clearfell, out pops mr buck. A couple of courting niceties then he’s up doing his job. I let him finish then shot him. He dropped within a couple of metres of the doe who gave his carcass barely a glance before peeping away again. Out pops mr buck #2. He steps over buck #1 and after a couple of courting niceties he’s up doing his job. Let him finish then shot him, dropping literally within 5 metres of buck #1. Doe starts peeping away and another buck crashes out the bracken. I’m looking at two decent bucks, my roe sack, the clearfell and the distance to the car.
Bugger this - so I show myself and it takes a fair bit of hollering to get the does mind off the game and get her and lover boy #3 to bugger off.
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