After spending the last 7-8 months with a target club, the time for the does finally came back round and so I duly booked myself out with a chap down in Kelso.
Got numbers 1 and 2 in the book last night and this morning. Sadly no photos from last night, as we knocked her just afore last light, and by the time we managed to find her, we were fighting what little light remained.
Morning outing was short and sweet, first tried to stalk into a small group of 4 or 5, but someone (not me...
) tripped over a trunk and spooked them 
Back to the car to skip a few fields back to see if we could intercept them again. Stalking down to where we thought they'd hold up, 2 does were munching about 10-20 yd into the field from the edge. Carefully moved forward to them, having to keep ducked down as we got towards the brow in the field. Onto the sticks and shot to the boiler house. Whilst the 2nd of the two I took this weekend, I don't know why, but this one felt more special. The first was taken whilst we were mincing down a track, so possibly the joy of the slow stalk down into her? Was offered to take a shot on the second doe in the pair when she held up, but declined as I could feel the adrenaline coursing, same when asked if I'd want to continuing the stalking (we ended up heading back for breakfast just half an hour or so after we'd gotten onto the grounds).
Hopefully will be back out soon, but with my own rifle (FAC should be in the post any day now
)
Would like to thank everyone here who's been helping me along this time with the rookie questions, and especially to one member in particular for all his help and support!
Got numbers 1 and 2 in the book last night and this morning. Sadly no photos from last night, as we knocked her just afore last light, and by the time we managed to find her, we were fighting what little light remained.
Morning outing was short and sweet, first tried to stalk into a small group of 4 or 5, but someone (not me...
) tripped over a trunk and spooked them Back to the car to skip a few fields back to see if we could intercept them again. Stalking down to where we thought they'd hold up, 2 does were munching about 10-20 yd into the field from the edge. Carefully moved forward to them, having to keep ducked down as we got towards the brow in the field. Onto the sticks and shot to the boiler house. Whilst the 2nd of the two I took this weekend, I don't know why, but this one felt more special. The first was taken whilst we were mincing down a track, so possibly the joy of the slow stalk down into her? Was offered to take a shot on the second doe in the pair when she held up, but declined as I could feel the adrenaline coursing, same when asked if I'd want to continuing the stalking (we ended up heading back for breakfast just half an hour or so after we'd gotten onto the grounds).
Hopefully will be back out soon, but with my own rifle (FAC should be in the post any day now
)Would like to thank everyone here who's been helping me along this time with the rookie questions, and especially to one member in particular for all his help and support!
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