same as ...I ll put you in a spot where your guaranteed to see deer....
Took a mate out on the fallow early one morning a few years back as a thank you for a favour he’d done me. It was an early start (read proper dark o’clock) so we could get up on good point on the downs to catch the marauding mobs as they headed back into the sanctuary of a nature reserve to sleep off the nights feasting. And he’d driven down from London that morning.
Anyway, I guide him in to the hotspot I’ve reserved for him on the top of a bowl in the downs. It’s dark but I’d already sent him a photo of the place in daylight & briefed him where I’d be & where he could shoot so once the light came up he was going to be in the pound seat for sure.
Left him to it & got myself into a spot a bit further round the bowl to his left so we had interlocking arcs of fire - the drill was he’d shoot first & I’d take anything that then presented me with a shot.
As the light came up the deer started to move back to the wood just as expected. The first small group ambled along through his ‘killing zone’ completely undisturbed. I assumed he was being cautious as a guest & hadn’t taken a shot as they were moving & he didn’t want to cock up.
Several other groups went through undisturbed & I was starting to get a bit hacked off at the lack of action. When the next group went through I decided I’d show him it was OK to shoot & whacked one, then another. There were deer stood in the group long enough for him to shoot but still no shot.
At that point it was all over bar the clearing up so I got my kit & headed round to meet him. As I walked in behind him he was stretched out prone behind his rifle on a shooting mat… fast asleep
ffs
Safe to say he jumped out of his skin when I prodded him with my sticks.
Asked if he’d seen anything he replied ‘no’ - good job I did then was my reply as I pointed at the two dead fallow right out in front of him
