With the Roe Rut looming, and most of my recce done/know what i want to keep and take on the majority of my ground… i like every year to concentrate around my boundaries pre rut, just to see if theres anything thats started to venture and i may not get chance to see it again/have missed through the spring ! 
Possibly the wettest evening ive spent out in July, but clothes are dry and skins waterproof…
I got settled under a tree over watching a big grass banking which has a row of trees along it and it forms my boundary with a dry stone wall.
Spotted a buck with some age to him, around 300 yards off through the thermal, was spying on him for a while through the binos and despite him not obviously being with a Doe, he was very much stomping around like he had something to prove ! But he did not want to drop down towards where i was sat up…
The rut hasnt started for me yet…. But thought id give a little go on the call and guage his reaction….
HEAD UP, stopped dead in his tracks… and began to slowly trot down the hill towards the tree line where i lost sight of him for a good half hour…
Around 2130hrs a Doe appeared in the next field over to me, around 120 yards away and she was very interested to what was behind her/following her out of the cover….
She stayed alone for longer than expected and then at around 2200hrs…. The Doe went out of sight but here we go….. its the buck !!!!!
He comes slowly and very gingerly walking out into the centre of the field, the rains still drizzling, my scope is clouded up with a mix of steam and rain drops…. But my Schmidt glass still giving me plenty of light to see him clearly through my scope….
Got myself steady in the sitting position, using an old fallen gate post as a rock steady rest…. Safety off and psssshhhttttt THWACK….
LEAPS in the air, great reaction to a heart shot, runs around in a small 50 yard cirlce and drops in the centre of it….
Just enough light to get to him safely without a torch, and was a perfect heart shot, nice ending to a very wet evening and even BETTER…. one extra for the larder that i may not have even seen in the next couple of weeks !
Roll on the Rut !
Possibly the wettest evening ive spent out in July, but clothes are dry and skins waterproof…
I got settled under a tree over watching a big grass banking which has a row of trees along it and it forms my boundary with a dry stone wall.
Spotted a buck with some age to him, around 300 yards off through the thermal, was spying on him for a while through the binos and despite him not obviously being with a Doe, he was very much stomping around like he had something to prove ! But he did not want to drop down towards where i was sat up…
The rut hasnt started for me yet…. But thought id give a little go on the call and guage his reaction….
HEAD UP, stopped dead in his tracks… and began to slowly trot down the hill towards the tree line where i lost sight of him for a good half hour…
Around 2130hrs a Doe appeared in the next field over to me, around 120 yards away and she was very interested to what was behind her/following her out of the cover….
She stayed alone for longer than expected and then at around 2200hrs…. The Doe went out of sight but here we go….. its the buck !!!!!
He comes slowly and very gingerly walking out into the centre of the field, the rains still drizzling, my scope is clouded up with a mix of steam and rain drops…. But my Schmidt glass still giving me plenty of light to see him clearly through my scope….
Got myself steady in the sitting position, using an old fallen gate post as a rock steady rest…. Safety off and psssshhhttttt THWACK….
LEAPS in the air, great reaction to a heart shot, runs around in a small 50 yard cirlce and drops in the centre of it….
Just enough light to get to him safely without a torch, and was a perfect heart shot, nice ending to a very wet evening and even BETTER…. one extra for the larder that i may not have even seen in the next couple of weeks !
Roll on the Rut !
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. thanks for sharing!
Agreed that its nice to see people posting write ups.
