Sunday was the third of our driven hunts. - 6c with a coating of snow on the ground but luckily very little wind. This year there has been a lack of boar . The start of the season was very wet with many of the boar lying up places under water plus it has been a massive acorn year. Normally on a boar day the number shot can run into double figures but this year over the last 3 shoots only about six boar in total have been shot. So yesterday wearing my thick padded trousers, battery powered waist coat and new battery powered gloves I was out hunting again. One of the guns shot a boar in the morning then after lunch it was off to sit for the second drive.
After walked to the stand and had just got seated,gun loaded and snow brushed off the hand rail when I see a boar trotting down the through the trees it heard me raising the rifle and stopped as they do behind a tree in front of me hiding it's vitals. It then trotted of to my left and I dropped it with a shot from the 8x57jrs. So that was two boar shot for the day.
I must say the heated gloves and waistcoat worked really well and apart from the toes getting a little cold the rest of me stayed nice and warm.
After walked to the stand and had just got seated,gun loaded and snow brushed off the hand rail when I see a boar trotting down the through the trees it heard me raising the rifle and stopped as they do behind a tree in front of me hiding it's vitals. It then trotted of to my left and I dropped it with a shot from the 8x57jrs. So that was two boar shot for the day.
I must say the heated gloves and waistcoat worked really well and apart from the toes getting a little cold the rest of me stayed nice and warm.
