Visit from my Grandson and its that time of the year again.

August the 16th is the start of the roe buck season here in Sweden. I look on the 16th as also the start of the whole winter hunting season as well.
12th August I picked up my 15 year old grandson from Copenhagen Air port for a two week visit. First job was to get him kitted out with some hunting gear and suitable foot wear. The next morning with grandson in his new hunting outfit off up the shoot to feed the pheasants and ducks,its grandson driving my mates Can-am quad. It was hard to prise him of said quad after the first outing. He was keen to help with the feeding and filling up of the drinkers. A couple of afternoons we went up to the gravel pit to shoot the .22 .
The 16th dawned and Toby, Border of SD was down to try and shoot a roe buck.
IMy grandson and I, sat in the newly constructed hunting tower I built a couple of weeks ago and I shot a fox but no roe bucks showed. In the evening I shot a young boar from the Same tower. The total for the first day of the season for 4 guns was, three roe bucks, two boar and a fox.
The next evening Toby and my grandson sat in the same tower and had the luck to see a young wolf walk past the hunting tower. Toby managed to get a video on his phone of the wolf. Perhaps Toby will post the video here on SD.
We skinned the boar and roe deer and they were hung in the cold run , the grandson getting stuck in with this task.
24th August, the day before my grandson returned to England we had our first duck shoot with the grandson responsible for the game cart, really a quad with small trailer.
Our littl syndicate and our guests had a great shoot with a lot of ducks about on the 5 hectare wetland. Seventy seven duck collected at the end of the shoot so all my feeding had not been in vain.
The grandson returned to England a happy lad.

 

[WalkedUp]

Great write up, I’m sure he’ll be back and get his roe buck soon enough. Interesting to see the roe skinned ‘intact’.

 

[Heym SR20]

Those are the sorts of memories we should all have. D as my grandfather was called was a fisherman, sailer and boatbuilder. By profession he was a children’s doctor. I spent many happy days with him pottering along a river, or up to hill loch, or just tinkering on a boat. I have some of his tools in my toolbox and later on I will go down to my own boat and he will be with me, even though he died 40 years ago.

 

[Jagare]

Great write up, I’m sure he’ll be back and get his roe buck soon enough. Interesting to see the roe skinned ‘intact’.

Its a boar he's whittling with the knife. We gut the roe out in the forest but do the boar back at the cold room. The owner of the cold roon likes them skinned before hang in the cold room.

 

[WalkedUp]

It’s a boar he's whittling with the knife. We gut the roe out in the forest but do the boar back at the cold room. The owner of the cold roon likes them skinned before hang in the cold room.I’ve never seen

Ahh, I have never seen a boar skinned before, I wasn't sure because it didn’t look normal but put that down to being skinned before gralloching. The boar looks so much bigger on the hoist than it did in the picture with your grandson! Always interesting to learn.

 

[Border]

A great trip and an exciting experience.
Was a pleasure to meet your grandson.

 

[WalkedUp]

Wow… a great experience

 

[Sionyn81]

A memorable trip for you both I'm sure, was lovely to see the wolf too His first Roe buck will come soon I hope.

 

[VSS]

Ahh, I have never seen a boar skinned before, I wasn't sure because it didn’t look normal but put that down to being skinned before gralloching. The boar looks so much bigger on the hoist than it did in the picture with your grandson! Always interesting to learn.

It's much easier and cleaner to skin before evisceration. That's normal practice with with sheep, cattle etc in an abattoir.
Even rabbits are much easier to deal with if you skin before paunching.
The reason we do it differently with deer is firstly, because they're usually gralloched in the field, so the skin needs to stay on to keep the carcass clean during extraction and transport back to the larder, and secondly, because it's usual practice to hang deer carcasses "in skin" for maturation (because they tend not to have the same protective layer of fat as sheep or cattle that prevents the meat drying out in the chiller).
As an alternative to hanging deer in skin, you can use a muslin carcass sock, so if you are using those, and if you are near enough to your larder to extract deer intact, it would definitely make sense to skin before gralloching.

 

[tonyshooter]

What a wonderful experience for your Grandson.

 

[Loki]

Hi

Jagare - thank you for sharing a wonderful experience.

Border - after ye said 'Keep still' I held me breath! Thank you for sharing a fantatstic clip.

L