You never have a Mark 4 Spearfish Torpedo to hand when you need it...

[Moray Outfitting]

Pictures from an outing last week.

Caveats - no intention of shooting ( I know - but better cleared up at the start ), just over our march, pictures were taken at distance with zoom so apologies for quality.

Stalking quietly along, we ended up watching a stag - still apparently holding hinds, calmly walk by the Loch ( over our boundary, so not in pursuit ). For reasons best known to himself - it was a chilly day and I imagine the Loch was frigid - he chivvies the hinds into the Loch and they walk through it for several hundred yards - right beside a perfectly good ( and dry ) bank.

I have some video - bit shaky - of a hind 'kneeing' its calf to hurry it up out of the water as they came out; so suspect the deer were fully aware of how cold the water was.

Sat with client and just watched - along with a 'pythonesk' discussion as to whether the Spearfish Torpedo would be classed as 'designed to expand in a predictable manner'...

 

[csl]

Interesting photos! Do you think he was trying to encourage them to cross to your side?

Alex

 

[Hornet 6]

'designed to expand in a predictable manner'...

Nope, it's varmint round designed to disintegrate not expand predictably.

Neil.

 

[smullery]

Perfectly good and dry bank.......

Obviously not perfect enough

Stan

 

[tozzybum]

surely a javelin or sidewinder as theyre designed to expand near to the target .though i suspect the meat damage would border on mincemeat

 

[Moray Outfitting]

TB - you are just being silly now... whilst we've all had a Spearfish ( or for older members the Mk8 Tigerfish ) to hand from time to time; who on earth would be carrying a Sidewinder - its just plain wrong. Keep it real please.

 

[JockStalk]

How far can you swim under water Andy?

 

[Moray Outfitting]

Irrelevant question - whenever I'm in water stealth is impossible - the combined Norwegian and Japanese 'scientific' whaling fleet, Greenpeace and attendant press flotillas always give the game away...

 

[JockStalk]

Och I'd have thought you'd have had that deer like a pike taking a duckling!

 

[Moray Outfitting]

Insert Martin Sheen's face coming out of the water per Apocalypse Now Emoticon....

 

[csl]

So I make the only serious reply and I get blanked...

Have I been sent to Coventry because of the Dundee cake?

 

[Moray Outfitting]

Never, ever take a tractor enthusiast seriously....

But because it never does to offend those in power ( whether it be tangible authority or potential control of Dundee cake supplies ) - you make an very valid point, but the pictures dont show that the deer continued a direction away from us.

My apologies for the implied 'blank' - though speak to Dougster, he'd happily swap being ignored for some of my more scathing 'attention'...

However, you will have twigged my fawning compliments to Mrs Jayb ensuring no repeat of the @dundee cake situation' come Kelso 2015.

 

[Dorsettaff]

Boys.....
You are all missing the point....you need a variation first for a 533mm before you even start thinking of projectiles.

You'd probably get the variation but only be allowed to use it overseas!

I remember sitting quietly fishing on the Hants Avon one Summer when there was an almighty crash & splash as a young roe buck was chased into the river by a bigger buck. The youngster nonchalantly swam across to the other side, scrambled out and sauntered off.

Of course there is the classic story of how the Poole Basin became populated by sika deer swimming from Brownsea Island

 

[cambsman]

Certainly designed to expand in a predictable manner. That's how it works! Getting it on ticket? Tricky. Trying to think of good reason. Not many Ruskie subs or ships in my neck of the woods. Mmmmmmm. Still a few Norfolk land sharks about but that only justifies the sidewinder part of the debate, though I don't think they are on the general licence so also a non starter. hey ho. Makes one heck of a bang tho. Lol.

 

[csl]

Andy I'd pay good money to see the Moray Ness monster attempting to stalk a stag by 'swimming' across a loch

Never, ever take a tractor enthusiast seriously....

Spot the SD sticker

 

[pip]

I would suggest that 400kg of torpex at 60 odd knots was a bit of overkill!

 

[Moray Outfitting]

Pip - my maths isnt up to it - can you convert Knots to FPS just so I'm OK on the velocity front