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Photos thread -Hunting. MOD NOTE in post #1.
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Myself and Wallysworld stalked a herd of fallow (12 in total)
On 22mag on failing light it was only obvious 1 of them had small antlers.
I had to crawl 50 yards or so on my belt buckle to get a clear shot.
I'd normally go for a head shot; however on this occasion due to low light medium range 250yards i went with the safer boiler house shot.
Hornady 155grain soft nose .308
I owe wallysworld for helping me, it made this evenings work much easier on me when I had a hardy buck to help me drag a pricket across a large farm and over a few ditches (and helped me get him into the fridge
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there are a lot of cut fields around my house right now so i pulled in for a couple of bunny's. next thing i saw was mr fox just outside a grove about 200m away so i strolled away down towards him, putting the light on him every now and then to keep tabs on him.
at about 150m away i sat down not wanting to push my luck, i left a little squeak out to get her attention.
at the same time i flicked on my light and nailed her between the eyes with my 155gr hornady tap.
with the mod on i got the report beck at the same time as the eyes vanished
job done.
pics are gory so be warned
very happy with result
and then i went back up to my jeep for the .22 to get the bunny's i was after in the first place
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underthetumb wrote: »nice one, fine animal, hope you had some help gettin him back to jeep
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I was lucky got him on pasture at the edge of woods there were 5 of them this fella was locking horns with another necked him when they paused,308 dropped him on the spot from about 70 yards using 150gr fusions mushroomed perfect,no exit wound only a short drag thank god weighed about 170kg took four of us0 -
Seen 28 grouse in 3 days out an about 40 miles walked in 4 different spots of mine! Put up 16 in one spot alone yesterday, impossible to get near them when their in packs that large though, good experience for the dogs and good exercise for me none the less! Thats 24 grouse I know of that are safe till next year, have 5 or 6 other spots to try out yet. Was out with an uncle yesterday when we put up the big pack said he hadnt seen packs of grouse up there like that in 15 years!0 -
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Had the evening off today so I went for a stalk, my first time since the third of september and conditions were perfect this evening!
Not far into the grounds where I shoot myself and a friend spotted a deer across a valley, upon further inspection we seen that it was a nice young pricket so we headed in for a closer position, after a short stalk we got to 210 yards of the young deer. I got set for the shot as the deer had became aware of us but while aiming at the deer I noticed a set of antlers popping through the rushed.
A stag jumped up from the drain and both pricket and buck headed away up the hill. At 260 yards the buck turned for one look back at us, just enough time to send a 140 grain SST towards his shoulder!! He fell down a 20ft bank and never got up.
We could not get over the size of this fallow, bigger than any others seen or shot in the area, and also had a large amount of fat on him!
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A good sized "buck" is a big animal, not to be sneezed at.
If the conditions allow they can grow quite big. Dismissing Fallow out of hand would be
My biggest "bucks" antlers were not as palmated as this however it was very heavy.
As a lot of the deer in my area eat the best of barley they are in great condition and thrive.
Deer on the "mountain" (midlands are only big hills) the deer have not as much food so they are generally thinner that the "plains" deer (for lack of a better term to describe deer which live on the flat ground which the midlands is full of.0 -
I was going through a few old school pics from my younger Stalking days, Not my first deer, but my first deer where I did it all by myself. Except the jeep was a mates as I only had a motorbike in those days
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My personal best, .223 55rain moly, 457yards bunny.
Nightforce 8-32x56NXS
Remington VSSF II
ASE ULTRA S7 Moderator
Camera Fuji Finepix.
Range finder Nikon Buckmasters 800.
It was not long after a thunder storm so the air was nice, 1002hPa
Wind was almost nil as the storm had lashed rain out of the sky.
I aimed the top of his head and hit in the shoulder so I need some work.
that was ~2" low but it still did the job on Bugs.
I was shooting on a slight angle lower from me.
I used hold over rather than clicks.
The Bunny was standing proud so he offered me a tall target.
There is longer shots available on same farm, just bunnies don't often oblige.0 -
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GixxerThou wrote: »Shot my first medal sika this morning
Thats a fine Animal, you must be a fair animal to carry that Blaser too
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Headed of in the landrover saturday morning about 6.45 to my stalking ground got there at 7 parked up the landy and headed off walking to were the farmer had told me he had seen 3 stags last week got there and did not see a thing but there was alot of roaring going on at the oppisite side of my stalking ground so walked back to the landy and drove around a mile to the other side and sure enough seen what was making all the noise there was one stag low down on the hill and another one high up , the high up one was 290 yards out so that was a no , so i got into the field and made my was up to some good cover and spotted the low down stag below me 125 yards pacing over and back roaring at the stag on the hill i let a roar out of me to stop him and took the shot just behind the shoulder he dropped right away but got up again walked 3 yards and dropped again this time for good , walked down to him he was a 10 pointer , belld him and drove back for the quad to take him out so am fairly happy with my first day out this year , heres a pic of him
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Going through old phone pics, this was a deer I shot on the 1st November 2007, Since the 1st is almost upon us i may post it up now.
Sako 75 6.5x55 with a Nikon 2.5-10x56 Scope. Norma 120 Grain Ballistic Tipped.
It was that day I decided i wanted more mag, as I shot her ~250 and she was lying down chewing the cud with a load of other does and fawns.
The head was the only shot on offer so I picked my shot, I was 45mins or more before i squeezed off the shot.
Irony is I was out after Phezzies that day and I saw a cock in the same field 0
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