Photos thread -Hunting. MOD NOTE in post #1.

Lotharmike

Like a pin cushion sore today,

ESB Spaniel

Couple of pictures of my Springer with a couple of Duck(not shot by me), she is doing very well but her handler is having a disaster. Missed a handy one last week, another the gun was empty and a couple of flocks of 5s and 6s together i had no shot for safety reasons. Hopefully weather will turn around and the ponds fill up. But look Springer getting nice a fit for the main event.





Flighting a pond

ESB Spaniel

Well lads, finally got off the mark this morning. Got my first double mallard of the season on the river. Met a double mallard when I was just out of the car and they were just that bit too far so did not fire. Then I came to a series of S bends on the river where there is always a few duck feeding I sent the springer in at the first set of bends and there was nothing, so recalled Oddie back out and to my disgust about 11 mallard broke the last bend and was about 200 yards away....... Was it another unlucky day for me?????? Well I said to myself "just give a walk down you would never know there might be one or two that didn't get up". So as I approached where they had vacated up got 2 mallard to my right..... I nearly tripped over with excitement, hit the first one with 1st shot and then clipped second one with 2nd shot and I thought I hit him again with the 3rd, retrieved the 1st one and had a 5 minute walk before Oddie found the 2nd. Have video of the retrieves and shots that I will upload later and post in video thread. Here are the pictures.

Lotharmike

Waiting for dusk,no luck though.

German pointer

Got off the mark with this one last week just getting the chance to put it up now 150 yards

ESB Spaniel

Got on the river early this morning with Oddie and bagged a young mallard, had a chance at another 5 but gun was unloaded....what a sickner, will upload video later. Lovely fresh morning met a couple of young hens also one fully white and the other normal colours, no more then 10 weeks old i'd say. Now its time for some grub and Super Sunday, good weekend for me this one round.

cookimonster

.The previous weeks stalks only frustrated me with the amount of hinds and calves I came across with the odd stag bumped in thick undergrowth and no shot. I did manage to take a very small spiker to open the season.
Just at first light I glassed a small calf grazzing at the edge of a ride. I set up the sticks and waited, sure enough the arse of a hind came into few, so where's the spiker I mused....suddenly between me and the calf three more animals appeared, the spiker paused long enough for the shot.

By 9.30 I was stalking the edge of some open timber and came across this 8 pointer, who obliged me with a front on shot to the neck.




Happy days, will have to make room in the freezer.

DMW22

Decided to hit an area that I've been trying to clear a few foxes out of and this nice dog fox made it 4 so far and also saw another but it darted into a ditch before I got the rifle off my shoulder. Nice handy prone shot at ~120 yards through the chest.

ESB Spaniel

Well lads, got out yesterday and met these 2 in the very same place I shot the single last Sunday. Video to be uploaded later.

German pointer

Got this one this morning

Cass

That's a fine animal. What was the stalk like? What's the rifle set up? Looks good and light.

German pointer

Cass wrote: »

That's a fine animal. What was the stalk like? What's the rifle set up? Looks good and light.

Thanks. Not really a place to stalk more shooting than stalking on this perission. Its just the lie of the land and access to it. I shot a red spiker here last year at 453 yards and this one today was an exact replica of the shot at 460 yards.

We were watching a spiker this orning with a few does in a wooded area of about 3 or 4 acres for an hour or so and he was going in and out if cover but never gave us the chance of a shot. Then out of nowhere this fella appears and is circling the wood nose high in the air. He knows the others are around but hasn't seen them yet. Then he presents broadside to me. Meanwhile I'd say the spiker is in the wood ****ting himself..

The set up is a Remmy 700 .270 With Boyds thumbhole stock bedded, Rifel Basix trigger set very low, Harris Swivel 9-13, and a Steiner 3-12X56 Tatical Milarty FFP

cookimonster

Just took theses out of the dishwasher, would've tried the washing machine but they wouldn't fit:D:D:D:D.......

dodderangler

Nice but what kind of shine did the dishes get?

ESB Spaniel

Got out this morning for awhile and got these 2 beauties over my English setter Bailey.

tonytoc11

A nice 2 mornings flighting duck.

sniper83

Shot this buck last saturday, 230 yard head shot. He was in super condition.

allan450

first deer

dodderangler

Nice size on him. That a red?

allan450

that is a red alright.he was a big boy for a pricket.he was for the freezer now just to get his daddy for the wall ha ha.he should have the done the business with the females now.that will be it then until the meat runs out.il try for an a doe in feb

Cass

allan450 wrote: »

he was a big boy for a pricket.

You can say that again. To think is he about the size, if not bigger, than a Fallow Buck.

German pointer

allan450 wrote: »

that is a red alright.he was a big boy for a pricket.he was for the freezer now just to get his daddy for the wall ha ha.he should have the done the business with the females now.that will be it then until the meat runs out.il try for an a doe in feb

Lovely aminal Leave him hang as long as you can.

He's a big boy alright I got his brother last year and he was bigger that any full grown fallow stag I got. I let him hang for 22 days (not a misprint) in the fridge and it was the nicest bit of meat I ever had. So tender and juciey the meat fell off the bone

ESB Spaniel

Got out yesterday with my shooting partner and my Springer Oddie. Had a good days hunting with a nice mix bag. Some nice retrieves and good shooting.

dodderangler

^^^ not jealous. Nope not one bit.

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dodderangler wrote: »

^^^ not jealous. Nope not one bit.

Me neither great mixed bag good shooting !

allan450

]5 hours and the snipe and 2 duck by chance on the way out.

allan450

an other good day rough shooting.could have shot a few more but ran out of shells.dogs going well also.

irish setter

Training on snipe

mallards

Shot between myself and my cousin, cock bird each and I nabbed a fast Woodie that was horsing it in the gusty wind. Met a great load of birds but it was the start of our season up here in Tyrone so no one wants to be greedy. I'll swear I seen a woodcock also today but it could have been one of my resident ones?

Lotharmike

Hit the ground this morning very optimistic ,glassing surrounding ditches fields spotted these two lads catching some morning sun.Shot the first lad in the neck round passed through & demolished the other lad behind him. Hornandy 168 grain TAP



Cleared the two foxes into a ditch & started walking heard a couple of shots in the neighbouring ground & thought with the ruckus nothing would show.Slung the rifle lit a fag & started to head towards the car.Turned the corner by the deer fence & saw this lad.Dropped him off the shoulder 104 yards shooting down hill.All in all a great morning out.



the rope on his antlers must have been driving him mad it was wrapped very tight not great camo to be fair.