Thread: First fail - 6.5mm 143gr ELD-X

Righto, so I was talking to my mate down in the CNI this arvo looking to set up a goat and spiker trip in the first week of the school hols. So he says did so and so ever get hold of you?

Anyway, long story short, the deer was found by one of the farmhands a couple of days after we left, dead in a drain below a steep cutting into the scrubby spur where the dog worked up. Would have toppled over the edge of an old slip that was cleaned up and cut back years ago. Know exactly where that is. To be fair it was in a proper torrent of rain by the time the dog got near there. I know it’s the same animal cos the description fits perfectly, small runty red male, drilled right through the shoulder, small entry on the right, bigger hole on the left side. And no one else had been anywhere near there. Hoping like hell he took photos, will get hold of him soon hopefully. Being winter the rear end was still good for dog tucker apparently, a short walk from the race, why wouldn’t you?

Bloody glad to know it didn’t last long, didn’t go as far as we thought and probably carked it a few minutes after it disappeared over the ridgeline.