Thread: A big 24 hours

Hooray!! Finally some rain and no work today or tomorrow. Still I was awake and out of bed by 6am and after sorting a few jobs and getting some gear together for our NZ trip in ten days, I was getting itchy feet. A phone call to a mate and an overnight trip was sorted out. No need for a tent as we would stay with a farmer mate close to where we were going to hunt.We left town at 12.30 with a couple of hot chickens for dinner. We pulled up out side the property and pulled out the binos to try and spot the pests we had been asked to deal with. They weren't in the far corner but Brett soon spotted 2 does and their fawns down across the creek 750yds away. Some roos were also spotted 500yds further to the left of the deer but closer to us. A quick plan was made, gear grabbed and we hurried of into the drizzle to get into shooting range and away from the road. We crawled up over a dam bank and now the deer were 550yds and the roos 300yds. A buck had appeared with the other four deer. We check our drop charts, dialed our scopes and then checked each others charts and dialing and worked out what to allow for the wind. I said I'll take the buck as the farmers daughter wants antlers for her lounge room wall. Brett lined up one of the fawns. On the count of three we both fired and 2 deer hit the deck. We then turned our attention to the (pests) roos, redialed and gave them some hurry up.

One for the farmers daughter


One for steak to cook at work for lunch
We got to work with the knife and headed up to the farm house. I stayed and had a cuppa with the farmer and then head skinned and cut the bucks head while Brett went off to check his trail cams and have a hunt for a Sambar

What he found


He very considerately left the stag overnight to allow me to help him cut and carry it next morning


When we arrived back at the car after the cut and carry we could hear a wild dog howling. A bit of hurried manouvering was required to get into a reasonable location and then a few howls later a dog appeared 190yds away on the edge of some bush. To close to be safe from the 7/08


We arrived back home at 12.30, and I have to say it was a very enjoyable 24 hours

Cheers Ackley