Thread: This is how you hunt

My spot for the day. Decided I deserve some comfort when I'm hunting. This spot gives me 360deg line of sight. Heard a shot from @Mooseman in the distance but no luck from either of us tonight. Just nice to get out again after lockdown, bad weather or other commitments meant we hadn't been out for a month.

Beautiful mate.


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Just missing a shade umbrella and the BBQ!

that's living!

Gotta love that chair, pity those three deer I seen and missed didn't come out up your end may have had some venison.

Really early on in my hunting life I asked an older dude what his secret was, as he was always coming back with deer. Early 1980's, so they were hard to come by.

A book. Was his answer. He was a slip hunter in the shitty ends to the Tararuas and Ruahines. He had his half dozen favorite slips in each set of Ranges, and had blazed away with ex war surplus .303 rounds till he knew the distances to the top and bottom of each the slips. Then when he went hunting he'd get into position, make himself comfortable and get out his book. As he said : I can either bush hunt for 4 hours and possibly get a donk. Or I can sit here for 4 hours and almost guarentee I'll get a deer on this slip.

Shameless, Shameless, Shameless.
Nah, just super jealous.

Originally Posted by XR500

Really early on in my hunting life I asked an older dude what his secret was, as he was always coming back with deer. Early 1980's, so they were hard to come by.

A book. Was his answer. He was a slip hunter in the shitty ends to the Tararuas and Ruahines. He had his half dozen favorite slips in each set of Ranges, and had blazed away with ex war surplus .303 rounds till he knew the distances to the top and bottom of each the slips. Then when he went hunting he'd get into position, make himself comfortable and get out his book. As he said : I can either bush hunt for 4 hours and possibly get a donk. Or I can sit here for 4 hours and almost guarentee I'll get a deer on this slip.

Thanks for posting. Really good thinking right there, especially for old farts . . .

Originally Posted by Dusty Fog

certainly beats sitting at home,,but im surprised that mooseman missed

Story of my life at the moment , just back from checking rifle at 300 yards, both shots with 2 inches of my aim point. Last night my rest was less than good which is what I will put it down to.

Originally Posted by Mooseman

Story of my life at the moment , just back from checking rifle at 300 yards, both shots with 2 inches of my aim point. Last night my rest was less than good which is what I will put it down to.

Always disappointing to conclude your zero was off, but even more disappointing to conclude it wasn't.

Originally Posted by Josan

Always disappointing to conclude your zero was off, but even more disappointing to conclude it wasn't.

You are so right , I suppose the only good thing to come out of it is the deer will be fatter nextime.

Bad bullets?

Originally Posted by Mooseman

You are so right , I suppose the only good thing to come out of it is the deer will be fatter nextime.

Or on someone elses BBQ

Gentleman hunting right there

Originally Posted by Woody

Bad bullets?

Nah, bad management on my behalf.