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.

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 . . .

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Nah, just super jealous.

Bad bullets?

Originally Posted by Woody

Bad bullets?

Nah, bad management on my behalf.

Hey @Mooseman this is probably the best thread to explain what happened last weekend in the same spot. You could always say it was a different deer, and I wont tell anybody that it stopped three times for you. No one will see your story on this thread, that will save some face. Hahaha and I wont say anything.

Originally Posted by BeeMan

Hey @Mooseman this is probably the best thread to explain what happened last weekend in the same spot. You could always say it was a different deer, and I wont tell anybody that it stopped three times for you. No one will see your story on this thread, that will save some face. Hahaha and I wont say anything.

Same shit different day, one deer this time good solid rest red dot on three shots one after each time it ran a bit, hit this time , couldn't find it that evening. Beeman and son and dog back in morning and to cut a long story short tracked the wounded deer to a spot about 400 yds into pines from where it was hit only to find a pile of guts , liver, etc. Aliens got it ??? Nah we are sure pig hunters dogs caught it and they took it home, there was a pig hunter we told what had happened that evening. So the canon can sit in the cabinet and think of what's doing for a while and the 6.5 can come for a walk .

Originally Posted by Mooseman

Same shit different day, one deer this time good solid rest red dot on three shots one after each time it ran a bit, hit this time , couldn't find it that evening. Beeman and son and dog back in morning and to cut a long story short tracked the wounded deer to a spot about 400 yds into pines from where it was hit only to find a pile of guts , liver, etc. Aliens got it ??? Nah we are sure pig hunters dogs caught it and they took it home, there was a pig hunter we told what had happened that evening. So the canon can sit in the cabinet and think of what's doing for a while and the 6.5 can come for a walk .

Exactly @Mooseman . Sometimes a rifle needs to be taught a damn good lesson. Let it sulk in the cabinet for a while.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Exactly @Mooseman . Sometimes a rifle needs to be taught a damn good lesson. Let it sulk in the cabinet for a while.

Wife told me to put it in time out.

Shows how good Reba is though aye @Mooseman. They still wouldn't have found it without her. The boy's were going in the wrong direction.