Sadie Hunt cont.
So I now needed to blood my new to me rifle. So on Monday I headed up to a local DOC block that I frequent. Was happy to get a goat either for self, Sadie, commercial pet food or a deer.
Off I went. Needless to say I had a good walk n poke around. A bit of deer sign, no wallows where I thought there might have been. Having learned from previous experience using a rifle with iron sights, binoculars is quite a useful tool to have. I had one n was using it. The bush is open in places and you can see 60-80 metres at times and is good for being able to positively ID’ng your target/s. So much so at one stop I scanned the area, couldn’t see see anything then started to move off two goats popped out n took off....felt like a bit of a prat... One would of being 10-12 metres away the other 20m maybe. To top it off as I came up to a junction and was considering which way to go, something crashed off...no idea what it was.
I came back after walking over 16000 steps ...and humbled....
Attempt 2...
Had a bit of rain during the week. Underfoot wasn’t going to be quite so crunchy and I really needed to get some dog tucker. I headed out again but as going to focus on one area to bring home a result.
A lot of walking quietly (as possible) and scanning using the binoculars happen. The binos were nothing flash, a set of Soviet era Russian made one that I dad purchased sometime in the 60s-early 70s. More than suitable for the glassing at hand.
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Stopped to glass a area. Nup, nothing. Move forward, shit white goat,movement, at once! Nanny, I’ll try for a neck shot.
Fired. Saw it drop. Got up again...bugger.
3-4 animals take off, heading for further cover. Walk up to try n keep the nanny in sight. No joy. Start looking for blood trail, evidence of a hit. Found blood. And some more ...and more. Ok I have a trail to follow. As I’m tracking I spot something off to my right. Billy. Rifle up, onto shoulder. Bang. Looking like a solid hit.
Conundrum... do I follow the trail or check out the second one...? I follow the first trail. All looking good, come to a puddle...then nothing. I cast around ...nup, nup. Start again. Cast around. No , no , no. Shitballs. Not ideal. Make the call to look for the billy.
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Go back to find approximate spot where I shot from. Go searching. Catch a whiff of billy. Looking, looking, sniffing, looking, snif... ah there it is.
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Shot a bit further back than I thought. Started behind the ribs n quartered through to the opposite shoulder. Punctured the gut. I skin so I can take all available meat. Hate wasting it these days, even if it’s stinky billy. Won’t be taking the bones or offal(heart, kidneys etc) though.
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Meat now cut up and freezing it down so can bag it up and store it free flow.
Hot barrels every one.
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