Thread: Wet but successful

I went down to Pureora yesterday, raining when I got there, but set up the tent, put on the wet weathers and off to check out a couple of handy gullies the deer seem to like. Some very fresh sign but nothing seen. A bit of a late start this morning, partly because I had to change a flat tyre. It got wetter and wetter as the morning wore on. After a couple of hours I was working my way across a knob and had two deer run up to me, a hind stopped to my left, but the front end was behind a tree, a young stag was about 15m directly in front looking at me. Flipped the alumina caps, cocked the Bergara and sent a 160gr FTX on its way. The deer ran off. The dog started tracking as soon as we got to where the deer had been and tracked perfectly for a reasonable distance right to the deer. I could see no blood (not surprising with a front-on chest shot), and it would have taken me quite a while to find it without the dog. MD’s mantra of trusting the dog was running through my head.

After taking the back legs, backsteaks and one shoulder off I opened him up to get the eye fillets and heart. I couldn’t feel the heart in the chest cavity, but when I pulled everything out I could see why - the heart was torn to bits!

It took a bit under an hour back to the car with the boned out meat
@bigbear

Looking at the GPS marks and track, the deer went about 80m before dropping, within the often quoted "up to 100m after a heart shot".

Great work! I'm assuming the south block or have they not dropped the green rain yet?

Nice work, really satisfying when the dog tracks them down like that.

Good persistence considering the weather @Cigar

Well done. Give that man a cigar.

awesome ...when it rains in pureora ...it rains

Well done in that shit weather,especially the dog.

My rain gauge says 50mm over the last 36 hours, so bloody well done being out in that shite! The deer are, as usual, where you find them

great stuff man and hound...oh how that sniffer on front of the face saves our bacon time and time again.....good to hear you two are getting your "mojo" on.

dont know about ruining the heart though...be a bit messy cutting steaks out of it LOL...better than buggering the eye fillets all the same.

Well done, a nice wee eater

@bigbear is this one of Finns pups?

@hebe no out off her first litter, basically the same bred as Finn

way to go! now that's teamwork. thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by Brindog

nice one cool looking dog as well what rifle do you have and does anyone know what the genetics are like and the deer numbers heading in from southland to visit some friends

Rifle is a Bergara single-shot 308, 16.5" barrel