Thread: The fallow looking red

Originally Posted by Steve338

Went hunting with sneeze and titan308, Sneeze and I clambered up to a high point to glass the surrounding gullies, Titan headed over to glass a honeypot.

In qt he last half hour of sunlight I spotted a couple of animals at the bush edge approx 600 yards away, they looked like Fallow at a glance and very soon fed out of sight. After a while one poked its nose out, "yep, a fallow" we both said, it cautiously fed its way out into the open, minutes later the second deer followed the 'fallow' out.

"Shit, there's a red tailing that fallow" we both said, never seen that before.

They fed around a face at 490 yards and were entering a large gully which we were concerned might hide them. We couldn't get any closer as the ground between was fully exposed.

We set up and let rip, me with the Edge and Sneeze with the 243AI, a chip shot for me and not much harder for my undergunned off-sider.

Both went down and we ambled over and were puzzled at my 'Fallow', it had. Characteristics of possible both red and fallow had us puzzled. I gutted it and carried out whole as Sneeze isn't too keen on carrying anything heavier than a cup of coffee.

Titan308 had also shot a yearling so we had a pile of meat.

My deer puzzled a few, she was pregnant and we learnt that reds and fallow cannot interbreed, her offspring was a typical red deer colour. Warren from NZDA had a look and thinks she had a melanistic gene which is not common in reds.

I would have bet my left nut she was a fallow when we saw her on the hoof.





Great hunt, cheers fellas

Good work boys,are going to get the jaw aged? I reckon that Hind is pretty old aswell.