Thread: Family stuff

Thursday night my son and grandson and I went for a lads night out.
In the evening 14 year old James got his 3rd deer with me which was a nice Fallow spiker at 200 odd yards - with "his" Sako A7 which is actually "mine". Nice high shoulder shot. Its a great set up for a boy with an 18" barrel and shooting 120grn NBTs.
Craig then got a Fallow spiker too.

Craig might post some pics of him and James.

The next morning James slept in and Craig and I were off at 5am.
I soon spotted a Red and 3 Fallow in the same gully about a KM away, so we made a bee line for them. As we staked in Craig dropped back to video the shots and to keep out of sight of a young hind up on a ridge. I got to within about 100 yards and a young velvet stag was all I could see so I gave him a 160grn 7mm in the shoulder (or there abouts). He bolted and 5 other deer appeared and picking what I thought was the same stag I let rip at him running at about 150 yards and hit him which made him stagger and stop which allowed me to get in a finisher.

I then looked back to where the action had started and bugger me there was the original stag I fired at upside down. He had only gone 50 yards. Then looking back at the 2nd one through my binos I could see that his velvet was better than what I would usually shoot. Oh well, shit happens, and they are still making them.

Mean while 3 Fallow were trotting off but they were quite safe - I had one more deer than I really wanted anyway (it turned out that the cocky accepted one for sausages so it urned out ok).

So Craig walked back to camp and packed up and collected their Fallow while I attended to the 2 Reds. By the time James arrived I had all of the legs and bits and pieces humped up onto a knob where he could carry then down to the quad he had nervously driven down (yup, this was a quad assisted mission). Nervous is ok, because nervous is safe.

When we got back to the woolshed my cocky mate was wanting us to go and shoot a Fallow in some young trees that I had planted for him...he had seen it that morning...but that can wait until next week







It was great having Tilly back on the hill with me after her enforced month off after dislocating her hip. She coped really well but is looking a bit sorry for herself this morning. The 2 Reds were her 150th and 151st deer we have shot together.

Oh well, shit happens, and they are still making them.

Thata boy !! I got out an amaxed a couple myself last week...

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Oh well, shit happens, and they are still making them.

Thata boy !! I got out an amaxed a couple myself last week...

Are you pleased with the new rifle?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Are you pleased with the new rifle?

I absolutely love it. Best rifle ive owned hands down. Ive got a neopod bipod on it. VX5 HD scope and sako rings. All up with 4 in the mag it weighs 3.9kg . The factory brake makes it a baby to shoot and in hunting situations its awesome. I was able to spot all 3 shots and knew the deer would be DOA . Using 73gns of 2225 im getting 3040 FPS . Its very accurate.Its all i need these days .

Nice work guys, what an awesome number of deer you and Tilly have taken together, long may it continue.

Great result with Tilly, what were the symptoms of the dislocated hip and how did you address it as you have a superb result.

One of our Working Cocker Spaniel gun dogs came limping out of heavy cover chasing rabbits her back leg looked at a strange angle and she was not putting a great deal of weight on it.

Took her to the vet who xrayed the area said it could be her knee or hip ?

Anyhow we have confined her to her kennel and only gets out on a leash no more running about.

She seems to be improving but went through a faze of her hip or knee popping as she walked a bit weird as you could hear it, she seems okay no obvious pain and keen to run but still not 100% weight on the leg and it still looks kind of out of line.

Would appreciate your feed back.

Cheers

What a great way to bond a family.

Originally Posted by xtightg

Great result with Tilly, what were the symptoms of the dislocated hip and how did you address it as you have a superb result.

One of our Working Cocker Spaniel gun dogs came limping out of heavy cover chasing rabbits her back leg looked at a strange angle and she was not putting a great deal of weight on it.

Took her to the vet who xrayed the area said it could be her knee or hip ?

Anyhow we have confined her to her kennel and only gets out on a leash no more running about.

She seems to be improving but went through a faze of her hip or knee popping as she walked a bit weird as you could hear it, she seems okay no obvious pain and keen to run but still not 100% weight on the leg and it still looks kind of out of line.

Would appreciate your feed back.

Cheers

@xtightg I have answered your PM.

Some nice venison there for christmas Bruce.
Well done

maybe try feeding Tilly a slither of that velvet each day for a while, may help things along.

Good stuff Tahr, hope that velvet is sitting in the freezer, should pay for the trip with a bit left over!

Originally Posted by kbrebs

Good stuff Tahr, hope that velvet is sitting in the freezer, should pay for the trip with a bit left over!

Or give it to an old dog with aging joints to chew on. Sounds like she deserves it. Thanks for the story. Lucky boy that young fella. It is seriously cool that three generations can get out and enjoy time on the hill together. Don't stop.

AWESOME to see Tilly back out on the hill with you. good the young fella is getting into it with gusto...funny how they "inherit" a good rifle like that.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

AWESOME to see Tilly back out on the hill with you. good the young fella is getting into it with gusto...funny how they "inherit" a good rifle like that.

Yes, I was wrapped to have her back with me. Its a silly thing but without her I really did have the feeling something was missing.

James just needs to understand now (and I think he does) that so far its been quite soft hunting and greater satisfaction will come from greater challenges. He tramps in the Tararuas with his school and isn't afraid of a challenge so I think he will be up for it. He's been into the DOC Haurangis with us too. So now he needs to get a public land deer and do the hard yards. Im sure he will grow into it we need to let him come to it in his own time and not project our own expectations onto him. Regardless I will still love him to the moon and back - even if he ends up as a Police cabinet minister in a Labour government.

Nice work