Thread: How to sight in a rifle - the right way

Originally Posted by JoshC

Well done, you did better than me last night. Hunted for 2 hours before seeing an animal, a young fallow buck, too far away to stalk. Then after another hour finally bumped into another deer, a fawn. Left it, and round the corner bumped into its mum. Didn't see anything else until last light when I was climbing up out of a creek and 20m away was a young stag peering down over the scrub at me. No chance of a shot. Hunting's just like that sometimes.

Mate that sounds bloody successful to me! Seeing deer is a treat, now you know where to ninja back in tonight What colour was the fallow? When I first saw the goat I thought it might be a black fallow yearling but there aren't any in that block.

Very fun night and I am quite knackered today! Lots of butchering. Oh and thanks @7mmsaum for my Christmas present of a gimble for the rafters in my shed, even with it I really had to yank hard to get that big red up on the hook. Very cool set up though thanks!!! Worked a treat.

Also PS - this was a bloody big spiker. His body was as large as the 12 point stag I shot a while back. What's up with that? He had very minimal fat on him, so surely isn't that old? I thought maybe they were brothers, hanging out together but the velvet was only just stripping on my mate's spiker and mine was completely hard with huge coronets. Is that typical to have two deer in much a different antler state?