Thread: Learning Curve

Update.

Brian and I went out yesterday to look for the belt and pig.
Couldn't find the belt in spite of looking for an hour or so. It was steep thick shit. Sam's insurance is paying up.

I thought it was strange not finding the pig as we looked for the belt so I crossed back to the side I had shot it from and climbed up to look into the face again. It had been a 400 yard shot so I used my range finder to pin point where it had been. Once I got into the right little gully I virtually went straight to it (I could smell it). He was a big lump of a boar but his hooks were pretty average. I will pick them up sometime when he rots down a bit. He was pretty putrid.



Of course we had to go for a hunt when we had finished mucking around. Brian saw a good velvet stag which he left and later on we met up and watched a nice sheltered spot (howling wind). I shot a young a hind off my knees with the .223 at 150 yards. It was a centre of shoulder hit which made it rear and and fall back, and then bugger off for 30 yards before tipping over. It was easy to find. Had left Tilly at home for a rest so Brian's dog Tux was on duty.




Brian & Tux


Brian on the knife. We have a good system going. I do the back steaks and hand them to Brian to bag. Then I remove the first leg and he hangs it up and skins or bones it, and then I take off the other legs and do a couple too. This time the shoulders were buggered so while Brian skinned the 2 back legs (we left the bone in) I got the inside steaks (the gutless method).

Originally Posted by Tahr

Update.

Brian and I went out yesterday to look for the belt and pig.
Couldn't find the belt in spite of looking for an hour or so. It was steep thick shit. Sam's insurance is paying up.

I thought it was strange not finding the pig as we looked for the belt so I crossed back to the side I had shot it from and climbed up to look into the face again. It had been a 400 yard shot so I used my range finder to pin point where it had been. Once I got into the right little gully I virtually went straight to it (I could smell it). He was a big lump of a boar but his hooks were pretty average. I will pick them up sometime when he rots down a bit. He was pretty putrid.

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Of course we had to go for a hunt when we had finished mucking around. Brian saw a good velvet stag which he left and later on we met up and watched a nice sheltered spot (howling wind). I shot a young a hind off my knees with the .223 at 150 yards. It was a centre of shoulder hit which made it rear and and fall back, and then bugger off for 30 yards before tipping over. It was easy to find. Had left Tilly at home for a rest so Brian's dog Tux was on duty.

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Brian & Tux
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Brian on the knife. We have a good system going. I do the back steaks and hand them to Brian to bag. Then I remove the first leg and he hangs it up and skins or bones it, and then I take off the other legs and do a couple too. This time the shoulders were buggered so while Brian skinned the 2 back legs (we left the bone in) I got the inside steaks (the gutless method).
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At the rate you're killing them, I wonder if there will be enough of them left for Santa to pull his sled with.