Thread: My first Roar hunt a "roaring success" sort of.....

So after dropping the fallow back to the chiller to hang we decided to visit another face that I had shot my first boar on some months ago.

We waited and watched for about 40 minutes, nothing no roars no pigs no deer.
Then just out of luck I saw a familiar orange hue. I had looked up just in time to see his arse dissappear into the scrub.
We waited and watched knowing he would come out again and probably feed onto the tussock face opposite us.
Well about 30 minutes later he did and we quickly ranged him at 450 yards.
By my standards a long shot a very long shot, but having successfully shot my rifle out to over 500 yards on steel to confirm my drop charts. Then be dipped into the scrub again..... Oh the frustration.
We waited and waited and waited.... 40 minutes go by and nothing.
We started discussing setting up camp as it was getting late in the day and we didn't want to set up in the dark again. I Decided to have one more quick cursory glass. Literally put my binos to my eyes and couldn't believe it I was looking at a nice healthy red spiker still at 450 yards.
It was my turn to shoot, I consulted the drop chart and dialled up the elevation, lay down across my pack and chambered a round, my mate was spotting so when he was ready I squeezed a round off....... The spiker dropped on the spot, not a single step literally his legs just folded under him and he never moved again.