Thread: Patience

For a while now my son has his heart set on getting him a Black fallow for a skin. A hunt on a mates farm that holds few fallow planned start of this year was put on hold due to me having a accident.
Any way out the back of the farm i work on yesterday looking for red red yearling or two i spotted a black fallow spiker sitting under a Manuka tree about 250m away. I see the odd fallow but mainly reds.
No way of closing gap and a bit of wind we moved along the ridge to open up the angle a bit. Got the boy all set up and waited after five minutes and it stood up and walk straight behind a patch of bush, Another 5 minutes and me saying we will see it come out. Another to bucks walked out from behind the patch of bush with the black one in toe. The game plan was change, one i thought one was a pretty good buck. They were on the move feeding in and out of clearings going in behind broken bush last seen going in to a gut
We were able to drop down the face 50m on to a little flat and waited and waited. About half a hour had past and i was starting to give up hope when down in the creek a red stag walked up a game trail out on to the grass and while watching this just below it i seen a fallow coming out off the onga onga below him, getting the boy all set up again it was the medium size buck fallowed by the bigger buck. You ready "yep yep" the bigger buck gave his mate a gentle bit off encouragement with his antler and stopped in his tracks presenting a shot. It look to be a good hit with the buck crashing down into the bush.
A few high fives and chat about what just happen and a very happy boy.
Made our way to the gully head and down the broken face using stock and game trails getting closer the dog started showing a lot of interest of all the fresh sign. A easy find down the bank for the dog and boy. A very happy boy with his first real Buck

Holy smoke!!!!!!!! thats a ripper,far better than a lot of us other folks have even seen let alone shot.... good on ya Dad. good on ya Lad....

@Micky Duck it is a very nice buck but the photos make it look a lot bigger but don't worry i was tempted to take the gun of him

Thats a wall hanger,good effort team. Bloody good shot too,no buck walking away.

@hebe he is having a good year this was out the back in that paddock i drove around to pick you up. Its getting short over the boundary so they must have been pushed in

Nice looking buck! Well done to the young fella, and well done Dad, parenting done right. One can only imagine the whispered conversations while waiting for those deer to present themselves.

Nice

That buck is a bit of alright. Awesome stuff father and son.


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Originally Posted by bigbear

@hebe he is having a good year this was out the back in that paddock i drove around to pick you up. Its getting short over the boundary so they must have been pushed in

Jeez is he what. He’ll be stoked, good to see Tui out on the hill as well.

Fantastic buck. Well done dad and son. A lifetime of memories from a moment shared.

If only I could see a buck like that , let alone shoot one . Don't know how they breed where we hunt on doc as all I ever see is females ....
Congrats to the lad and good job Dad .
Definitely parenting done right .
If he keeps thus up you will need a very big wall for all the impressive heads .

I think we waited about a hour all up, my patience were wearing thin He is a lucky boy but when i finish this job when ever that is i don't want to look back and think "man i should have let him shoot that"
The real black fallow was the spiker so he got to live anther day

Nice buck for the young lad great work
The chest blaze on your dog is familiar lol

You and the young fella should be pretty stoked with that buck well done both of you.