Thread: success at last

Well finally manages to shoot a deer over the dog.

She looks quite happy with herself when in fact she did f all to help. Wind not right for her to indicate, however big points for not breaking at the shot, i did not expect her too, actually she is very steady to the shot. Although I knew where the deer was she did a good job of tracking to it.



Spotted deer in a scrubby bit of clearing, head down feeding. No shot as she was hidden by scrub so walked up..bloody wind was up my arse so was expecting her to bolt which she did at about 35 meters. impressed with Barnes 130s, shot a little high and shot the spine, blew the deer off its feet on the spot.

With the drought broken we wondered off to find my mate a deer, which we duly did, nice shot on a knobby at about 150. Dog managed to steal an eye fillet before we noticed…bit of a dirty look for that one, lucky I had a deer on the ground to replace it.

This morning we left early, had a look on a clearing that we have both hunted and as we were leaving said we had never seen a deer on it. Wondered about 10 meters away, turned round for a last look and 2 deer.

At 200 odd I gave up the shot to my mate with the 270, he flattened a yearling.

The other deer did not run off, actually wondered closer to us, sat down and lined her up at 150, buggar me 2 deer each and a arse breaking walk out. Managed to tie up the dog to stop any more free lunches!

Good to stock up the fridge for the BBQ season, so all good.

Merry Xmas boys and Girls

Cheers

Dino