Thread: Teaching a new dog new tricks

I’d taken Friday off work with the sole plan of heading into the hills, maybe over night. My son and a mate wanted to come and James wanted to bring his pup so an easy walk, close to home was chosen.
We play the game ‘guess how many cars are in the car park’ as we drive down the road as a couple of wann be famous youtubers have been displaying miles too much information recently and the place is the busiest it’s been in the 25 years I’ve been hunting it. I was wrong, but relieved that there was only two cars in the car park and not a single footprint on the track as we walked into the first glassing spot.
Ten minutes up the track we dropped off the track md I showed the lads a great glassing spot for a quick after work hunt, it didn’t take me long to spot a flow at 900 yards and it took James less time to work out that he didn’t want his pup on a leash!
We kept walking for another 40 or so minutes where we pulled into another glassing spot and I spotted a red at a little over 900 yards, by now it was around 5:00pm and still very hot. We wandered up the track and dumped our packs and sat down for a good glass. Around ten minutes later Ben spotted a fallow over 1000 yards away and then another only 570 yards away, prior to moving down the ridge to take a shot, he spotted another red, so we thought we’d shoot both of them.
By the time we got down to a good shooting spot the fallow buck HD sat down and we couldn’t get a good angle on the red, from the same spot. James lined up the resting fallow with my Tikka .284 and I pointed my Tikka .260 in the same direction.