Thread: Trip Report 2 - Solo Mission

• Got approval from the fam to head out for 3 nights and 3 days solo
• Goals: Explore a new part of a block, shoot a deer with the 223 for the thread :thumbs-up: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....23-deer-64884/
• Got Friday off work
• Finished work, drove to block, walked 18km to camp
• Arrived in dark
• Somehow I reset my new phone (after destroying my last one on the last trip) and because of having no reception, the time got changed to some random time on 1st Jan
• Woke up at some point in the dark, no idea of the time
• Felt good, rested enough, boots on, packed stuff, bashed way up hill
• Foggy, cold, good
• After 50 vertical meters, cooking hot, glasses fogged
• Kept climbing
• Punched through fog
• Moon bright above, fog like ocean waves
• This is living!
• Kept walking, getting light
• Hit 1000m started to hear hind and fawn
• Watch and wait, too cute to shoot
• Kept going, hit 1300m
• Look over ledge, yearling feeding across basin
• Perfect sniper spot, flat bench, stable rest, no wind
• New stow-it jacket for rear-rest
• Range, dial, 73gr ELD-M loaded and ready
• Breathe, squeeze, bang, deer rolling, then lodged in bush
• Made gun safe, packed up stuff
• Traversed, found deer (far easier than that bloody pig from 2 weeks ago!!!) https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....report-112027/
• Made coffee, took photos, enjoyed view and enjoyed the accuracy of that little Elude 223, what a rifle!
• Heard a hind and fawn nearby, went for a look 10m around the bend to see if I could take a photo
• Hear something behind me, turn back, where's the deer, the rifle... my pack?
• Deer came dislodged and bowled my stuff down the hill, dumb mistake, will never put stuff below deer again!
• Neck-shot, took all 4 legs and straps
• Butchery done, new technique, no hair or crap on the meat, niiiice
• Heavy pack! What the hell.
• Stashed pack in shade, went for a walk for an hour, stunning morning
• Descend and spent the day back at camp boning out meat, eating, drinking water, drinking more water, and swimming.
• This is living!
• Headed back to civilisation in the morning before it got too hot
• Long walk, heavy pack
• Back at home with the fam a day early, everyone happy, more veni
• Back at work
• Missing the bush already

Great stuff- living!

Nice!

Unusual trip report divided into a series of bullet points (no pun intended), but excellent all the same
Well done

Awesome

Originally Posted by Bos

Unusual trip report divided into a series of bullet points (no pun intended), but excellent all the same
Well done

Its the new way to do it.

Makes it easier to read. Well done

Originally Posted by Springy

• Butchery done, new technique, no hair or crap on the meat, niiiice
  
  

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Great write up. Any tips on this 'technique' used.

Originally Posted by Quicknock

Great write up. Any tips on this 'technique' used.

He uses the points of his bullets

Originally Posted by Quicknock

Great write up. Any tips on this 'technique' used.

I got shown by a new hunting buddy recently who has combined a few techniques into one. Basically, peal the skin of the legs and stomach on one side, drape it on the ground. Do the inside of that same side. Take legs off that side and drop them in bags. Roll the animal over, do the other side then backstraps are done when you just peal that whole lot of skin off. It's so quick when you get practised. The guy who showed me does 4 legs and backstraps with zero hair in approx 10 mins... and that was while explaining the process to me.

I'm sure there's other techniques out there but this has been the easiest one I've found. Also keeping a hoof locked between your legs at all times to move the animal around and just in case it kicks (not that I've had that happen but I've heard some people have).

● Excellent

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

● Excellent

I see what you did there!!

Good grief that's one good/ new way of reporting a hunt..I liked it and well done on your success.