Bailey worth her weight in gold
Mar 12, 2020 16:58:54 GMT -5
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 12, 2020 16:58:54 GMT -5
Greetings
Tonight we have high freezing winds and heavy showers,so I thought any deer tonight will be sheltered on a particular road.
I gets to the area parks up I left Bailey in the truck thinking that there was no point getting her wet and cold if I was wrong.
I put rifle on my shoulder got the trigger sticks and set off for a look just as a big rain shower arrived, but I had the leggings and wet gear on so I marched on.
Looked through the thermal imager and by the Lord two white dots were there about five hundred yards up the road on the tree edge.
I set off in stalk mode never checked again until I thought I was in range, slowly crept up to the road and pinged them at 200yds with the rangefinder Binos.
Set the scope on the 200yds Mark eased up and set the sticks up.
Then eased my self up behind them got the rifle settled in and waited for a couple of seconds and then I sent the 308 copper bullet on its way.
She lifted at the shot and headed into the trees, one thing was for sure it never went through her shoulders.
I walked up found the strike, had a very quick look and no deer, so I left the sticks at the strike and fast walked back to the van,
Drove back up to the sticks, got Bailey out and this Time I put a tracking harness and lead onto her, it was getting too late to send her alone then wait for her to return to take me back in.
Bearing in mind the ground was wet it was raining the light was going and I could see no sign under Sitka trees.
Immediately she was onto it and I followed at a he'll of a pace for an old codger like me.
She took me in the trees around 200yds straight to it laying dead with a bullet just behind its shoulder.
A very quick gralloch and set off back to the van, got to the van at 6.25 by 6.35 it was too dark to shoot through the scope.
I hate having to go into thick Sitka in the evening it is very easy to be get disorientated it almost caught me out once before.
Without Bailey that deer in there would of been terrible to find and definitely would of been left out and wasted.
But all's well that ends well.
Regards
Billy.
Tonight we have high freezing winds and heavy showers,so I thought any deer tonight will be sheltered on a particular road.
I gets to the area parks up I left Bailey in the truck thinking that there was no point getting her wet and cold if I was wrong.
I put rifle on my shoulder got the trigger sticks and set off for a look just as a big rain shower arrived, but I had the leggings and wet gear on so I marched on.
Looked through the thermal imager and by the Lord two white dots were there about five hundred yards up the road on the tree edge.
I set off in stalk mode never checked again until I thought I was in range, slowly crept up to the road and pinged them at 200yds with the rangefinder Binos.
Set the scope on the 200yds Mark eased up and set the sticks up.
Then eased my self up behind them got the rifle settled in and waited for a couple of seconds and then I sent the 308 copper bullet on its way.
She lifted at the shot and headed into the trees, one thing was for sure it never went through her shoulders.
I walked up found the strike, had a very quick look and no deer, so I left the sticks at the strike and fast walked back to the van,
Drove back up to the sticks, got Bailey out and this Time I put a tracking harness and lead onto her, it was getting too late to send her alone then wait for her to return to take me back in.
Bearing in mind the ground was wet it was raining the light was going and I could see no sign under Sitka trees.
Immediately she was onto it and I followed at a he'll of a pace for an old codger like me.
She took me in the trees around 200yds straight to it laying dead with a bullet just behind its shoulder.
A very quick gralloch and set off back to the van, got to the van at 6.25 by 6.35 it was too dark to shoot through the scope.
I hate having to go into thick Sitka in the evening it is very easy to be get disorientated it almost caught me out once before.
Without Bailey that deer in there would of been terrible to find and definitely would of been left out and wasted.
But all's well that ends well.
Regards
Billy.
