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Post by dadfsr on Apr 15, 2013 8:33:10 GMT -5
Sounds like a typical Monday!
Loved the pics of your grandaughter!!
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Post by schall53 on Apr 15, 2013 9:12:14 GMT -5
Pictures of cute grandchild, deer, where is the picture of the cute girl with the chainsaw. ;D ;D
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 16, 2013 6:02:13 GMT -5
Went out this morning in a howling wind , i did not see very much but i came upon a Buck feeding in a bit of shelter around 200yds away, i was on the logging road, i put the rifle onto the sticks but i just could not get steady on him because of the wind the last thing i want to do is gut shoot a deer, apart from it being inhumane in the uk they are put in the bin. So after a while he cottoned on i was there and he left at a high rate of knots. I was not best pleased but that is hunting for you. I thought i would come home down the mid beat and just before i got home i decided to have one last look on a sheltered restock and BINGO on wa on there, he ran fro the trees, so i let him go in, i moved back up the logging road a waited about ten minutes later he appeared on the road, this time i was lying prone on the rifle bipod and i sent the bullet,it hit him and he went into the trees, BUT i had Ellie with me, and we found him dead he had gone in and turned to his right and went around twenty yards, it is very difficult to follow blood in thicket stage sitka spruce , one is pushing yourself through it and the floor is covered in pine needle which soaks the blood up . The star of the show regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 19, 2013 8:31:42 GMT -5
Greetings This week we have ended up with 6 bucks so not a bad week after all. i have pictures of two of them and i will post them but for a change i will put a picture in of one of my favourite areas, it is called the blacklynne valley, as you will see the blacklynne river runs through it. i get a few deer down this valley i hae also built duck ponds down there and i get a few duck in the winter. good luck among the turkeys chaps. regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 22, 2013 16:02:01 GMT -5
One buck this morning and one this evening, i let one go it was just too windy for the 260yd shot that would of been needed to drop him this evening, Soon be turkey time over in Indiana and i am looking forward to some stories. regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 23, 2013 4:15:49 GMT -5
23/4/13 I did not see a lot of bucks this morning, three in total and i shot two of them. Going to the optician later so i may start seeing a few more after he takes my money off me for new spectacles, hehehehhe. The bucks this morning were just young things in velvet so i did not take any photographs. regards Billy
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Post by Boilermaker on Apr 23, 2013 6:16:51 GMT -5
Sounds like you're having good success with the cull so far Billy. Nice pictures of the country side over there. What kind of ducks do you usually have in the winters on your ponds?
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 23, 2013 8:43:31 GMT -5
hi there Boilermaker
Mallard and teal, i just shoot it for the oven , after it gets too dark to shoot does the dog and i will go and have a stand with one of the shotguns and get a couple for the oven, i only ever shoot a couple per outing. Ellie the dog likes retrieving them gives her a change and what she likes doing the best. Woodcock i also stand for woodcock at dusk and use either the 410 or last year i used the 28bore, all good fun. hehehehe Just been to the opticians and my wallet is 124 UK pounds sterling lighter, so i should be able to hit something this coming season, hehe regards
Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 24, 2013 4:50:07 GMT -5
24/4/13
Got another buck at night, the weather this morning was awful and i expected to see nothing, but i saw a lot of deer at daybreak in the fields and on the roadside, i shoot what i can on the roadsides to try to stop vehicle accidents, i had the rifle levelled at three of them but never go the shot off for various reasons, one being i am getting slow. Once i got into the forest that was it i never saw another Buck and only two does all morning ,now is that not strange. I tell you now it was one of those mornings where i stood more chance of taking miss world out to dinner than shooting a deer, strange but we all get mornings like that. Hopefully tonight Miss world will be fed, and i can get some Bucks shot, hehehhe Luck has to change regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 25, 2013 7:40:06 GMT -5
25/4/13 Another wet morning but never mind like i told the turkey hunters rain can only go as far as the skin, so i am out there having a go. I came upon a buck eating my trees so i tried to neck shoot him at seventy yards free hand, It never works when it needs to and i missed, but he ran another two hundred and stopped, but i was ready on the sticks and i shot him in the neck as he turned to laugh at me. I am sure Ellie the dog was grinning as well because i missed the first shot, but she still got her biscuit for taking me too it in the long grass here is his picture. this view is across one of my restocks and Scotland is in the background i live right on the border regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 25, 2013 7:41:35 GMT -5
The time is wrong it was around 6am, i will get this camera right eventually, hehhehe
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Post by Boilermaker on Apr 25, 2013 8:16:15 GMT -5
Billy, is it ALWAYS foggy around there?
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 25, 2013 8:36:03 GMT -5
Nearly always a haze in the mornings, but could be the camera making it worse, i will try another one, i have three of them We do get a lot of mist and haze because from high ground we can see the Solway estuary, the haze comes in from the sea, the place is the goose magnet of North England, it is the place were the majority of the barnacle geese population come to. I will try harder, hehehhehe regards Billy
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Post by schoolmaster on Apr 25, 2013 22:58:04 GMT -5
That dog is a priceless hunting companion.
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 26, 2013 4:43:16 GMT -5
26/4/13
I have a story. I went out this morning into a fantastic frosty bright morning, expecting to see bucks everywhere. The first point of call was a restock on the most southern part of my beat, first i saw three deer moving so i glassed them, darn it all were does, i moved around a little further and seen another two deer in tall grass, no antlers were visible so i had to wait , but when they moved i could see a tush on both deer so they were also female. i moved into another area and did not see a deer until i was about to leave then up the logging road i glassed two deer, i sat and watched and yes one had antlers in velvet, so i set off after him, as i got closer i was in a dip so i had to get into dam near bow range before i could actually get a safe rifle shot, as i got to where i thought i should be all i could see was a backside among the willow trees, not good. I had no option but to keep going forward on a wing and a prayer, but as i got close obviously too close because they took off at a rate of knots, three not two of them, but they split two went left and i saw the old doe go right. So i got the sticks ready and now it was a waiting game, which will cross over, the old doe or the buck and other doe. Well the buck appeared first at around 210 yds i levelled onto his boiler room and sent the bullet, he lunged forward and went into the tress like a cat with its tail on fire.
I waited pondering if i had missed there was little sign that i had hit him, we went forward Ellie by my side. i could find no pins or paint(blood or hair) But my little friend just looked and me and went about her business, still i could find nothing. The little dog came back looked at me and said come on stupid follow me, she just kept going and looking over her shoulder to see that i was following, at one point i looked down and there it was as a plain as a pikestaff , a small amount of good red blood, she took me around twenty yards into the thicket sitka trees and there lying dead with a perfect shot was today's buck. Perfect shot, just not a big hole on the exit like i usually get.
That schoolmaster sir is why money nor love could buy my little dog, she is ten years old now so she at least has shot two thousand roe with me probably more. And what did Ellie get out of this, well, a big cuddle, two biscuits and two kidneys, that was the deal. hehehe
I do have a photo of the deer if anyone wants to see it but it is just a spiker in velvet regards Have a good weekend, anyone going for gobblers the best of luck. Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 29, 2013 9:03:10 GMT -5
29/4/13 Only seen 1 buck this morning and he bolted at a very high rate of knots, he stopped way out there to have a last look at us, but he did not know that while he was running i was setting up the rifle and tracking him, i put the cross hairs between his shoulder and the base of his neck at 248yds and i let rip. he dropped to shot, dead as he hit the ground the bullet went into the base of his neck By the time i got my gear ready to move one wonders if you are looking at the right spot, i was pleased i had ellie the dog with me to find him , everywhere looks the same on a restock it is awful. The little spaniel just quartered the wind until she beamed in on his scent in the wind and i just followed her, job done I never saw another buck. See what this evening brings regards Billy
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Post by schall53 on Apr 29, 2013 12:16:13 GMT -5
Keep the posts coming Billy, I really enjoy them all.
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 29, 2013 16:10:11 GMT -5
tonight i went to a deer glade where i have been seeing a doe by herself and i could not understand that she was by herself I got there around 7.30pm and she was out feeding away, so i just sat there for a while, then at one point she looked up into the trees behind her, but i could see nothing. As i was watching her through my binoculars a movement to the right caught my eye i swung the binos round and here is a 6 point buck just ambling into the trees. At 7.55pm the doe followed him into the trees, so now i know next time that there may be a very nice buck hiding close by when i see her out. I then moved onto some high forest ground and came upon another young buck eating my trees, he was not as lucky the bullet hit him just behind the shoulder and he is on his way to the deer larder in the morning. right by my clock on the computer it is five past ten pm and i am up again at 4.30 am, so i had better get into bed. I am pleased you enjoy schall53. regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 30, 2013 4:03:49 GMT -5
Greeting again 30/4/13 I am just back in from this mornings hunt, and i have had a good morning i ended up with three bucks one of those is from the same glade as i saw that sneaky buck last night although i am not convinced it is the same animal I was sure last night that the buck i saw was in clean antler ,the one this morning is still in velvet,. I did go to the optician last week for a test and i have new glassed coming so all is not lost yet, hehehhe, when i eventually get over there i should be able to tell the difference between a turkey a coyote and a whitetail, don't worry, hheheheheh Anyway everything went to plan all deer dropped to shot no dram, so all is well, Ellie is full of kidneys and biscuits, boy is she going to stink when they get through her.
Right i am back home to drop Ellie off get changed and have a cup of tea then i have to go to the larder to put these deer in then off to the office for 1pm to get a new window opening motor put in the works van, if i go out tonight, it will not be far and it will be a wait in my pop up blind, i have two bucks to wait for . It is hard being an established civil servant. lol regards Billy
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Post by schoolmaster on Apr 30, 2013 18:49:28 GMT -5
Always trust your dog.
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