Hey guys. very interesting Arvo yesterday!
heres a yarn
I couldn't believe it!
I had been out over the weekend for 3 days with a forum member and we had a reasonably unlucky trot and more leasure than hard out hunting, none the less we had shots on deer and ended up rolling one last morning.
it was the 3rd calf in as many weeks, I arnt sure what was going on there.
the carry out was easy enough though, headed back to camp for the ute and come up on a ridge track
fast forward to this afternoon.
I headed out around 4 to a property to retrieve a trail camera, it was warm so I hung around on FB in the ute for a good while, hoping to just stalk in later and grab it.
I took off an decided I would contour around the fringe rocky outcrop and end up on the other side of the lush open gulley feeding toward the fenceline.
a steady swirly breeze not far from changing to a dropping cool breeze, so I got into a reasonable spot to view the bushline some 100m away up hill. I could see enough funnelling points onto the opposing face from a bushy ridgeline. in the past I have passed up a 29 inch model for unforseen reasons (mates property).
that was never to happen again.
I sat for a long while an had 2 smokes in the mean time, texting and glassing and most of all listening to a tell tale sign.
it was about half hour before dark an the wombats came out, feeding cruising. I noted no roos which ws odd for this area but kept on high alert.
10 minutes before dark and I spy a solid shape up on the ridgeline just out of the bushline, a Spiker Sambar!
I twist the burris onto 9x and settle the rifle on a fallen branch, the deer is facing me looking around , I settle the X hairs on the chest and Send a 150gr Accubond. it hits home and the deer dances an heads downhill mortally hit, almost to the point you put another in it to finish it, but a hind walks up out of a group of gums and stops , Boom the Tikka speaks again and she is instantly lifted off her feet!
while the spikey gets to the gulley floor some 40m from me , I spot movement and a Sambar Stag is watching the Spikey unsure of whats going on, so I quickly Up him and miss him... Typicall!!!
in truth I thought I hit him, so I grabbed 2 shells out of my pack in a little pouch for easy access, I slip 2 in and notice movement again, holy geezus its the Stag again, so I sort it out pretty quickly and then silence.
Until it let out its final moans, an You coulda swore there was a Moose in the scrub near by!
So that was my Arvo and one I wont ever forget.
I never heard the animals move down, they were 50m from the bushline in a tree'd gulley gut, only did I notice the one in the open an shoot it, did I realise!
some photos from the events
oh BTW, some TC pics
Happy days fellas!!!
cheers
WL
heres a yarn
I couldn't believe it!
I had been out over the weekend for 3 days with a forum member and we had a reasonably unlucky trot and more leasure than hard out hunting, none the less we had shots on deer and ended up rolling one last morning.
it was the 3rd calf in as many weeks, I arnt sure what was going on there.
the carry out was easy enough though, headed back to camp for the ute and come up on a ridge track
fast forward to this afternoon.
I headed out around 4 to a property to retrieve a trail camera, it was warm so I hung around on FB in the ute for a good while, hoping to just stalk in later and grab it.
I took off an decided I would contour around the fringe rocky outcrop and end up on the other side of the lush open gulley feeding toward the fenceline.
a steady swirly breeze not far from changing to a dropping cool breeze, so I got into a reasonable spot to view the bushline some 100m away up hill. I could see enough funnelling points onto the opposing face from a bushy ridgeline. in the past I have passed up a 29 inch model for unforseen reasons (mates property).
that was never to happen again.
I sat for a long while an had 2 smokes in the mean time, texting and glassing and most of all listening to a tell tale sign.
it was about half hour before dark an the wombats came out, feeding cruising. I noted no roos which ws odd for this area but kept on high alert.
10 minutes before dark and I spy a solid shape up on the ridgeline just out of the bushline, a Spiker Sambar!
I twist the burris onto 9x and settle the rifle on a fallen branch, the deer is facing me looking around , I settle the X hairs on the chest and Send a 150gr Accubond. it hits home and the deer dances an heads downhill mortally hit, almost to the point you put another in it to finish it, but a hind walks up out of a group of gums and stops , Boom the Tikka speaks again and she is instantly lifted off her feet!
while the spikey gets to the gulley floor some 40m from me , I spot movement and a Sambar Stag is watching the Spikey unsure of whats going on, so I quickly Up him and miss him... Typicall!!!
in truth I thought I hit him, so I grabbed 2 shells out of my pack in a little pouch for easy access, I slip 2 in and notice movement again, holy geezus its the Stag again, so I sort it out pretty quickly and then silence.
Until it let out its final moans, an You coulda swore there was a Moose in the scrub near by!
So that was my Arvo and one I wont ever forget.
I never heard the animals move down, they were 50m from the bushline in a tree'd gulley gut, only did I notice the one in the open an shoot it, did I realise!
some photos from the events
oh BTW, some TC pics
Happy days fellas!!!
cheers
WL
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