With time of an essence this Rut particularly, i was able toget out this morning really early ( 4am) to get up on the ridges in the ute an listen to what was goin on around the area, i rolled the swag out at 430 to get a few hours (1.5) sleep before light..
i heard several grunting bucks in the night, on and off, an once light i got up an went down the track to drop into the back of farm land, hunting the public land off the ridges.
lots of little gulleys, always good hunting, wind is the problem, it gets ya!
anyway , a few run ins last two weeks with a dark buck in this area, i had since gone for a hunting trip along the Coast of Victoria for another Species, unsuccesfully mind you.
so back to the local patch an it seems to be peak rut, you beauty...
I walked around an then walked up into this buck grunting with some Does in the gulley head pictured, i didnt play the best play on him but got up to 50m of him and as he was onto me i got a shot off on him broadside and he took off for a short dash and came running back down the hill, i was about to send another when i noticed he was not quite well.
piled up infront of me near where he was shot, Not a huge deer, Not totally thrilled on killing him but the Cape will be mounted as a practise piece and also to add to the local fallow colour phases we have here!
i wont shoot another unless its record book stuff, id prefer to film them now the itch has been scratched i think... its more rewarding for me but there is some pressure to shoot one for weird reasons i cant explain but im trying to work out.... social media influence perhaps, which is ironic..
anywho, enjoy some photos.
7mm-08 ,162SST
i do love these little ones alot more in a nice way, than the big Sambars, but i love hunting the Sambars more
anywho!
i heard several grunting bucks in the night, on and off, an once light i got up an went down the track to drop into the back of farm land, hunting the public land off the ridges.
lots of little gulleys, always good hunting, wind is the problem, it gets ya!
anyway , a few run ins last two weeks with a dark buck in this area, i had since gone for a hunting trip along the Coast of Victoria for another Species, unsuccesfully mind you.
so back to the local patch an it seems to be peak rut, you beauty...
I walked around an then walked up into this buck grunting with some Does in the gulley head pictured, i didnt play the best play on him but got up to 50m of him and as he was onto me i got a shot off on him broadside and he took off for a short dash and came running back down the hill, i was about to send another when i noticed he was not quite well.
piled up infront of me near where he was shot, Not a huge deer, Not totally thrilled on killing him but the Cape will be mounted as a practise piece and also to add to the local fallow colour phases we have here!
i wont shoot another unless its record book stuff, id prefer to film them now the itch has been scratched i think... its more rewarding for me but there is some pressure to shoot one for weird reasons i cant explain but im trying to work out.... social media influence perhaps, which is ironic..
anywho, enjoy some photos.
7mm-08 ,162SST
i do love these little ones alot more in a nice way, than the big Sambars, but i love hunting the Sambars more
anywho!
