devon deer
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Got back last Thursday, adjusted to the time difference, completed all the jobs (well most of them) my wife said needed doing and so i decided i would get up this morning to try for a deer, or two.
So the alarm went off this morning and i instantly realised it was later then i thought, jumped in the truck and drove 10 miles to a farm i hunt on.
I walked up a hill to the field entrance barely 100 yards from my truck, and the damned wood pigeons roosting in the trees exploded into life thrashing through the branches and announcing my arrival to every living breathing animal in the countryside!
I let it settle and started off again, more damned pigeons!
Waited again then slowly started to glass the field, just in time to see a fallow doe with her young buck fawn trotting off towards the timber.
But, she stopped to look back to see what was the cause of the disturbance, that was her mistake, from previous experience i knew she was 200 yards away, raised the gun onto the sticks and sent my Bozeman bought bullet on its way, she dropped where she stood, the fawn disappeared, so i waited and out it came again to see what had happened, result was two deer grassed within 10 minutes of arrival and i could even drive my truck to collect them.
The fawn has been butchered and will be eaten this week, the doe is in the chiller, i will deliver it to the game dealer on Wednesday.
Here is a video i did on my phone, sorry no commentary, i forgot!
Basically it's on the edge of a place called Dartmoor within my county of Devon in the South West of England.
Here are the co-ordinates 50°37'43.01"N 3°46'33.97"W
Cheers
Richard
So the alarm went off this morning and i instantly realised it was later then i thought, jumped in the truck and drove 10 miles to a farm i hunt on.
I walked up a hill to the field entrance barely 100 yards from my truck, and the damned wood pigeons roosting in the trees exploded into life thrashing through the branches and announcing my arrival to every living breathing animal in the countryside!
I let it settle and started off again, more damned pigeons!
Waited again then slowly started to glass the field, just in time to see a fallow doe with her young buck fawn trotting off towards the timber.
But, she stopped to look back to see what was the cause of the disturbance, that was her mistake, from previous experience i knew she was 200 yards away, raised the gun onto the sticks and sent my Bozeman bought bullet on its way, she dropped where she stood, the fawn disappeared, so i waited and out it came again to see what had happened, result was two deer grassed within 10 minutes of arrival and i could even drive my truck to collect them.
The fawn has been butchered and will be eaten this week, the doe is in the chiller, i will deliver it to the game dealer on Wednesday.
Here is a video i did on my phone, sorry no commentary, i forgot!
Basically it's on the edge of a place called Dartmoor within my county of Devon in the South West of England.
Here are the co-ordinates 50°37'43.01"N 3°46'33.97"W
Cheers
Richard
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