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Waidmannsheil

We had some snow this weekend and thought it was a good time to check our baiting sites for wild boar. Started recently to feed with carp pellets and they seem to like it. Found no fresh traces of them in the snow but tried it anyway. In first daylight I saw a fox coming to the baiting site & he started to dig up the pellets, very nice to see how he could located the pellets through the snow. Waited for a clean shot, and the .243 RWS 6,2 gr took him out, distance 90m. Waited another 2 hours, saw a few roe, but no more fox our boar. Tried later that evening on another baiting area and managed to bag another fox, distance only 25m. Had a nice but cold outing!

Happy Newyear & good shooting to everybody on PW, I'm not posting a lot for some time, but follow the topics almost every day!

Waidmannsheil!!

@Holland&Holland He has a lot of experience on wild boar, last month he had a sow in front of the highseat with a lot of piglets and the ones of the former year, waited untill one of them was broadside and shot it, 40kg empty, he still does not understand how he was so wrong in the weight. Monday we are going again as the roebuck season starts at 01/08, hopefully with some more boar!

Me, cleaning the boar, some dirty job, but we love it!

a close up of the nice trophy

A week ago I went with a hunting mate to our hunting field against the German border. The wild boars were frequently visiting our woods and we would give it a try. As the wild boar is most active at night, we went to the highseat one hour before daylight, and hopefully we saw some before they went to the thick cover. I chose a highseat near some water, where already a few boars were shot, my mate took a highseat in the wood, with a lane where you can see a 150 yards. At 05:10 in first daylight 2 boars came out on this lane, my mate thought they were around 50 kg, and estimated them a year old. he took a shot on the one that was most close to him. I heared the shot and the impact of the bullet, tried to reach him on the phone, without succes. After one hour he came to my highseat and asked for help, as he couldn't find the boar. We went to the place where the boars were standing and there was a lot of blood, which you could follow fore some 10 yards, than not one drop was found anymore! We searched some more in cirkels but couldn't find any trace. We decided to try to find somebody with a dog, specially trained for this. We managed this, 4 hours later! But it was worth waiting, the dog took immediathly the right track and managed to find the boar in less than one minute, it managed to go arround 100 yards with a liver shot (not so good). The suprise was big, instead of a 50kg wild boar, there was a huge male boar, more than 100kg!! after a good laugh with my mates knowledge of wild boar sizes we cleaned the boar and went for a good drink, a beautifull day to remember!

Wasn't hurt myself, but: At an evening we were hunting some ducks near a river, my car was parked in the middle of nowhere. After shooting some ducks and getting darker we decided to stop and went back for the car. On our way I heared a duck coming from behind on a good hight, my shooting partner said it was to high. I was convinsed I could hit it and that was what I did! The wounded duck came lower and lower to hit the front window of my car perfectly. Costs 350£!!

Ik kan niet anders dan de familie te condoleren met dit droevige verlies. Gedurende de laatste jaren heb ik steeds de postings van Konings gevolgd, en heb er veel plezier aan beleefd. Sterkte aan de familie.

Nice pics, good shooting

Nice, I love those long range shots for fox.

We don't eat it, all the fish there must be put back in the water. There are 12 of them in the pound, the owner buys each year arround 2000kg of living small fish just to feed the catfish & pikes.

Went last week to the Ardennes to help some friends with builing high seats. Building the high seats was hard work but fun. Found the time for a morning & evening stalk. Started in the morning at 05:00, went on foot and while checking the first open space i noticed a fox chasing for mice. Had all the time of the world as I had good wind and the fox was always facing the other direction. Putted myself down in the gras, opened the bipod and searched the fox in the riflescope. distance was 140m. Put the croshair on his chest and pulled the trigger. Only saw a big flame coming out of the barrel as it was still a bit dark. Waited for a few moments and went to search for the fox. Couldn't find it, and as I didn't heared the impact of the bullet I thought I missed the fox. Decided to check the rifle later that day. Went on with my stalk and saw a few roe but no foxes anymore. So a few hours later I checked the rifle on the same distance, 140m. Fired 3 bullets and they were perfect, groupement of 3cm, right on the spot. So nothing wrong with the rifle, it must be my fault I missed the fox. During daytime we worked on the highseats. So at evening i went again for some stalking, and after an hour I noticed a young fox on freshly mowed gras. Distance 180m, didn't try to get closer as I was in the edge of the wood, placed myself good and took the shot. The fox dropped on the spot. After this I started to think again of the fox I missed that morning. It was almost impossible. So I decided to check again the field, as I was busy going up and down the field a friend passed there and decided to help me with searching. And yes, I found the fox, but 60m away from where I thought I shot him. Perfect shot, so I think I was bad orientated that morning. Anyway, another 2 are gone. Picture 1 is the young dog fox Picture 2 is the dog fox I couldn't find.

Went fishing this morning on a private water, owned by a good friend. Normally i go for carp there, but last week he lost 3 big carps (19.1, 19.5 & 20.2kg). Untill he knows the reason we are not allowed to fish for them. So I fished a bit for smaller fish & had some good action al day. As I know there is catfish in the pound I asked him if I could give it a try. It was no problem and I changed a rod from boilie into live bait. As bait I used a big roach of 35cm, hooked it through the back and let it swim in the middle of the water. After an hour we noticed the panic of the fish and saw him taken by a huge fish. I waited 20 seconds and placed the hook. After a drill of 35 minutes he was ready for the net, a nice catfish of 153 cm and 26 kgs. My biggest catch ever. Had another on for a few minutes but lost it. Will try again next month!