sako751sg Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Cracking day yesterday weatherwise,so knocked work on the head at twelve and went home for the dog and rifle.Headed out to the same wood as last week where i knew there were still at least 4 bucks.Got there about 2ish,and headed over to the valley.The marching farm was sowing parks that go right down to the valley,so only stayed for an hour,and then decided to try somewhere else.Only saw a doe,but when i got back to the jeep,i saw 2 bucks and a doe,about 80 yards away and checked them through the scope.Both were in velvet,and looked shortish,so i set up the sticks and scoped on to the easier of the two,and he droped on the spot.The other one moved and gave a clear shot,and he also dropped straight away.When i went up to the first one,i was quite dissapointed to have shot it in velvet,as its a 7 pointer with very big pearling and would have looked ok clean.I was gutted when i saw the 2nd,as the mass of pearling and coronets is something i have never saw before.He is only a 4 pointer but is very unique.Both weigh 14kg lardered,and im pretty sure they are from the same calving.The area they were at,is where i had a huge 10 pointer last year,so possibly a food source leading to abnormal antler growth is in abundance or maybe the old bucks genes.For young beasts,the heads in future years could have been very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 very good shooting sako are there any clean buck with you or are most still in velvet looks like they would of been nice heads if they were clean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan the gun Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 nice one mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Cheers.Most still in velvet fella,only saw 3 clean out of approx 15 ive seen since the start.Would have been cracking heads,not medals but very unique.They are both stripped now and boiled,but it would have been nice to see them clean.Also still growing as the points are rounded and the velvet wasnt near ready to clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz2381 Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Nice Bucks mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Cheers.Most still in velvet fella,only saw 3 clean out of approx 15 ive seen since the start.Would have been cracking heads,not medals but very unique.They are both stripped now and boiled,but it would have been nice to see them clean.Also still growing as the points are rounded and the velvet wasnt near ready to clean.yeh most for the roe here are clean but a few still in velvet shot 3 one with verminator69 in velvet one today clean and one last week clean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 yeh most for the roe here are clean but a few still in velvet shot 3 one with verminator69 in velvet one today clean and one last week clean Hows your body weights?All but one has been quite lean for the body size,and the winter here had definetely taken a lot out of them.Id like to leave them to clean,but in some places they have to be culled as soon as.Four of the five have been the same 100ish acre wood,and it took me years to get on and only after they had done plenty of damage.I watched two yesterday morning hammering the larch,but there was no way of getting into them.Its a matter of time,but a buck can do a lot of scraping in a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron airgunner Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 nice shooting!! beautiful velvet on those bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Nice shooting mate. Great write up and photos as always. Like you say it is a great shame that they are still in velvet but what can you do at this time of the year. Keep it up mate, it's always a pleasure to read about your shooting "exploits"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verminator69 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Nice one fella like 2 pees in a pod. Good pics as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A bolt 22.250 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Nice bucks those mate well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guss109 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Nice shooting dave. Definetly more fun than working. Are you seeing many ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Nice shooting dave. Definetly more fun than working. Are you seeing many ? Cheers all. Seeing a few,but nothing much clean.This weather should take them out a bit better hopefully.If you are free next weekend,maybe Friday,let me know and ill take you out to try for one or two,weather permitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guss109 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Should be free on the weekend as il just rearange a job. Working all week now and dont get done till half five but could drive up after work if its still light enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Ill be finished at 1ish on friday,and prob out about 4ish.Dont worry if thats no use,will be out Sat and Sun probably so then might suit you better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guss109 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Spot on cheers. Just started a new job so i cant slope of early yet. and a torry holiday wouldnt go down well Is it 55grn you have to use for them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Hows your body weights?All but one has been quite lean for the body size,and the winter here had definetely taken a lot out of them.Id like to leave them to clean,but in some places they have to be culled as soon as.Four of the five have been the same 100ish acre wood,and it took me years to get on and only after they had done plenty of damage.I watched two yesterday morning hammering the larch,but there was no way of getting into them.Its a matter of time,but a buck can do a lot of scraping in a week.yeh we get a bit of tree damage to first buck 44lb second 30lb third 38lb so noy to bad for weight youl get th 2 hammering the larch sooner or later they will slip up good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Where's the young lad today ? He would have been chuffed to see you get those ! Are you going to leave the velvet on or have a look at whats underneath ?? It would be interesting to see whats under there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Spot on cheers. Just started a new job so i cant slope of early yet. and a torry holiday wouldnt go down well Is it 55grn you have to use for them? Will pm later in week and see when suits you.75 grain for everything with the .243,obviously apart from the red. Where's the young lad today ? He would have been chuffed to see you get those !Are you going to leave the velvet on or have a look at whats underneath ?? It would be interesting to see whats under there He was away at a football practice thing run by Aberdeen Football Club.Needless to say he comes back a worse player than when he went. I have them both bleaching the now,and will post a couple of pics later in week.The velvet was nay near ready to come off,so i will bleach the antlers too and hopefully the blood stain from removing the velvet with come off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Sako, when you get a moment can you please post the 'after' pictures of these heads? I am interested to know what they look like when the velvet is off - thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Sako, when you get a moment can you please post the 'after' pictures of these heads?I am interested to know what they look like when the velvet is off - thanks Will take one when they are out the bleach too fella.This is them clean but bleaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wboulter Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 a couple of nice bucks there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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