mickymiroku Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 hi all, how,s this, i was standing in a small medow hoping for a pigion or crow or maybe a rabit but it was a compleat wast of time as there was nothing showing and i,m thinking i might as well give up and go home, when out of the corner of my eye i saw a muntjack and it was slowly coming my way, well of course i stood dead still to see what it would do and to my surprize the little fellow just kept on coming. it got to about 25 yards and i thaught surly it wont come any closer, but i was wrong, it stopped at about 12 yards and just looked at me for ages. i dont know how i managed to keep still for so long. then it just turned and slowly walked away. i know a lot of you would have shot it, but i was just happy to watch it go. this happend near Harlow /essex . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 That is so satisfying Micky - and good on ya. :yp: I too have had one come within 30 yards - but I have neither the correct calibre for it nor game licence. And my thing is vermin only. I just stood transfixed watching it's big eyes for signs of fear, I think it new something was near but it had'nt spotted me. Eventually I deliberatly turned my head away to produce some innocent movement for it to respond to and it loped off looking back a couple of times. I could'nt help feeling that in my producing such harmless movement I have somehow reduced it's wariness of man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 A couple of seasons ago, I was walking flank gun on a long, very densely undergrowthed, woodland drive. As I walked down the ride about 30ft in front of the beaters, a roe deer stepped out into the ride, about 12 ft in front of me. I hadn't heard her leave the thicket, she had made no noise at all. We stood looking at each other for a few seconds and then she walked slowly across the ride and disappeared silently into the cover of the woods. I then realised that I had not breathed since she first appeared. A moment I won't forget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
young gun Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 2 years ago i was beating on a small shoot and had been left by the edge of a narrow woodland to stop the birds from running out across the field as they had been known to do, and as i waited for the rest of the beaters to reach me as they worked a small patch of cover crops into the wood so i could start walking along with them i sat down behind a tree, i could then hear something running towards me so i stood up and stepped out from behind the tree and was confronted with a roe deer running straight at me, i must have only been 5 yards from it when it spotted me and turned and headed off to another wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il cacciatore Posted May 21, 2006 Report Share Posted May 21, 2006 This sort of thing had happened to me a few months ago. Armed with an airgun I was walking on an old abandoned road with dense cover on either side. A roe doe came out from one side about 5 meters infront of me, stopped, turned and looked directly at me. Then just carryed on walking. To this day I'm not sure if it had seen me or just didnt care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytie Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 If you ever fish at Barnes lakes near Standlake in Oxfordshire you can find yourself fishing with one watching you out of the hedge. Pretty neat I thought. Ft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatingisbest Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 That sort of thing has happened about 10 times on my shoot, deer (not muntjac) run past us through the beating line the closest they have ever got to me is, well lets say if i put my arm out i could have stroked it as it ran past. What gun were you with anyways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chezney Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 The first time i went beating when i was about 6 i remember a muntjac chasing me around a big oak tree. it didnt seem so small then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickymiroku Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 That sort of thing has happened about 10 times on my shoot, deer (not muntjac) run past us through the beating line the closest they have ever got to me is, well lets say if i put my arm out i could have stroked it as it ran past. What gun were you with anyways? the only one i got, a 12 bore miroku 7,000 game 28 inch barrels, multi choke, 1/4 and 1/2. If you ever fish at Barnes lakes near Standlake in Oxfordshire you can find yourself fishing with one watching you out of the hedge. Pretty neat I thought. Ft hey flytie, could be they were checking out youre techneek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 the only one i got, a 12 bore miroku 7,000 game 28 inch barrels, multi choke, 1/4 and 1/2. So who's are all those in your avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickymiroku Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 the only one i got, a 12 bore miroku 7,000 game 28 inch barrels, multi choke, 1/4 and 1/2. So who's are all those in your avatar? dont know, the picture just looked good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 the only one i got, a 12 bore miroku 7,000 game 28 inch barrels, multi choke, 1/4 and 1/2. So who's are all those in your avatar? dont know, the picture just looked good. micky i thought you was going to give my mate lanber a run for his money with all them guns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJ2 Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 Many times I've had deer, roes and munties' charge past me, usually while beating. The one occasion I hope I never forget is when I was laying down in a meadow, 22 rimmie on the bipod, waiting for rabbits to pop out of the warren about forty yards away. I became aware of something approaching from behind, and a fully grown badger ambled past, literally ten feet away, and trotted up to the warren. He(?) spent a good five minutes snuffling around and eventually trotted off down the hedge. Obviously the wind was in my favour, or he was used to the presence of humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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