Muntjac cull

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I had the opportunity last friday to cull Muntjac on an estate in Buckinghamshire, three friends had been there a fortnight earlier and shot eight but I couldnt make it due to work.

The morning started off fresh and misty, I had only walked a hundred yards down the forest track when a buck trotted across roughly 60yds infront of me, I barked to get him to stop just long enough to get a successful shot into the engine room, as I grallocked the little fella I looked up to see another munty staring at me from twenty yards away. This one wasnt going to hang around for the same and in a split second was racing off through the undergrowth.

For the rest of the morning all I saw were wood ants, the sun was out and it was getting warm, its amazing how Muntys just vanish in the day. Eventually I bumped a pregnant doe out of a pile of dead bracken, she ran 60yds and stopped for a look at me, before I had the rifle on the sticks she was off again down a slight valley. I took a chance on predicting were she was going and got lucky, the shot was very safe but she was at quite a tight angle facing away from me. I decided to put the shot behind her shoulder and she dropped to the ground stone dead.

As the light started to fade the Muntys seemed to be everywhere, everywhere thats not a safe shot that is. Finally one did run straight towards me, I think it was startled by the clatter of a roosting pheasant, only one problem, it was stood just behing the tree that I was leaning on. After what seem forever it slowly ambled off,providing a perfect heart shot at around 40yds.

It was a very enjoyable day with three muntys in the bag, my mates had shot five between em and the total tally for the two days of culling between four of us was 16

[Dunkield]

Well done.

 

I was shooting with Stealth Stalker and we had one looking at us while he was gralloching the first one, as there were 2 of us I was able to load up and drop that one as well.

Other than that I still maintain they are harder to stalk than say roe, as they just hang about for the stalker to decide what he is going to do, they are off...

 

There seem to be some huge bucks about at the mement, have you seen any of those on this patch?

[magnum]

I had the opportunity last friday to cull Muntjac on an estate in Buckinghamshire, three friends had been there a fortnight earlier and shot eight but I couldnt make it due to work.

The morning started off fresh and misty, I had only walked a hundred yards down the forest track when a buck trotted across roughly 60yds infront of me, I barked to get him to stop just long enough to get a successful shot into the engine room, as I grallocked the little fella I looked up to see another munty staring at me from twenty yards away. This one wasnt going to hang around for the same and in a split second was racing off through the undergrowth.

For the rest of the morning all I saw were wood ants, the sun was out and it was getting warm, its amazing how Muntys just vanish in the day. Eventually I bumped a pregnant doe out of a pile of dead bracken, she ran 60yds and stopped for a look at me, before I had the rifle on the sticks she was off again down a slight valley. I took a chance on predicting were she was going and got lucky, the shot was very safe but she was at quite a tight angle facing away from me. I decided to put the shot behind her shoulder and she dropped to the ground stone dead.

As the light started to fade the Muntys seemed to be everywhere, everywhere thats not a safe shot that is. Finally one did run straight towards me, I think it was startled by the clatter of a roosting pheasant, only one problem, it was stood just behing the tree that I was leaning on. After what seem forever it slowly ambled off,providing a perfect heart shot at around 40yds.

It was a very enjoyable day with three muntys in the bag, my mates had shot five between em and the total tally for the two days of culling between four of us was 16

nice to see you got among them 16 in 2 day,s they must be alot on the ground (not like your 3 up in the tree ) sorry can,t help myself with that one keep it up mate IAN

[Redgum]

Well done.

 

I was shooting with Stealth Stalker and we had one looking at us while he was gralloching the first one, as there were 2 of us I was able to load up and drop that one as well.

Other than that I still maintain they are harder to stalk than say roe, as they just hang about for the stalker to decide what he is going to do, they are off...

 

There seem to be some huge bucks about at the mement, have you seen any of those on this patch?

 

Muntjac are certainly not the easiest of deer to stalk, generally I have had more luck from a highseat but this particular estate has a real good head of them. I have aquired a portable highseat from the Deer initative so next time I go down I will use that. Two of the bucks were very nice indeed, not the ones I shot though.

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nice to see you got among them 16 in 2 day,s they must be alot on the ground (not like your 3 up in the tree ) sorry can,t help myself with that one keep it up mate IAN

Its a pity I didnt get a photo of all eight but you know how stalking goes, the camera's not the first thing you reach for . There's a good head of munties there alright, the estate manager reckons that when they do a drive more munties flush out than pheasants. .