groach1234 Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Well after a lot of trying i finally got lucky not he bucks on saturday. it was my 7th or 8th outing at home and having seen plenty of bucks and had one in the cross hairs that twigged me at the last second and a lot of barking i woke up and thought that i was going to succeed that morning. I hoped so anyway to make it worth getting up after 2 and a half hours sleep. So i got all my gear together and set off to the part of the farm that i'd seen a few bucks and one big boy recently and set up to wait and see what showed. This was the best place to start with the wind doing what it was that morning. After a while i could hear a bit of barking however it was coming for the opposite way to the wind so i knew he it wasn't barking at me so i sat tight and watched through the binos. It was him, the big boy i had been after and watched for 20 mins the wrong side of a ditch placing him next door by about 4 yards but he was coming my way and i thought he may be able to make out my shape and was coming for a closer investigation. He got to within around 25 yards and stopped, looked, sniffed and walked back down the bank having not presented a very safe shot for me so i switched around carefully to get an angle that would work if he carried on the way i thought he was. There he and he must has noticed my movement and stopped looking right at me broadside on so i raised the cross hairs and squeezed the trigger and the shot felt like it struck where it should but with his last once of strength he managed to hop the ditch he was by and collapsed instantly with legs twitching. I waited and watched just to make sure he had bled out and whilst doing this watched my first ever wild otter run across 50 yards back from him Anyway 5 mins or so passed and i went down to get him, crossed the ditch alright on the way over but not wanting to gralloch him near to a foot path i put him in the roe sack to take him to the other side of the ditch to gralloch there. This did not go so well because with his ungralloched weight on my back combined with my own although the water was shallow the sand in the bottom of the ditch was not so I sank in, deeper than the top of the welly and just made it to the other side of the ditch without going a over t but with very wet legs. Anyway i gralloched him and got him to the farm shop where the big boy weighed in at 48.5lbs so a heck of a beast and he has a good head as well. He has been cleaned and bleached soaking wet weight was 625g, a few hours post bleach 605g and he spent a night sat atop the aga and dropped down to 559g after 14 hours of intense drying. He hasn't lost a single gram since them in around 16 hours so i think he's stabled off so should make a decent medal. George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ91 Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 That's a cracker, we have a few nice bucks around this season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groach1234 Posted April 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 CHeers mate, i have seen some of last years kids/fawns coming through with very strong heads this year. George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted April 13, 2012 Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 Lovely Buck,George!Well done mate.i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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