rtaylor Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 So the story goes I went out stalking the other night with the hope of bagging a Roe Buck. I stalked up the edge of a wood and managed to spy a fox down the far corner of the wood. So I backtracked and came through the wood to try and get onto it on the same side of the wood. By the time I'd got through Charlie had disappeared but I spotted a Buck on the other side of the valley, slowly working his way up the field. I stalked down the edge of the wood to get onto him better but by the time I'd go there he'd moved up the field some more. Not wanting to take too long a shot, and that I enjoy the stalking as much as the shooting I decided to stalk back through the wood, across the valley and up the other side to get into the gateway to the field he was in. After managing that, I had myself lined up on a fence post to take the shot. Pulled the trigger and watched him drop. I reloaded and checked him for a few seconds through the scope. Nothing happened so I started to climb over the gate when I looked up to see him standing, I wish I was able to take a picture, he looked very regal and proud, similar to those picture of a big red stag. I quickly got back on the post and took another shot, again simple boiler room shot. He did a bit of a backflip, ran for about 50 meters and then dropped. I waited a bit longer this time, but with no more movement I set off to have a look. When I got to him, I got on with gralloching him out that done I decided to just walk back to the car and then drive back to pick the carcass up rather than dragging it across the bog. When I got back to the field I dumped it in the boot and set off driving out of the field. About 50 meters back up the field there was lying a dead roe buck. I couldn't believe it, I got out of the car and sure enough it was still warm. Somehow, despite looking at it from 3 different angles/ranges I'd completely overlooked another buck which must have been lying down in the same field, near where the other one was. After shooting and killing the first one, the other one had stood up and I'd shot that as well. I doubt that will happen again but it was a pretty pleasant surprise. Thanks for reading, apologies for it being a bit long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose man Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Sometimes it never goes to plan but works out better ..good result . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 An interesting read. Those two bucks appear to be very different in their conditioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtaylor Posted May 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Yeah they are the smaller one (bottom one in the second picture) was in pretty poor condition. Hair loss, a few ticks on it and considerably lighter. But it still tastes good so I'm not complaining. There seems to be an awful lot of deer round here at the moment, so that might have something to do with it. I'd like to get out and bag a few more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshMike Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Nice couple of bucks, well done mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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