First for me.

[oowee]

Out walking the dog on Friday and dropping a few pheasant's I spotted some unusually large slots. Back later I was faced with a group of large red deer. I dropped a medium sized stag. There were much bigger options, but there was just me and a CRV. 

That was the easy bit. So different from the roe I normally shoot. The animal must be 100kg +, had hair like steel wool, blunted my knives, smells like a horse, gas in the belly 🐽. I then spent the next two hours trying to get it into my car, it very nearly killed me. It's too big for me to process so it's gone to a local butcher.

Saturday was spent cleaning out the car. 

[marsh man]

Yesterday on the very last drive of the day the light was already fading , a young lad was standing with his dad and took a shot at possibly the last bird of the day , I had my back to this wood and I could see the bird was hit , it went down in the wood just behind me and I sent my dog and the next picker up came with his two Spaniel's to help out as it is full of nettles and brambles with water in the middle , I could see the dogs working in the swampy bit in the middle , out of nowhere this Red Deer came charging through and went straight through where the dogs were , for a minute or so we couldn't see a dog and then the picker up said your ole dog have got the Pheasant and he wasn't sure if his dogs were injured or not , no worries as very soon all three dogs were back and all waging there tails as if nothing had happened , but could easily have ended with a different outcome  

[London Best]

Anybody else can shoot the Reds for me, thank you.  
I have two hernias from trying to lift Fallow bucks into the Land Rover. 
Lifting Reds is a job for a Scotsman! 
Your Red stag would stink because it has just finished the rut. 
I like Muntjac now, one under each arm.

[oowee]

1 hour ago, London Best said:

Anybody else can shoot the Reds for me, thank you.  
I have two hernias from trying to lift Fallow bucks into the Land Rover. 
Lifting Reds is a job for a Scotsman! 
Your Red stag would stink because it has just finished the rut. 
I like Muntjac now, one under each arm.

Give me Roe any day easy to move, easy to skin. I may change my mind when I pick up meat Monday 😁

[scolopax]

Saves you right for shooting it

[Scully]

There are Reds in the S.Lakes, but none have got to where we are in the North, but I doubt I’d have shot one anyhow. 
Have even stopped shooting Roe now, which are plentiful around here; far too easy to shoot and a chore to process because no one wants them. 
Funnily enough our old game dealer from way back got in touch shortly after I gave up my CF rifle, asking if we could get him some, so who knows come next renewal? 

[oowee]

On 18/11/2024 at 17:01, Scully said:

There are Reds in the S.Lakes, but none have got to where we are in the North, but I doubt I’d have shot one anyhow. 
Have even stopped shooting Roe now, which are plentiful around here; far too easy to shoot and a chore to process because no one wants them. 
Funnily enough our old game dealer from way back got in touch shortly after I gave up my CF rifle, asking if we could get him some, so who knows come next renewal? 

Do you not eat them yourself? 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

On 17/11/2024 at 20:58, London Best said:

Anybody else can shoot the Reds for me, thank you.  
I have two hernias from trying to lift Fallow bucks into the Land Rover. 
Lifting Reds is a job for a Scotsman! 
Your Red stag would stink because it has just finished the rut. 
I like Muntjac now, one under each arm.

Been there, done that. Great fun.  

[Scully]

16 minutes ago, oowee said:

Do you not eat them yourself? 

No. I don’t have the facility to freeze that much meat really. I used to give it away, but the processing up at mates farm ate into my day and I didn’t want to shoot them and not use the meat, so we clad a lot of saplings and ring fenced most pheasant feeders. 
I was fed up with bouncing around in a draughty old Landrover at stupid o'clock also, so sold my CF. 
There was a time all I wanted was a CF rifle, but I don’t miss it if I’m honest. 
If I did get another it would be a Ruger No 1, but I digress. 

[ditchman]

On 17/11/2024 at 20:58, London Best said:

Anybody else can shoot the Reds for me, thank you.  
I have two hernias from trying to lift Fallow bucks into the Land Rover. 
Lifting Reds is a job for a Scotsman! 
Your Red stag would stink because it has just finished the rut. 
I like Muntjac now, one under each arm.

Muntjac taste better..

[TIGHTCHOKE]

6 minutes ago, ditchman said:

Muntjac taste better..

They do seem to......................................

[Dougy]

Ive seen both Roe and Muntjac get flushed from a wood when dogs have gone in to retrieve shot birds, but no Reds, due to not many around these parts. Having dragged a few Fallow and only a few i am quite happy sticking to Muntjac. 

I have been very very close to a nice Red Stag running full gallop at me, when your so close to be able to see the glint in its eyes and its looking into yours too , its close. There's a couple on here that may remember it, shouting from close by that i dont shoot it , i dont think i could have afforded that fee, likely i'd be taken into the woods and paid in kind by a few Croatia'n beaters. 

[oowee]

2 minutes ago, Dougy said:

Ive seen both Roe and Muntjac get flushed from a wood when dogs have gone in to retrieve shot birds, but no Reds, due to not many around these parts. Having dragged a few Fallow and only a few i am quite happy sticking to Muntjac. 

I have been very very close to a nice Red Stag running full gallop at me, when your so close to be able to see the glint in its eyes and its looking into yours too , its close. There's a couple on here that may remember it, shouting from close by that i dont shoot it , i dont think i could have afforded that fee, likely i'd be taken into the woods and paid in kind by a few Croatia'n beaters. 

Awesome, that's the sort of thing that stays with you forever. We had a chap last year that shot a warthog heading towards him at speed on a guinea foul drive. That was a sight to see.

There are supposed to be no Reds here but as if by magic 

[B686]

Had these out the back of where I live loads about here last couple of years.