glogin Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 (edited) I went back home for xmas and new year holiday. With my father in law we went deer stalking. First 2 outing were not successful. Following evening, while walking in the forest we managed to get closer to a group of reds. They were very wary and I had to take quite a long shot. I shot at a red hind but we had problems to find it. I thought I had missed but my father in law was not convinced... We gave up looking after her after 2 hours. Then we drove to different place and I managed to shoot a roe doe. It dropped instantly. The same day we also got closer to another group of reds and I selected a small child. It dropped after a few meters. Following morning we were at the same place where I missed the hind. First sign that something was wrong was that we met a deer exactly where I shot the day before. Even worse... we spotted a few ravens. We looked around the place again... and there it was. The hind changed direction and dropped at the place we did not check. The bullet hit a liver but also touched a stomach and its content blocked an entry wound and that is why we did not find any drop of blood. I gralloched it and the meat was still ok due to low temperature. The game dealer took it with no problem. Ravens did not make any damage to the carcass except from eating one of deer's eyes... Following evening we went looking for a fallow deer but surprisingly we met boars. One of five we met dropped after a heart shot 40 meters away. Small, about 20kg male. Following morning we finally found fallows. From a group of two hinds and two children I took one male child. During following few days the weather changed dramatically. It started snowing and temperature fell below -12 degrees Celsius. We went a couple of times to the forest to find some more boars but unsuccessfully. We found fresh wolfs' marks on the snow. I guess they were after boars as well. When the temperature fell below -20 degrees we gave up stalking but the forest in snow looked great. Edited January 6, 2009 by glogin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREENGRASS Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Some nice pictures there Glogin. Thanks for posting. Regards GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDFrain Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Very nice thats the way to spend a christmas and new year could'nt ask for more. john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenhunter Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Superb! You came back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glogin Posted January 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 I'm back in Scotland. But planning to go boar and roe buck stalking in May again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weejase Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Hi mate, where about in west lothian do you stay? I`m from livingston Nice pics Btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Well done mate.Good pics too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glogin Posted January 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Hi mate, where about in west lothian do you stay? I`m from livingston Nice pics Btw Livingston as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what rabbit Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 great pics you lucky so & so ( thought best not to swear ) great place to go hunting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trussman Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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