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hi guys,
hunt report from last night. went to a bit of land i shoot over it is a 2500 acre pheasant shoot. partially wooded and with some open fields. i took my remmy model 7 in 7mm08 fitted with a bushnell trophy 3-9 x 40, shooting 120 gr sierra prohunter bullets over 46 gr of viht N140. took my dog, Daisy, a 5 year old chocolate lab Bitch.
The target was to be a roe buck. the rut is in august and at this time of year the dominant bucks are pushing the young fellows about and establishing thier territories. I didn't really want a big buck because that would shake things up for the rut. but the target was a "cull" buck. a younger animal that wouldn't be breeding. It is important to cull some of these. The does will produce twins not single kids if there is some predation on them.
this was to be as you guys term, still hunting. where i creep through the woods hoping to see him before he sees me.
this is the sort of gound
the area i had in mind had been cut under some powerlines last year so i thought there would be loads of plants just nicely coming through now. i parked the car at the yard and worked into the wind to bring me to the right place.
this picture is taken from where i subsequently shot from.
as i got there i saw deer about 70-75 yards away from me picking through the plants, head down and eating. identified him through my binos as a yearling buck. i mounted my rifle, put the cross hairs half way up his body in line with his frontleg, he was broadside to me. slid off the safety and squeezed the trigger.
he jumped straight up and kicked all four feet outwards, indicative of a solid strike in the heart.. on landing he flopped about a little before going over. I took a P, had a coffee from my flash and made my way forward.
He was laying dead in the grass. I touched his eye with my stick to check for a reflex but thier was none; he was very, very dead.
he was a perfect roe buck for culling, I gralloched him out and hung him on the pylon to fully bleed out before collecting him in the car and coming home.
the gralloch showed he was hit and one side of his heart was destroyed.
a successful stalk.
the antler formation is typical of a yearling buck on good ground.
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hunt report from last night. went to a bit of land i shoot over it is a 2500 acre pheasant shoot. partially wooded and with some open fields. i took my remmy model 7 in 7mm08 fitted with a bushnell trophy 3-9 x 40, shooting 120 gr sierra prohunter bullets over 46 gr of viht N140. took my dog, Daisy, a 5 year old chocolate lab Bitch.
The target was to be a roe buck. the rut is in august and at this time of year the dominant bucks are pushing the young fellows about and establishing thier territories. I didn't really want a big buck because that would shake things up for the rut. but the target was a "cull" buck. a younger animal that wouldn't be breeding. It is important to cull some of these. The does will produce twins not single kids if there is some predation on them.
this was to be as you guys term, still hunting. where i creep through the woods hoping to see him before he sees me.
this is the sort of gound
the area i had in mind had been cut under some powerlines last year so i thought there would be loads of plants just nicely coming through now. i parked the car at the yard and worked into the wind to bring me to the right place.
this picture is taken from where i subsequently shot from.
as i got there i saw deer about 70-75 yards away from me picking through the plants, head down and eating. identified him through my binos as a yearling buck. i mounted my rifle, put the cross hairs half way up his body in line with his frontleg, he was broadside to me. slid off the safety and squeezed the trigger.
he jumped straight up and kicked all four feet outwards, indicative of a solid strike in the heart.. on landing he flopped about a little before going over. I took a P, had a coffee from my flash and made my way forward.
He was laying dead in the grass. I touched his eye with my stick to check for a reflex but thier was none; he was very, very dead.
he was a perfect roe buck for culling, I gralloched him out and hung him on the pylon to fully bleed out before collecting him in the car and coming home.
the gralloch showed he was hit and one side of his heart was destroyed.
a successful stalk.
the antler formation is typical of a yearling buck on good ground.
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We call cuts through the brush like that, though not necessarily for power lines, a "sendero". Box stands will often be constructed on such right of ways. 
