Some wonderful movie sounds very played.(ok i know this is a hunting thread, so let me have the artistic freedom here) my favourite and it was also the favourite of the conductor(not a bus conductor, but music conductor) soundtrack from James Bond movie. Anyway after a beer or so we left for home. We decided to go hunting roe deer in the morning.
Got up 6 o’clock, poured down a hot cup of tea down our throats and took the car to the hunting ground five minutes away.
We loaded up the Parker Hale Scout rifle in .243 cal and went off the wooded area looking for the deer. It was a clear, frosted morning; with frost on the ground and every step we took we could here the crunch of the frost under our boots could be heard load and clear miles away. For stalking we were making rather a lot of sound but could not help it as the frost was every where.
Within ten minutes we spotted one on the top of the hill next to a fence, it looked like a Roe Buck, who was looking at us. We stood still and got the binos out, within few minutes we spotted three more.
As we were some distance away, down hill and too far for a shot. We decided to move to the right and go up and take a shot, this did not come off as something spooked the deer and they all skipped pretty Sharpe to the left along the fence line.
We decide to go along a piece of dead ground in the same direction and turn right to intercept them. After half an hour we went to the right, up hill.
As there was some thick bushes and a stream between us and the deer, which helped to deaden the sound of our boots on the frost.
We then turned right going uphill, after going for forty meters, we saw something moving 100 meters ahead, up and behold it was a deer running down hill, as we stood still we had a fleeting glimpse of others running down hill. So a quick change of plan we decided to go the top of the ridge and moving along it looking down hill, which would help in masking our scent and should give us a clear shot. So off we went, stalked to the end of the ridge but did not spot any deer. So we planed to move down into the dead ground as before and stalk on the same ground as before in case they were in the bushes. At the end we decided to go up again about thirty meters to take a look to our right, we saw noting and decided to go to the left. Walking along the lower ground looking up wards in case the deer went that way. This piece of ground was newly planted with young trees some thick bushes here and there.
After ten minutes of stalking, i saw deer movement to my right, up hill. With a quick sign language with Jerry, we had the binos and the scope looking at the deer, they were the same four we were staking. A quick nod with Jerry, i got on my knees and got a the cross on the Roe Doe (female, until 31 march, only the female could be shot) took the shot, the deer run, applied the safety, we decide that Jerry would go to where the deer was hanging out before the shot looking for blood tracks and i will go a little further up. I went to some bushes and up and behold there was the deer laying on the ground threshing, took aim and put a second shot into it. Jerry came over and we looked over the deer.
The doe was not going any where as it was a heart shot, the first time. We looked around and saw the blood trail, the doe had run for fifty meters or so and clasped.
We took the doe back with us for and carried out the final part of the stalk, the Gralloching. It took us around one and half hour of staking to get the deer.
shoots good as well. the doe was roughly 20kg, from the teeth, approx 3 years old. the doe is still in winter coat, but began to change a little to summer coat.