It was filmed in Poland. These are suburbs of Warsow, there is a big motorway on one side and surrounded by the town, with some single houses dotted through the area. It is not easy to show on the vid, but there are cars, houses and people all over the place :-) High seats are allowed, but not that many around, couple of high towers for wild boar shooting.
This is peri-urban area with a town, motorway, but also some agricultural land in between. Plenty of deer, but also people and cars any time of day and night. I hope this shows how important good backstop is in such areas. The buck has been drying for a week, so won't dry out much more, weights 525g.
Had a chance to try some Armasight NV and took it out with me pig hunting couple of times.
Must say it was quite useful and I was able to distinguish between the sexes (sows were not in season) and take a shot.
Hope you enjoy these.
One of my outings filmed in late May. Plenty of deer about, but mainly young and nothing worth pulling trigger. I saw only one interesting "murder buck", couple of weeks before, but never managed to get the shot. I went to check the same area again and this time had more luck.
Blaser R8 Professional Success in .308 Win and 185gr Lapua Mega ammo.
I think I take too much stuff due to filming, so camera, tripod, etc.
I mainly stalk and shoot off sticks, binos, knife, gloves, rope, calls... it is a heavy backpack...
This is a doe kid I got in January on the rape field (season here ends early, so it was the last one for me). It was pretty windy, but I got out anyway. I thought I could still find some deer in the sheltered corner of the field. I wanted to get to the high seat, but deer were coming out already so I stayed at the edge of the field and some bushes behind me. The deer were coming nicely my way and all I had to do was to wait a bit and pull the trigger. I had rifle on sticks, so pushed the trigger forward setting it... waited for the kid to pause broadside and pulled the trigger... and nothing.