Stringfellows

[greengrass3 0]

A local farmer recently telephoned me to say that whilst out checking his stock he had seen two fallow bucks joined at the head by some red material. When he approached on the quad they ran back into the wood, clearing a four foot fence as though they were one animal. He also saw them later in the day feeding in a game crop. Once again they lowered and raised their heads together. Although they made a hasty exit he noticed that one of them seemed less sure on his feet than the other. Could I assist? I went out with the rifle morning and night for two days without sighting the pair. On the following Saturday the keeper on my stalking ground phoned from his mobile to say that he had found the pair tangled up in bushes in the middle of a pheasant drive. The shoot owner insisted that he put them down. This he did with two neck shots from a 12 bore before continuing the drive. When I arrived later towards dusk I had to decapitate the deer in order to separate them. The plastic baling twine wrapped around their antlers was so thick and tight that I could not easily part it with a knife and as dark was approaching I took the easy option. After skinning the two bucks I discovered their bodies to be covered in a mass of bruises and cuts, rendering them totally useless for consumption. I have found and killed a number of male deer in the same string tangled condition in recent months and have now discovered the location of large number of straw bales dumped some years ago by a tenant farmer. The deer seem to be attracted to this area and scratch around and forage in the mouldy straw. Now and again a buck will aquire a hat rack full of the old fashioned thick baler twine. The more he struggles to free himself the more twine he pulls free from the bales and the worse it gets. I have now spent many hours cutting and pulling this plastic menace from the rotted straw and hopefully have cleared most of it.

[sounder 9]

A local farmer recently telephoned me to say that whilst out checking his stock he had seen two fallow bucks joined at the head by some red material. When he approached on the quad they ran back into the wood, clearing a four foot fence as though they were one animal. He also saw them later in the day feeding in a game crop. Once again they lowered and raised their heads together. Although they made a hasty exit he noticed that one of them seemed less sure on his feet than the other. Could I assist? I went out with the rifle morning and night for two days without sighting the pair. On the following Saturday the keeper on my stalking ground phoned from his mobile to say that he had found the pair tangled up in bushes in the middle of a pheasant drive. The shoot owner insisted that he put them down. This he did with two neck shots from a 12 bore before continuing the drive. When I arrived later towards dusk I had to decapitate the deer in order to separate them. The plastic baling twine wrapped around their antlers was so thick and tight that I could not easily part it with a knife and as dark was approaching I took the easy option. After skinning the two bucks I discovered their bodies to be covered in a mass of bruises and cuts, rendering them totally useless for consumption. I have found and killed a number of male deer in the same string tangled condition in recent months and have now discovered the location of large number of straw bales dumped some years ago by a tenant farmer. The deer seem to be attracted to this area and scratch around and forage in the mouldy straw. Now and again a buck will aquire a hat rack full of the old fashioned thick baler twine. The more he struggles to free himself the more twine he pulls free from the bales and the worse it gets. I have now spent many hours cutting and pulling this plastic menace from the rotted straw and hopefully have cleared most of it.

that must of being a right c**t durning the rut,IF IT WAS TWO DOES WOULD BE ONE LUCKY BUCK.....TWINS

[spudlington 3]

Good on ye greengrass3

[v-max 2]

Well done a good ending to what could have been a bad 1.

[martin 332]

Poor b*****ds......not a very dignified death was it.Stuff is just as bad as barbed wire isn't it............martin.

[foxdropper 17,092]

Some years ago there was a roe buck that had cleaned his antlers on a big hay bale and ended up with a load of wrap on him .Looked like a boufont hair do .Someone else shot him caught up in a hedge ,having lost a lot of body weight

[trappa 517]

Well done greengrass. I hate reading things like that, it must have been awful for them.