Yokel Matt
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Kind of you to say so Tommy - wish I had a little boiler and pressure washer... the wifes' Le-Crucet when she's not looking and a few hours scraping with a knife was more like it
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Nice going there bud - lucky the ditch wasn't full of water or you'd have had soggy feet to go with the rest of you... I can imagine the conversation when you got home " clean this lot luv - i'm goig to larder this buck and then crash infront of the telly" :vava:
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3 Rifles, 1 shotgun... although if the wife asks....... : 6.5x55 Sauer .223 Remi 700 .22 Rimfire CZ 452 12g Sable 25" Blunderbus
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In all honesty the first word out my mouth this morning was "bollocks" Half past bloody three in the morning, an earful off the wife for waking her up and now this - a cold and blustery wind driving the sort of drizzle which gets you soaked and fogs your optics up. Perfect contitions for a cold, wet walk. Fortunatly my mood and the weather improved on the way to Foxdroppers in Wiltshire - the land of milk and honey I told him what the weather was like in Somerset 40 minutes @ 90 mph away and he said it'll be here in a hour so there was cut the foreplay and get on with it. We made out w
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Well done bud - a nice buck which I expect more than made up for the numb arse you got from the seat
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Looks like i've arrived late and missed all the fun Fair play again John for putting up a constructive post which tells it like it is. For a minute I though I was the only person on the sight hadn't had every deer I've shot drop on the spot
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Cheers guys - another memorable evening. Martin: I don't think i've straightened up yet mate
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A treat - I'll say Absolute beauty. You home load don't you John.. I'm going to have to open the re-loading pack thats gathering dust and get into it as i'm well into my last box of federal and can't find anything but FMJ on the shelves.
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Met up with my good mate FD for a look about yesterday evening after throwing together a last minute trip out. Weather looked like it could go either way but if you don't go you don't know and all that. Got to the location around 7.30 and promptly kitted up and set off. Its a great spot mainly laid to mixed grazing and criss crossed with thick hedges which leans down to a fenced plantation alongside a train-track. As has been discussed before on the forum - the policy of having 7ft deer fences is great but totally bloody pointless next to a train track where the track side has to be left open
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On the case now mate - hope your pics came out better than mine! John - Keep at it and keep posting!
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This was actually way back on the day of the royal wedding but haven't had web access until now. My good wife had one of her friends down with her two children, one of which was a lad who's dad (a good mate who was sadly couldn't make it) I had initiated to shooting last year with the aid of the rimfire and a few obliging rabbits and hares. The pomp and ceremony on the telly was wearing a little thin so I mentined popping out later to look for a buck and a few rabbits to which his face lit up... so much so the two women couldn't possibly say no After swathering him in massively oversized
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Apologies for not getting this pic up earlier but the tinterweb at my house is rubbish and the hardware is 5 years old Anyhoo... here are some pics of this boy boiled out - he's had a nasty tangle at some point and it the hole in his face did a fair amount of damage. An old wound from the last rut or maybe earlier judging by the bone recovery. He's a gurt biggun' to use a west country term currently weighing just over 660 grams. The pics were taken moments after scraping which is why he looks a bit pasty but he's gleming now. A cracking buck FD with GLOD MEDAL written all over him - long
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Very good again mate - chalking them up now you lucky fellow you!
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Out for a Buck this evening............
Yokel Matt replied to martin's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
Good to see you out and about mate and what a beauty he is to -
Fantastic Pic... For a game teckle standing 8" at the shoulder taking them single handed would be a mere formality Been getting out much recently Tommy? I can't seem to think about anything else at the moment
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Welcome mate - Three good shots and the farmer well pleased. I picked up a few ticks and a ked carrying that buck though... the Mrs wasn't impressed at 1am.
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Brilliant read mate and great shot and a big fox - may I ask what calibre the rifle is and the barrel length. Was the distance to the baited area a necessity because of the wary nature of this fox because thats one hell of a shot.
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Good on you again me ol' mucker
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Nice going David – Good to see you on here a bit more mate. I remember you were on a fair bit a while back dropping fox’s & deer at good ranges with that .243 of yours. From pricket’s to medals they can all give you the run around and get the heart racing
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A sobering start to the buck season
Yokel Matt replied to Yokel Matt's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
Hi matey - I see what you mean by the photo looking a bit suspect but I think it's just the angle and that the pluck was in a jumbled pile.. Other thank the hole they appeared ok - those two white lumps to the top right of the pic from exampe look well dodgy from the pic but I'd pulled the pluck back out the hedge to take the pic and air must have got trapped in the film layers. The lymph nodes were not suspect but those pods down the throat were odd so I gave the whole lot a good going over. Hywell She was an old girl anyway mate and this gammy let was certainly adding to her troubles -
Finished work earlier than expected on Monday so popped over to a farm to zero my .223 which has recently had some work done on it. The farmer had made a passing comment about the number of deer he'd seen recently, one of which appeared in difficulty, so I took the 6.5x55 with me as well together with ammo for both guns, targets, bino's, sticks and a length of tarp to lie on so I was pretty loaded up. I noticed the kidney shaped ass of a roe buck on the other side of the hedge as I approached my zeroing patch so slowed up to get a closer look. He turned out to be a nice 6 pointer with a doe in
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Confident start to the season mate and a nice buck to boot... one would hope the shape of things to come. Good going.
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Not teaching granny to suck eggs or anything but I got overconfident with my rimfire and .223 and got into the habit of snatching the shot instead of squeezing gently and missed loads of routine shots. Small targets at distance and its easily done I agree with Ian that HMRs dont take too kindly to a grubby barrel, whereas with a .22 you can plug LR subs through it all its life and never clean it the HMR is a quick bugger and those copper coatings must build up similar to a full bore. Still if your mate is bowling them over and youre missing it seems like its down to you. Having said that its
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Nice [not so little] piggy… he should have stayed at home