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Yokel Matt

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  7. Bugger...

    in Deer Stalking & Management

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    Last Saturday evening - I'd been up well before dawn and after walking for miles and seen feck-all (on my permission anyway) decided to spend the last 2 hours of daylight sat in a high seat set in 12 acres of divine sitka spruce permission that was part of a 300 acre block. It was both cold and windy so being sat on my arse in the highseat and before long I was absolutely freezing my nuts off.

     

    Some total bell-ends had decided to spend the evening pretending to be Ray Mears or Bear Grylls and were 150 meters away on the neighbours permission with a roaring fire and trying to break more firewood so moral and expectations were low to say the least!

     

     

    Maybe ten / fifteen minute of shootable light left - like a mirage, a group of sika approach from my left. The adult hind was easy to spot so, selecting an obvious calf as soon as it was clear BOOM.... thump. followed by deer running every-which-way. I followed my hind calf the few yards that she was visible to gauge her general direction and then was distracted by as following group that stopped in the same spot. There happened to be another calf in this group so, going for a straight pin-shot, I dropper her on the spot.

     

    The first strike had been on in an area of rushy grass on a ride of woodland and try as a might in the half-light I couldn't find the strike spot. I spent an hour, well past darkness, looking with a decent torch and eventually gave up.

     

    I was back at dawn the next day to follow up and was PISSED to see that something had got there first. I must have walked past it a dozen times but it was invisible in the ditch if collapsed into... I really must get a dog!

     

     

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  9. Mini-Moley

    in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control

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    Naturally I want my little lad to enjoy hunting, trapping and fishing like I do but haven't wanted to press it on him, besides.... he's only just turned 4! Anyway, he's insisted on tagging along on a recent visit to a farm where I've got some mole traps down (much to his mums annoyance) and so he jumped in the Landrover.

     

    He's seen plenty of dead deer & rabbits in my chiller before so I wasn't worried about his reaction to things - that said I wasn't expecting him to get so stuck in with pointing out the sprung traps, helping to carefully pull them up and then handling the catch - he loved it. Not only was he great company but he made me really proud.

     

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  12. Preventing Poaching In The Uk

    in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management

    Posted

    Bravado and bullshit in spades... Almost like watching reality TV when someone's making a total prick out themselves and doesn't realise it. Some of the replies on here are embarrassing to read.

     

    If this lad can find a way to help the true custodians of the countryside preserve it and keep at bay the selfish, theiving pricks that rob their 'sport' and are too lazy to earn it he's got my full support. When poachers guns / vehicles are seized and their dogs destroyed maybe the penny will drop and they'll realise that actions have consequences.

     

    We'll see how tough they all talk then.

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  18. Sika Songs

    in Deer Stalking & Management

    Posted

    You had to be there really - it looked like it would drop any second and as he was obviously on his way down I didn't want to give it any reason for the adrenaline to kick in... especially as it was pushing 300m by this point. There was also livestock in he vicinity to worry about so not as cut and dry as it was described.

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