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  1. Muntjac Man
    The Deer Commission for Scotland website had an excellent pictorial step-by-step process for butchering deer in their best practice section (albeit it's based around Reds). I have used it on Roe, and it's superb! it seems to have vanished off their website at the moment, but they are re-vamping the whole site, and appear to be re-doing all their guides, so may be worth keeping an eye on their website over the coming months. Rgds MM
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    I have used the Buttolo successfully on several occasions. However... In our village, there is a nature reserve (therefore unfortunatley no Munty shooting allowed!), where I suspected there were Munties. Went in one evening, just before dusk, stood by a tree, waited for a while, then squeaked the buttolo from inside my jacket pocket - just the single tone sqeak not the peeeeeh-aaaah squeak. Lierally seconds later a Munty buck appeared out of the brambles, and circled round me. Every time he looked like heading off, I squeaked again, and back he came. This must have gone on for over 20 minu
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    When I started deer stalking the very best thing I ever did was invest in a superb pair of bins - Swarovski SLC's in 7x42. I am truly amazed at how much more I see due to their higher contrast and sharpness. You seem to be able to peer into heavily dhaded areas and spot those tell-tale parts of a deer that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. Other than that, I travel as light as possible in silent full cammo clothing (ex-army DPM)- with knife, mobile, pouch with spare ammo, and something to drag the deer with - although I'm just about to invest in a Roesack having got fed up of dragging d
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    Thanks Rolfe. Interesting point - could be. But from what I remember on my DSC1 course, liver fluke is dependant on a water snail for its lifecycle, and where I shot the rabbits, the nearest water is a canal probably half a mile away?? Dullahan, hadn't thought of that one. Could be a point - the field wheere I shot then has only recently been plouged up and sown with crops (crops now about 2" tall) - last year it was sheep grazing it, so presumably it will have been well sprayed with fertilizer - I'll ask the farmer whose field it is. Shame you didn't get any feedback from your vet.
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    Had the same happen to me a couple of nights ago. Dropped a Doe, then less than 2 mins later, out pops a buck, sniffs at her, then started humping her. He too died happy! Presmuably ferrimones or whatever that drive their behaviour.
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    I took a Roe buck on one of my shoots a couple of weeks ago. Found an intact .17HMR in his hind leg just above the hock - where there is only about an inch or two of muscle. He had obviously been carrying it for a while because the entry wound had fully healed over. Given that the round was intact, and so low, I can only assme that it was taken at some huge range, with not the slightest chance of an accurate hit, with a rifle that was illegal, and only ever going to wound the poor creature. It seems, sadly, poaching is rapidly increasing. Somehow we need to find a way to reduce
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    Can't say about the particualt T3 you are after, but I have a T3 stainless lite in .243 for deer stalking, fitted with T8 mod, S&B scope & Harris bipod. The T8 mod makes it heavy to carry all day, but that's a price I'm willing to pay. Lovely rifle. Trigger superb - not too heavy, breaks like glass (although have to admit I did ask the very good gunsmith who sold me it to set it up properly!). Action superbly smooth. Accuarcy excellent, as various Roe and a big 10 pointer red have found to their peril! Best wishes MM
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    Out last night with the .22, took four rabbits out of one warren here in my home area of Warwickshire. All of them had white spots on the livers ranging from just a few, to loads of small spots, to one big white area 10mm dia plus smaller ones. Rabbits were varied ages from 3/4 grown adolescent to big bruiser buck, externally, all looked perfectly healthy, not many fleas. Some people say it is early stage of myxi, but none of the rabbits from that warren have shown any other signs of myxi - eyes perfectly clear, no lumps, bumps, sores etc. Have had the odd one with the white spots
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    Fitted the Brookey kit to my Ceasar 452 .22 rimmy. When new it had an absolutely unbelievable amount of creep in the trigger - you wondered exactly when it was actually going to break! Accuracy was poor. Tried 1 tube and a lighter spring - made quite a bit of difference, but not as much as I wanted. So changed for another, and now it's superb - the trigger is almost as good as my Tikka .243 deer rifle, and that breaks like glass after being set up by a very good gunsmith!! Accuracy of the Ceaser is now awesome for a rifle costing less than £250 out of the box, as many rabbits and foxe
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