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I think that the worst time to go after a buck is right after the rut season. For at least 3-4 weeks after the rut I see mostly females on our hills. The same thing is also valid for red stag. However, since I was unable to go after them at the beginning of the summer, I need to suffer and work extra for each hunt. It was exactly as I expected during this hunt, plenty of females and young males but no decent buck in my sights. We decided to change the strategy and, instead of waiting for them to show off from some nice spotting locations (like the one from the picture bellow)

@sparky the hunter, thank you for your kind words! I'm usually not a very big fan of hunting roe deer during the rut season because I want to also enjoy their meat. I think that it requires more attention at cooking if is hunted in this period. However, I could not refuse an invitation from a hunting club and here is the result - a lovely buck with some very interesting antlers. My first evening was entertaining, I managed to see 9 females and a young red stag but no roe buck. The next day I also took the Buttolo blatter to try to call a late rut season male. To both mine and gamekee

I'm rarely hunting for "big" game in the plain areas, I feel like something is missing when I'm stalking in open field. Maybe is the lack of trees, maybe I don't like stalking between different crops, not sure exactly ... Anyway, I planned a fishing trip in a different county and my godfather suggested me to also take my rifle because the roe deer rut season is at his peak in that area and I have good chances to see old bucks in open field. Usually they remain mostly hidden in small forests or near the rivers. I had no luck at fishing and I decided to make it short and try a buck the

It's been a while since I last posted here. Life went crazy with family and children, the economy suffered due to pandemic and war and hunting was somehow less important for a while. I finally managed to find some time for roe buck hunt and, after 2 days with many other beasts in sights (stags and bears but also with young buck), my luck changed and I finally found a buck good enough. I was in the forest, going down towards a clearance when I spotted this male at about 72m. After a quick evaluation, I decided to take the shot despite the sharp angle, the small window between the tree bran

Is this a popular thing to do in UK? In the video is my father in law calling a young stag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aemiEeIuWQ

in open field they will do little damages, they love to stalk in the forests

In areas where we have a lynx family, roe completely disappears in 2-3 years. They are moving away from danger or they are eaten. I'm saying this from experience, I'm not quoting here from National Geographic or from some TV documentary.

No need to go to Africa for seeing hypocritical "green" behavior. In Romania we are forced to fully protect bears, wolves and lynxes only because we had bad representatives when we negotiated EU membership. The management of big predators was well organized, hunting ~400-500 bears each year and still maintaining a strong population. Now everything is out of controls, human attacks are often, crop and cattle damages are high (and rarely paid!) and revenge killing is a common thing. Bunch of "conservationists" from Germany, France or Holland are lecturing us on how to coexists! It is

I don't know the situation from Scotland

they could put down even adult male stags (even big stags, like ours from Romania). They will stalk from high points (trees or cliffs) and jump at the throat of the the prey. The most affected game will be roe deer. Of course, it will need hiding points to stalk and large forest areas in order to avoid humans. It is very shy. Human attacks are very rare but they exists. Damage in domestic animals are not so bad as the ones from wolves or bears but they exist (especially lambs and goats) The wild cats from the area will be killed and pushed back.

It is always fun to search for roe bucks in rut season, you have good chances to see some old males that are forgetting the safety measures for a while. This one came up to 2m from me Not too heavy but with long antlers and an unique configuration

Thank you all! I just realized that the last post on this topic was from 2018. I was annoyed back then by the fact that I encountered some weird error while posting the story behind one of my roebucks. I'm posting bellow some of my dearest memories related to roebuck hunting, the ones that I managed to shot open sight. They are not the biggest ones on my wall, but the ones that helped me to improve my hunting skills This is my personal best in terms of distance. I managed to get close until I was 6m away from him Not enough vegetation to use as cover

As I said on another topic, this year I started late the season due to expanding family and to the damn COVID-19 outbreak. Roe deer hunting is one of my favorite hunts and I was surprised to notice that is July and I have no new buck on my wall. Also, my wife started to complain because she wanted some good pasta with roe deer minced meat and the freezer was full only with wild boar meat . I try in each year to hunt one roe buck with this little rifle (Mannlicher Schonauer mod 1903, in 6.5x54MS) that belonged to a dear friend of mine that now is in "the lands of eternal hunting". For

I had little time for hunting lately because I have been very busy due to family expanding (my first daughter, hopefully she will become a huntress ?) and to some work responsibilities. However, I managed to stalk 2 nice boars (a good size 4-5 years male and a gold medal old tusker). The green grass of the spring was irresistible for them and the full moon provided enough light for my trusted Leica Magnus 2.4-16x56. The first one is the young male. A very well developed for his age. I feel sorry somehow for hunting him, a male like this will become a gold medal in another ~3 years.

After receiving the invitation, I started to clean the oil from my usually unused shotgun. Then I put 3 alarms to be able to wake up at 2am and drive ~150km until the hunting area. The day was windy and cold with some thin ice near shores but the place was excellent - a huge are filled with artificial lakes and not harvested rice fields near the Danube. I was a terrible shot but I somehow managed to shot 24 ducks from 6:30 until 1 pm (2 of them not in the pictures, destroyed by prey birds before having the chance to recover them). Drive back home for another 2h and then start taking off t