With The Right Angles ...

[sussex 5,777]

With the right angles you can hide twenty deer behind to thin trees ....out again this afternoon with a big south easterly wind blowing it was never going to be an evening in the seat up on the bit we call the park , just an area of grass with scattered big trees and a marshy scrub in the bottom of the valley , the seat is high up the bank beneath a huge pine were the deer like to be because they have a view over the whole bank and a shot out to them has no backstop , on a warm evening you need to be in the seat at least two hours before hand to stand a chance of beating them to the spot ..

On windy cold days they are normally to be found down in the scrub at the bottom of the valley ,which is exactly where they were today ..with the wind in my face I slowly made my way down from the top , lining myself behind trees to get down low enough to get into the scrub , work my way around the edge and get a shot along the back edge of the scrub , the whole plan went to perfection until I looked along the back edge ...nothing ....I was sure I would have spotted them leaving , I kept glassing along the edge , still nothing , on hands and knees I edged out another few yds ...from this angle there was 30+ spread along the scrub line , just those few yds changed everything , life changing for an old doe , at 140m in the lee of the wind she fell to a 6.5 ..satisfying shot after a forty minute stalk she went 68lb in the chiller to not a very good pic it was taken on the iPad ..

 

 

[Rabid 1,936]

Looks like the dog spotted another one you missed ! Well done though, another one grassed and a good weight as well, you soon be hitting that cull target

Edited February 6, 2016 by Rabid

[sussex 5,777]

They were down in the dipRob were you shot that first one out on the park bit ..they were the only ones I had a chance of getting on , see well over a hundred in three or four groups but it would have been long shots in a strong wind ..

[Rabid 1,936]

Think yourself lucky mate, been pissing down here all day, spent most of it in the workshop making a fox trap. Fecking windy too, thought I was gonna loose the roof at one point, are those 6.5's affected much by wind ?

At least you dropped one, better than watching all the shite on tv !

[The one 8,476]

Nice result you got there in the end mate

[sussex 5,777]

Think yourself lucky mate, been pissing down here all day, spent most of it in the workshop making a fox trap. Fecking windy too, thought I was gonna loose the roof at one point, are those 6.5's affected much by wind ?

At least you dropped one, better than watching all the shite on tv !

Got up to go this morning , chucking down ! ..back to bed . Probably the best round I've used in the wind , to be fair I don't bother with long shots in high wind if it can be avoided .At the sort of distances I'm hitting them they have been bang on .

[Yokel Matt 918]

Being in a seat in the wind isn't that much fun either, even seemingly solid trees sway more than you'd think not to mention all the twigs and bits if shite snapping off and falling all around you!

 

Another good result for you though and in difficult conditions - nice one.