Change Of Wind ..

[sussex 5,777]

After a frosty night I decided not to do an early morning stalk but leave it until the sun came up and warmed the ground , on a lot of the morning I've done at this place when it's had a heavy frost the deer tend to bunch up feeding in a few little hollows were it's almost impossible to get at them . This morning cunning plan was to wait for the sun to warm things up , the deer would move out into the fields and I'd have a chance of adding to the cull number .

Ten o'clock I was driving slowly round the ground looking for any movement , a big bunch were in the fields behind the offices , another big bunch were in one of the horse fields ( out of bounds ) with a few stragglers in what we call the park ..The only ones really on for a chance were the office fields , with a westerly wind I would need to go right around our easterly boundary , through the bottom wood and come up beneath them ..a long very slow stalk through noisy woodland brought me to the bottom of the field with the deer in , trouble was they had moved to the very top right hand corner and were filtering out into one of the horse paddocks , another out of bounds field , after nearly two hours plan A was dead in the water ...there really wasn't a plan B ..

As I slowly made my way back to the motor along a scrub ditch I caught some movement through the trees in front of me , in a marshy field a couple of deer were grazing , Plan B was formed ...fairly basic ...just work through the ditch , get a clear view and add to the cull ..as I slowly inched my way forward with the deer slightly above me and to my right I became aware of more deer laying down directly in front of me at about 120 yds .With no shot through the trees it was a case of slowly slowly , down on my knees again it was nearly an hour to get foward enough to be able to stand up behind a tree , open the sticks and edge the rifle up onto an old doe who was laying down , to be fair I could have taken a calf earlier but chanced getting into position to take one of the mature doe's ..at seventy yds a straight neck shot added her to the plan ..

Checked we walked back for the motor for the quad , another problem , I had loaded the quad the evening before , removing the key for safety's I had left it on the kitchen table , luckily I could get the van to within a yds so it wasn't to bad ..

Gralloched , cleaned and in the chiller at 68lb ...

 

 

[sussex 5,777]

well done Rich forgetting the key signs of old age it will be your Rifle next then you will go stalking and forget what you are doing out in the Fields lol keep at it bud ..

Who are you? Have we met ?

[Yokel Matt 918]

Another good effort to make it happen - nice shot too. Bummer about the keys.. At least you left them on the kitchen table not in a hedgerow somewhere!