A wet one

[Yokel Matt 918]

Light drizzle in Wiltshire yesterday... the sort that gets you soaking wet without you noticing & plays hell with your scope and bins. The fields were properly soaking as well where we tried so it was hard going. 

The first place we tried was where I got a brace a few weeks back out of 9 we saw there. Sure enough a brace was in the same place but this time after a carbon copy stalk the wind changed direction and they were off. 

Next place was a long slog through wet fields, eventually rewarded with the sight of 3 roe right out in the middle of a big, big field... two does and a buck. There was a water trough 250 m away, they were 100m plus further on that this l but it was a good place to start. A slow hedgerow creep in full view but we got there and the cattle made the ground around it even worse. Another 40m and I had somewhere I could get on the bipod.

The first one dropped to a neck shot at 120m, the second took a while to settle down and eventually took one in the chest. That really was easy bit... I’d left the roe sack in the car!

Popped out later to a chicken farm for a look about with the lamp and managed to get on the end of this one. Still getting the hang of the quad sticks but they make such a difference.

[3175darren 1,100]

Good stalk Matt, good end to the day,

[sussex 5,777]

Nice job Matt , been using the quad sticks for a couple of years now and they certainly make a difference..I did have the all singing all dancing alloy ones , light weight and very strong .....sadly they weren’t strong enough when you run over them in a Toyota double cab ...#*@=%  it ......

[Yokel Matt 918]

9 minutes ago, sussex said:

Nice job Matt , been using the quad sticks for a couple of years now and they certainly make a difference..I did have the all singing all dancing alloy ones , light weight and very strong .....sadly they weren’t strong enough when you run over them in a Toyota double cab ...#*@=%  it ......

Ohh know, gutted! I’m a total convert now, mine were a bloody nightmare at first but turns out they were a bit lose... after a ratchet up they’re great now. This Charlie was headshot at 130m away and reckon I could have done it all day long.

[sussex 5,777]

I will end up buying another set of alloy ones , they were so light , I’ll just make sure I pack them away as opposed to leaning them against the truck and backing over them ....the air was blue ! ! 

[Yokel Matt 918]

I can imagine... thanks an easy £80-100 magically turned into 50ps worth of scrap metal?. I’ve got a set of the seeland/ decoy ones but the yoke’s seem to want to loosen themselves the more you open / close them... a basic but important design floor as you’d have more chance shooting freehand when they’re loose. 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Was  a good stalk Matt ending in good shooting .The drag was a bit messy though through all those tractor ruts but as always we took it our stride .

[j j m 6,551]

very good mate

[The one 8,487]

Nice result in the conditions mate , its been really wet for a while now but it doesn't seem to have affected the animals body conditions 

[Yokel Matt 918]

22 hours ago, The one said:

Nice result in the conditions mate , its been really wet for a while now but it doesn't seem to have affected the animals body conditions 

You’re right there - both were decent weights a very clean.