A brute

[Yokel Matt 918]

Spotted some deer in a field on some ground I haven’t visited for a couple of weeks so decided to pop over following a  short but freakish. They were in a field that I was able to approach from the cover of a wood and i spotted the candidate buck almost straight away. Unfortunately he was unsafe with houses behind him so I stood and waited hoping he’d work his way left when a risking bank of soft ground would absorb any pass through. He had other ideas and decided to couch only 50m away and I spent 40 mins looking at a perfect back of head shot that I was unable to safely take.

At 9:15 I decided to try and force the issue and get him up and barked but he went the wrong way so it was a wasted effort. On the way back down the farm track I spotted a buck way out in a meadow earmarked for hay in a few weeks time. It was pushing 9:30 by this time so I nipped out the truck and put an oak tree between us and scooted over to it. On the sticks at 80m and, bang in the chest, down he went. What a lump though! Head wouldn’t have been too bad we’re it not for the broken tines but weight wise he was well up there going 55lb on the scales (inc head) and 45lb skinned.

 

 

 

 

 

[bob.243 8,755]

Nice one

[Yokel Matt 918]

By the time I got it to the gralloch side it was dark and I’d run out of puff so used truck winch him up into the tree for the suspended gralloch. A bit embarrassing given that it’s only a roe but it was a biggun and I’d forgotten my weetabix that morning.

Had a closer look at the head and it’s better than I have it credit for.

Also looked at the exit and got to say these Barnes ttsx do just what they say on the tin... you can almost see the shape it cut out.

 

[j j m 6,539]

very nice

[leslie harold gedge 1,390]

very nice matt

 

[sussex 5,777]

Shame that tines busted mat it’s a nice symmetrical head . Good weight for a roe but a truck to hang it ? Shredded wheat mate not weetabix ..was that the 6.5 , made a tidy size hole ..

[Yokel Matt 918]

1 hour ago, sussex said:

Shame that tines busted mat it’s a nice symmetrical head . Good weight for a roe but a truck to hang it ? Shredded wheat mate not weetabix ..was that the 6.5 , made a tidy size hole ..

Yes mate - 6.5. The hole is the size of a 10p coin so pretty happy with the performance. The heads aren’t cheap at £42 for 50 but it still works out wayyyy better than what I was paying, and getting, from the factory ammo.

[sussex 5,777]

34 minutes ago, Yokel Matt said:

Yes mate - 6.5. The hole is the size of a 10p coin so pretty happy with the performance. The heads aren’t cheap at £42 for 50 but it still works out wayyyy better than what I was paying, and getting, from the factory ammo.

Much meat damage Matt ? I’m constantly amazed how little damage the 6.5 does whilst stopping everything in its track ..

[Yokel Matt 918]

Room for improvement although ribs on both sides were hit and my over-enthusiastic skinning tote the armpit making it look worse than it is.

No lead fragments to worry about though which is nice. The RWS factory rounds I used to use made a hell of a mess.

 

[The one 8,477]

Nice going mate shame about the head , do you clean them and keep all the ones you shoot ?.

 

[Yokel Matt 918]

22 minutes ago, The one said:

Nice going mate shame about the head , do you clean them and keep all the ones you shoot ?.

 

No mate - I did at first but just tend to cut the antlers off below the coronets and chuck them in a box for dog chews. If it was something exceptional I might do.

[Deker 3,478]

On ‎22‎/‎05‎/‎2018 at 20:17, Yokel Matt said:

By the time I got it to the gralloch side it was dark and I’d run out of puff so used truck winch him up into the tree for the suspended gralloch. A bit embarrassing given that it’s only a roe but it was a biggun and I’d forgotten my weetabix that morning.

Glad its not just me that has problems yanking them up trees now and again, even with the Roe!

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Matt struggles with a muntjac mind ,being an office boy lol.

[Yokel Matt 918]

It’s tough going mate - the coffee machine ran out of beans today... and the air-con was on too high so it was chilly as well.