Stalking again

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Decided on a stalk down at a local farm before work yesterday.Met the farmer as he was getting the cows in and he told me of a buck in some mowing grass on the boundary of his place .Cautiously approached the area and sure enough ,there he was with two does ,all three couched against the hedge maybe 350yds away .The only way i could see to get a shot was to crawl through the grass to within a shootable distance .The grass my end the field is long as opposed to where the cattle have been strip grazing the other end ,where the deer where .10 yds into the crawl i was soaked as we had a bit of drizzle first thing .Got to a better distance and had a peep .Just as well i did as they were up now and moving .One of the does was half through a hole in the hedge and into a neighbours field with the other doe thinking about about the same by the look of her .I knew that if the two does went through then the buck was gone too so a decision was made to shoot him from here .I'm not a exponent of long shots or claim to be a good shot at distance but if foxhunter can pull it off ,so can and it was now or never .Those of you that read my posts will know i have a dodgey right eye ,which has always been my master eye ,or so i thought ,so i've been shooting left handed for a while and it feels natural now .Set the bipod up high and steadied for the shot .A good back drop of earth and i squeezed off the trigger .Down he went .Paced it at 237 which i was well pleased with to be honest .A decent sized mature buck of which there are several on this patch .

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Nice one mate,

i would love to be able to shoot deer all year around.............. well done again.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Im glad I showed you the light mate No stopping you now , those bucks better be a bit more on the ball or theyve had it

Edited May 16, 2008 by FOXHUNTER

[foxkiller1968 0]

sounds like a good stalk mate and a good shot to well done nice lookin buck

[wildfowler-2007 0]

another cracking write up and what a shot at that distance your mate is right them buck's better watch out now you have sorted out the eye

 

Regards

[martin 332]

You won't be going back to shooting with your right eye now mate will you ....LOL

YIS Martin.

[v-max 2]

Well done FD another nice mature lad.