Friday evening, 7.30. There's about 500 acres of scrub over the top of the ridge in the neighbours where the circled dead deer came from (230 yard shot).
How did I know that this would be a good spot to watch?? Any guesses?
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Friday evening, 7.30. There's about 500 acres of scrub over the top of the ridge in the neighbours where the circled dead deer came from (230 yard shot).
How did I know that this would be a good spot to watch?? Any guesses?
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Open gate?
broken top wire? Wasn't for the grass by the looks
Out of the wind?
Intel from the cocky ;)
Real guess is it's sheltered from the wind
big hole in fence at top ???
DEER SIGN ...There was a sign on the property which had deer written on it?
Yeah, you guys are mostly onto it.
The missing panel of battens and crooked battens in a bit of a saddle caught my eye. It's a boundary fence and elsewhere pretty tidy. Where the panel of missing battens is there is a bare patch of grass where they have been jumping over. It was sheltered too on a really windy night. Just on dark about 45 minutes later I got a second one.
The first one I shot didn't jump over it actually pushed through the wires where the battens are missing.
Next question: what's the 'scope??
Strange deer normally hate the smell of sheep.
Fallow don't seem to mind mingling with sheep. Hungry deer, and too many as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeRei
A broken one, held together with insulation tape :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
flying along boundarys in the 500 one could see from quite some way off the little black marks in paddock where deer had jumped fence and landed digging front hooves in - but even better wet grass the tracks stood out clear as - deer in the paddock somewhere - had to look though at times they were several paddocks out into farm
Close. But no cigar :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Nikko Stirling?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Would the scope be some Chinese brand?
He had just put DAP on so there was a fresh pick coming through lower down the hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbear
Stop it. You can go and sit in the corner with Rod. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwijames
And you. Go and sit with those other 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
Yes Sir ....... by the way, Rumi wrote that quote in the 13th century !Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Were you close friends ?
I haven't shot an easy fallow in awhile. Hopefully Dad shoots one this evening while he's out. I should have gone with him..
Bushnell?
Looks like an older scope with those big turrets.
Sightron stac
Red band. An offshoot of the gumboot factory.
We went to school together.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
SWFA.
tell us about it.
Also im intrigued at the amount of tape. I know you do it for a purpose, what is that?
It's a Hawk Scope
Its the MOA version of this https://www.swfa.com/swfa-3-15x42-ss...pe-107011.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by whanahuia
They are pretty much bomb proof. The Yanks call them the poor mans Nightforce. I used it for a while and then Craig had it on his 300RUM, and now it's back with me. Only criticism is that it doesn't have a zero stop - but the clicks are very firm.
They say they don't export but if you contact them directly they will take an order (or they did a few years ago when I got this one).
The tape is holding protective bike tubing in place.
Here's a video of reds going over a fence like this. It's a bit long so just flick through it. The crossing point is always the same place, you can see it from miles away, especially in late spring. Just an earthen patch on both sides of a wonky bit of fence, and clear deer trails leading to it. There's two crossing points, both have heaps of belly fur on the barbed top wire and in the surrounding grass.
The young animals are schooled in how to get across by the older hinds. You'll see the young ones working it out towards the end. They're dumb as animals though - we've shot dozens of nice fat meat hinds out of this paddock, often on consecutive evenings. Whilst they teach each other how to cross the fence, they don't teach each other than death lies on the other side.
(The far side of the fence is off limits.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJSU...sRnMLIiIotDouz
Nice. I’ve been wanting to get a swfa 3-9 for ages after all the praises they get from the lads on Rokslide. I ended up with an actual Nightforce in the end. The 2.5-10
It looks to cheap and shitty to be a nikko stirling :PQuote:
Originally Posted by kiwijames
One you look through?
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That's so he knows which way around to mount it :D
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Originally Posted by whanahuia
