Thread: A good day in the hills

Just a little round up of a great Sunday hunt with some all round good buggers.
After various unfruitful walks and getting sick of boring solo hunts Id been pestering Hntmad to take me out for a hunt up the local range next time he went out. CraigC was also local and straight onboard.
Yesterday (Sunday) was organised and an early start was locked in. 4am meet at macas for a champions feed and we were off over the rimutaka hill to meet hamish. Couple of handshakes , chuck all the gear and dogs into the same wagon and a short drive and we’re off.
530am we were beating the feet up at an undisclosed public road end under torch light to get up high and see the sunlight warm the valley.
Not long after, the first deer of the day is spotted having a snooze below us 280 yards out, a yearling delicious fallow. Decide to use Craig’s suppressed 284 to protect the dogs ears and not spoke out the rest of valley as I’ve bought a canon without a suppressor .
284 does the damage and Hamish chucks one through it for good measure , we’re on the board only an hour in.
Some quick butchery and tips from Hamish and we carry on to some likely spots in the next valley.
Soon spot a smorgasbord of animals enjoying the first bit of sun after a few days rain- a fallow, 3 red hinds and a moo cow.
The 3 creeps manage to creep into within 400 yards two reds feeding on a grassy face and the rifles are lined up for the tandem double rudder shot . 3 2 1 shoot and both the deer are smoked. The third red at 505 yards swings around to see what all the fuss is about and Craig drills it at 500 in swirling wind no worries at all. Unreal. I’m thinking I need to come out with these blokes more often
The easy work was done and the pups made short work of finding the deceased deer. The next 5 hours was butchering and slogging the meat back to the truck. It was sore shoulders and I slept like a baby last night but it was a day to remember! Heaps of laughs, see some new sights and filled the freezer. Day done

Just a note: theres some bloody good c&nts out there - I’d never met Hamish or Craig before the hunt, they went out of their way to show me the jedi ways and were total legends so cheers lads

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