Got away for my last armed trip north for the year, I'm lucky enough to know someone with land access off the back of a few farms that borders native bush. I like to get away every couple of months for a sanity check and grab some goat rear wheels for the slow cooker.
Drove up into the land and whilst out on a point glassing the valley below, saw a very large red goat walk across a clearing...... we crept down the valley in the truck making as much noise as possible, running over every log, scraping against every branch - even managed to accidentally toot the horn. Stopped short of the area where the deer was seen and I crept ahead with my mate trailing about 30mtrs behind.
I started walking up the siding where I suspected the deer had headed, when I heard a single whistle from behind, looked back to see my mate with rifle to shoulder - few seconds later 'bang' and there was that smacking sound of a good hit - suddenly 2 deer exploded out of the bush only a few meters from me. I swung my rifle and could see a exit hole on one of them, so tried to stay calm and lead on the second one - they saw me and split and I squeezed a round off. Good solid hit on the 2nd one.
Thats bbq's sorted for the summer - so happy, and a unexpected bonus on a goat hunting trip.
Not bad for a couple of cheapo JW103's - I'm really enjoying the 7.62x39, gives my shoulder a nice rest from my normal .308, but still has plenty of knockdown. And being the miser that I am, just using cheap steel Tula or Barnual - nothing fancy.
You'll see the exit wound - passed through the shoulder on an angle....
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