Thread: Tag team tripple TTT

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Popped into Roxburgh with Dan one evening and I was quite proud to show him the home of Jimmy's pies...he was like "what's Jimmy's pies???"
It was one of those moments when you feel like saying "you're dead to me" lol

In my defence I didn't grow up here in NZ, hell I didn't even know what a Georgie pie was till maccas re instated them a while back.
Also Sheffield pies right in my backyard and Fairlie pies much closer than Roxburgh I'm spoilt for pie choice
I will admit my Jimmy's pie debut was pretty impressive, really would've loved a lamb shank one, I guess good excuse to come back

After the mornings success, we cruised the tops for a bit cursing the wind as it was not in our favour in a lot of faces we would have liked to hunt, we bumped a group of nice looking bucks which was cool to watch (we were on a promise not to shoot bucks at this time of year with the land owner).
We managed to spot a group of deer feeding down a face 2 ridges away from us and they were being pretty static working slowly down hill whilst staying out in the open.
We decided to see if we could put a sneak on and get within shooting range.
We got to the ridge opposite the deer and ranged them at over 900 yards..... to far for us especially with the wind constantly shifting.
We looked at what would be required to get closer and it was gonna be a long steep walk but the contours looked promising enough to kep us hidden, so we went ultra light 1 rifle, 1 knife, 1 set of binos and a range finder.
We set off down hill at a steady pace keeping out of sight from the mob, we quickly closed 300 yards on them and stopped to check what they were up to, it wasn't great something was spooking them they weren't looking so calm and were starting to get jittery every cloud that blew over bringing them in and out of shadow seemed to put the shits up them, every gust of wind seemed to put them on edge and then just like that they were gone melting into the matagouri they had been skirting.
We were skunked, we slowly came to terms with that and decided even though we knew where they were roughly with the wind constantly changing it wasn't worth the effort of trying to chase them any further. We slowly made our way back up the ridge tails between our legs but confident there would be better opportunities on a more sheltered face.
Once back with our gear we decided to hunker down out of the wind for a brew and re group for an afternoon hunt so Ryan could christen his new Bergara.
Nothing like a hot cuppa to clear the head, we were feeling re charged and ready to go.

We made our way to camp getting there just as the heavens opened up.
We stashed the deer with the 2 I shot earlier and went about making coffees and revisiting the highlights of the day.
We were both pretty tired but satisfied.
We heated up our dinners and delighted in having desert as well mine in the form of chocolate and Ryan's in yoghurt.
We also were a little sad as we had more than enough venison so there would be no hunting tomorrow.
We hunkered down for a cold windy and rainy night knowing we would be heading out in the morning to process our spoils.

I bought a 1L bottle of JD down in case we needed to be cheered up, between us this is all we managed, what a pair of lightweights
Clearly we had such a good time we didn't need any cheering up.

Great to see you got to try out all that new gear.
Sounds like an excellent trip.

great yarn. Looks like plenty of good feed on the hill, presume the deer were in god condition.

Originally Posted by chainsaw

great yarn. Looks like plenty of good feed on the hill, presume the deer were in god condition.

Yup they were in great nick

Bringing it all together and trying out new gear sure can be fun. Sounds like a good and satisfying time. And great that Ryan blooded his new "not .270".

Thanks for the story.

Great story and trip, sounds as if the 270 WSM is panning out well. Plenty of good meat to enjoy, Well Done.

Originally Posted by Mooseman

Great story and trip, sounds as if the 270 WSM is panning out well. Plenty of good meat to enjoy, Well Done.

Yep I've wanted a 270 wsm for a long time, wont be letting it go in a hurry

Great yarn Danny and well done both on a very successful trip.

great effort the pair of you. enjoy the vennison. just as well that begera works having sold the fox...sob sob.. go the mighty .277

Mean write up Danny.Good hunt guys well earned!

Thanks for the write-up, Danny. Will have to hook up with one or both of you myself one day...

Originally Posted by mopheadrob

Thanks for the write-up, Danny. Will have to hook up with one or both of you myself one day...

So long as your happy just taking the rifle for a walk, our success last week was the exception not the usual .......well for me anyway