The rabbits were shot at 50-100m. At the the 33 second mark there is a paddock of rabbits at around 300m. We had a strong tail wind and they didn't stick around long. The polaris scope we were using...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 12:02 PM
Put this together using the Conotech Tracer 50 handheld scanner and a Conotech Polaris Riflescope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyd2rApcodc
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 12:01 PM
The best thing you can do is not hunt in summer;):D The next best is only hunt evenings.... Only thing I have found to work fairly well is gut the deer and then drag the deer 15-20y away and...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:59 AM
Thing is Tahr probably shoots more deer in a year than most folks on here would shoot in a lifetime :D Pillow cases are good (avoid plastic bags) Baling twine (or similar) is handy for tying of...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:59 AM
Im hungry now having seen that......hopefully the eye fillets from fallow I shot this time thursday will be ok now...always dodgy in the 24-36 hours after death,would be shame to cook it and find its...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:58 AM
From this .. 186140 To this... in about 15 - 20 minutes. I usually use pillow cases or Hunters' Element bags but I was out of them on that trip so I left it cooling for a while before putting...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:57 AM
and DONT cut yourself doing so..........
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:55 AM
Same, just had a fillet of that fat stag i shot. Thought it was pretty average considering hung for a week and the rest is great. Im crap in the field when it comes to butchering but normally im too...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:55 AM
Ive never tied either end...and never had issues,sure Ive had occasional jelly bean drop inside,but its only a jelly bean and easily removed,if you flick them out back end first its not much off...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:54 AM
I cut the pizzle and balls off as a matter of course and remove it still connected to the bladder. I have open the abdomen anyway so grab the cock and cut that down to the arse.(Good practice for if...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:53 AM
If a deer is cleanly gutted and hung by the head with air flow right through and in a breeze ( deer shot in evening) by morning it will have dried and 'skinned over' and flys wont blow it. They blow...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:49 AM
Its a good thread to see who actually hunts a lot and doesn't given the hard time Nathan is getting. I've lost count of the number of deer I see dead of natural causes in waterways. Sent from my...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:44 AM
As someone who has had giardia from contaminated creek water and throwing up or shitting through the eye of a needle for a week , then 2 weeks just generally feeling downtrodden followed by another...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:42 AM
A butcherd stag carcass like that shouldn't be to hard too move out of the waterway? Pretty bad look for non hunters to come across. Wouldn't even cross my mind to leave one in a creek.
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:39 AM
Also why I use a filter straw to drink from creeks/rivers . Have found goat's dumped in to many creeks/rivers including right in the hut creeks to not use a filter of some sort. There's...
Liked On: 22-12-2021, 11:39 AM