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

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

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...

Yup they were in great nick :thumbsup:

So there you have it the "tag team triple" 3 deer on the ground in one day all meat recovered.
Sorry it's a bit light on pics but no camera and the pace at which things evolved meant pics just...

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 :D
Clearly we had such a good time we didn't need any cheering up....

Back at the Songhurst Chalet We set up a gamble in Ryans garage.
Ryan made short work quatering out 3 deer I mostly just trimmed out any shot meat and packed the cuts in the chilly bin.


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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...

We decided to set up camp before heading out for our afternoon hunt as if we were successful who knows what time we would be back.
We dropped down from the topps and set up camp somewhat sheltered...

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...

Right time for a few pics

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The spiker on the right the bullet hit the base of the neck and somehow missed the guts and exited the hole you see in the side, it was facing pretty much front...

Yeah sorry Been called out, there's still plenty more to come when I get back home

We crept quietly but with some haste down to the flat where we had decided to shoot from crawling on our bellies the last few yards to stay out of sight.
Got the binos out and confirmed 2 spikers...

Ryan came down and I said to him "look straight over the top of thst rise in front of us on the opposite face below the matagouri there sre 2 deer bedded up"......

"Where there's no deer there"
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We made our way along the top ridgeline some distance and popped over the other side do the wind would be in our favour.
We settled on a valley that had 2 ridges in front of us where 2 valleys met...

So first light were up onto the tops and at our first glassing stop, within minutes Ryan had spotted a lone fallow doe, after which it took me a further 5 minutes to see it with Ryan trying to guide...

I only took 1 picture on the way down as I was keen to do as much of the trip in daylight as possible due to being unfamiliar with the roads and my night vision being a bit average.
This is Lake...

Well me and Ryan_Songhurst have been trying to tee up a hunt together for a while and for whatever reason one thing or another life just got in the way.
Finally last week the planets aligned the...