This years roe buck season ....

[Scotsgun]

How has the roe buck season been ?. Here's a few pics from mine - no real medal heads to speak of but some fine bucks and unusual heads.

[dodgyrog]

It's been productive on one of my shoots but blank on the other due to the amount of harvesting disturbance and possibly because of an influx of Sika.
Last night's buck.
The little blighter turned on me as I shot and the bullet went too far back. He dropped to the shot.

[Scotsgun]

You were lucky he dropped.

Don't you have permission to stalk the Sika too. I think Sika are the most challenging to stalk.

Reminds me of when i took 2 Danish stalkers out. Buggers wanted to shoot the deer in the liver and couldn't understand why i refused.

[Sandgroper]

:goodjob:

[Sim G]

Buggers wanted to shoot the deer in the liver and couldn't understand why i refused.

Purely out of curiosity, why would they want to shoot the deer in the liver?

[Robin128]

Is it something to do with how they fall quickly, don't run so far but a slow death?

I wish my back was up to it...I'd love to go stalking.

:)

[Dougan]

We've got a lot of deer in Dorset - the rate of deer shooting is more than sustainable, and you can get it in plenty of pubs and restaurants - but they can rarely tell what type of deer the venison came from, so I don't know which I prefer to eat.

As for spotting them - I find it easier to get close to the sika (but there are quite a lot down here), as I tend to see them on the edges of woods, where as the roe tend to be in the woods (although easier at this time of year, due to the rut). Last month I was walking down a path to some woods (on our range), and spotted a sika laying down in a bush about 70 yrds away - it had seen me, but I prettended not to have seen it - I continued down the path and got within 10 m of it - as soon as I stopped and looked at it, it was up and off....I could have dropped it with a hand gun if I'd wanted to.

I've never really found it that challenging getting close (within 200 mtrs) to deer, so I'm not sure why it's called 'deer stalking' - would 'deer shooting' not be more appropriate? Now finding Adders - that's challenging...I've only ever seen a couple, when I've been deliberatly looking for them....

[Robin128]

Always a worry adders...learned very early on in life to make a noise if walking thru tall grass to the nearest river to swim with nought on my feet but plastic sandals.

Now I'm a right wuss when walking thru cornfields to get to sweet spots for pigeon etc either my bog standard Dikkies on or my Mouflons when I feel like getting them dirty.

:geek: :lol:

[Dougan]

Always a worry adders...learned very early on in life to make a noise if walking thru tall grass to the nearest river to swim with nought on my feet but plastic sandals.

Now I'm a right wuss when walking thru cornfields to get to sweet spots for pigeon etc either my bog standard Dikkies on or my Mouflons when I feel like getting them dirty.

:geek: :lol:

I'm assuming 'dikkies and mouflons' are types of boot? - I googled them - but only found out that a mouflon is a type of wild sheep....for one minute I was worried that I was going down the 'goat on a cliff' route again :lol:

If it's an area where you're likely to find adders, and you don't want to keep your eyes on your feet the whole time , then boots are a wise precaution....not being a 'wuss' :) - I sometimes tuck my trousers in my socks because of ticks aswell.

[Robin128]

Yes, boots...My Dikkies are steel toe-caps and Mouflons are by Le Chameau...fabulous boots!!

:)