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This weekend have i been hunting close to Dorotea with my friend Per-Erik.


We were skiing 100m from each other then a bird flew over me i stayed and waited for PE so we could go after it together. As we started PE saw a Capercaillie in a top of a pine about 500m away across a clearcut, and so one more and a third one. We approached them through a frosen peatbog with some trees we saw one more Caper at long range. After 150m we reached a second clearcut still 250-280m to the closest bird we both started to crawl out on a little open hill we had two capers aware of us but still sitting in the tree tops with stretched necks. We shot at the same bird after a count down, we hit it.
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On the approach to the fallen bird i saw a Caper in a top of a pine, i sat down on my knee and against a tree and shot it about 160-180m away.
We shot the first one at 220m.
As it fell.

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With my rifle.



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Those pics don’t work.
 
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Sorry i have fixed them now.
 
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What rifles and calibers were you shooting? Sako originally marketed its little 7x33 for capers and fur seals.
 
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Thank you. Very nice! Can't wait to chase both of those!
 
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So thats what they look like Wink

Congrats ! And thanks for posting. Great birds!

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I use my Tikka .308w with competition bullets, my friend P-E use his CG M96 6,5*55 with aparture sight and fmj military ammo.

Yes the 7*33 are perfect for hunting capercallie with a dog, other popular calibers for hunting them with a barking dog are 22hornet, 222r, 22 savage. For the longer range specialized tree top hunting are 6,5*55,223r,.243w, 6,5-284, 6mmbr, most hunters do like i do and use their moose rifle like .308w, 6,5*55, 3006, 8*57, 7mmRM.
 
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I'm guessing .308 isn't the caliber to use if you plan on putting it on the wall. Big Grin
 
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Yes sometimes i hunt them with my brother and his German Vorsteh, pointing dog.


.308w with FMJ are not so bad.
 
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We had very nice weather it had snowed 3" on a hard crust of old snow on the first day it was -3c. We saw five capercaillies in a small area that day and shot two of them. The second day it was sunny and -10c first we saw a bunch of Black Grouse but wasn`t fast enough to shoot at them, then we had a capercaillie sitting in dense forest but didn`t saw it after it moved until it flew at close range. At last we saw a caper sitting in a treetop 330m away we stalked it towards a dense forest but it had moved and it saw us first. We sa tracks of wolverine and otter.
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When shooting where do you aim on the bird?


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High in the bird.
 
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