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Gotta make time and effort sometimes to open the experience to novice hunters

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Originally posted by shankspony:
My partners daughter asked me to take her for a hunt this evening. We headed off late afternoon to some clearings. As we approached them a nanny and kid could be seen quite close. We crept in to 20 yards and could see other movement in the swamp grasses which were about 3 feet high. About 50 yards out a billy jumped up a bank and turned towards us. Sidney loaded her 6.5 Grendel and after a bit of discussion on best shooting position, took a lean on her knee and put a round right into the base of his neck where I instructed. It was a pretty shot and pretty result.

I told her to take the lead up the clearings, and on a small clearing up off the valley floor she whispered there was another billy. She took some time with this shot as she just didn't feel right with her lean on a tree, but finally it tuned side on and she had achieved a good rest and it was another fairly instant bang flop.

It's what i like to see, no rush. No pressure to pull the trigger. Just, if it feels right, do it.

We went further looking for more but the shots had cleared the goats out. As were were heading home a goat snorted from the bush. We stalked in quietly trying to find it, and as we came up over a rise I caught movement 20-30 meters away. Focussing in, I realised it was a fallow Doe quietly mooching its way between the trees. 10 meters behind it a very small fawn raced to catch up, stopping close to us to wonder what these intruders were. We were never going to shoot, but it felt damn good to catch them with their pants down in a classic bush stalk situation.