Yes, it was one of those evenings.
Quiddy retrieved the smaller of the two hence the slightly bedraggled fur.



Good but not that good. The iphone camera tends to distort things a bit.

Davey,

You're on a Roll, Buddy - Waidmannsheil!

Nice Bucks, much-o better quality heads than in our Lease here in The Fatherland.

Good to see someone getting stuck into 'em.

All I managed for my morings efforts was a right soaking and the sight of a dog fox sunning himself and drying off on the edge of one of the neighbours woods. The crafty lazy bugger just laid there and totally ignored every squeak I could muster in order try to get him to come down the hill and across the boundary.

I'm going out again Sunday morning.
Can't believe that nobody on Euro AR has killed anything since I posted in April?

I've had 3 since the start of the season and 7 fox cubs 2 vixens and a dog fox in 11 days.

It's too late now that they're dead but that's how we got our jackalopes -Crossing a jackrabbiot with an antelope !

What were the teeth like? Doesn't look that mature.

Well I went out this morning but not a buck in sight.
I was however lucky enought to watch a Roe Doe giving birth.
I spotted her through the trees at about 80 yds looking very hunched as if she'd been gut shot. Suddenly out popped the baby. She licked it for a few minutes and then lay down beside it and licked it some more every time it lifted its head.
I backed off slowly and left them to it.
I feel strangely priviledged to have witnessed the event.

Very cool Dave.

K

Should have got it on video.

Yes, priviledged is the right word.
One can stroll the woods for years without witness such an event.

I shot a decent Muntjac buck last month - I was supposed to be thinning out the last of the Fallow bucks but this chap made the mistake of pootling past me... I was slightly over-gunned with the .270 and a fast 130gn load - undeniably terminal but a bit destructive on these little deer.





A.

Judging by the right antler, he's had a few bits of action.

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Originally posted by Trapper Dave:
Judging by the right antler, he's had a few bits of action.

He was a real battle-hardened bruiser of a buck - judging by his thick neck, facial scars and barrel chest, he was half deer and half Staffordshire Bull Terrier...