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If I were to write this trip up it would pretty much be a repeat of past trip descriptions and texts. So maybe just a short exec summary and a few pictures.

Three days of early mornings and evenings in a 7.000 h State Forestry block in Brandenburg Germany targeting roe buck. The hunting was well organised by the State Forestry with a good infrastructure, hundreds of high seats and stands and cold rooms and meat processing facilities.

I took my Rigby Highland Stalker in .275 Rigby and my Dan Fraser in 7x64, shooting Hornady SSTs. Both eye catchers and great rifles to shoot! The Dan'l Fraser is a 1980s Black Ilse build on a Mannlicher Schoenauer action, with German set triggers and the classic butter knife bolt handle. The Rigby, I purchased some 12 years ago and use it mainly as a deer rifle in Europe and Scotland. A wonderful rifle to carry and shoot!

There was pretty good game numbers with red deer, fallow deer and roe deer. I saw a number of roe does and a few yearling bucks, the latter I could have shot but I choose not to. But I did take a fallow yearling buck with the 7x64 and was able to take the venison with me. (Thats the picture with the white smudge just before the tree line.)

A fun, inexpensive, short hunting break in some wonderful countryside in Eastern Germany.

Waidmannsheil!


Ps. I had my Border Terrier bitch, Jinja, with me for company.









































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Well done Charlie!

What would we do without quiet in the woods
Best hobby/life passion you can have

Thanks for the report and photos - it looks like you had great weather. Were the red deer and fallow deer in velvet?

I like your taste in hunting rifles.

I, too, own both a Rigby Highland Stalker Mauser and a Dan'l Fraser Black Isle M-S rifle!

Those hunting grounds look like a fine place to put them to good use!

Beautiful rifle, K9 companion, thanks for sharing!

Well done! Seeing your MS graced by what looks like a Kahles reticle-movement scope gave me a warm fuzzy

Assuming it is one and is mounted correctly, that scope should give great field of view, good field blending and be tougher than anything made for decades.

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Were the red deer and fallow deer in velvet?

Jeff hi, The young ones were pushing velvet whereas the old stags not yet. Still early days ...

Was a wonderful large forestry block that you could easily get lost in!

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Charlie
Wonderful looking rifle