Hunting season in full swing yet no hunt reports...

Either everyone is out hunting as I sit at my computer, or people are getting lazy!

Right - tell me what's happening in your neck of the woods and I will take some time to update at this end.

Went to Scotland, shot a red.

They had food and shelter with a bed.

The place was near Holyrood.

It was really good.

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
Went to Scotland, shot a red.

They had food and shelter with a bed.

The place was near Holyrood.

It was really good.

I know we discussed Khayyam last week, but that does not mean you should be attempting quatrains...

Woeful.

Holyrood is where the Queen lives when she visits Edinburgh.

If you shot your first red, I'm expecting more of a hunt report!

Have been out three times as of yet for some real hunting,

some, two fallow spikes has been shot, not by my hand or rifle and some film has been shot during a roe hunt,

we saw 5 or 6 of them but no bucks that presented a shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnavsTcYEsk

Yes that is my smooth morning voice in the end of the clip, in swedish.

I am off to Gotland next weekend for a bit of rough shoot, I might get a mini report out of that.

/Chris

Boggy, it has been very mild here for the past month, and I have not really felt like dealing with a carcass in this weather. MY buddy shot a fallow pricket about a month ago, that is the sum total of the action to date bar a few foxes.

It is cooling down now, I will be out for a scout around tomorrow evening. Might try and get a few hours pigeon shhooting tomorrow.

I've shot a couple of prickets on the stubbles since August.

Fingers crossed, I'll be in a car up to God's country next week to chase the stags. Can't wait!

Then off to Sweden for a couple driven days.

Then trying to guide my father to a decent rutting fallow in October...he's a tough customer!

Did you get my e mail?

Amir Kipling .....

We've been concentrating on the Ducks & Geese; primarily Nile (Egyptian=Darwinian) Geese. Just about everyone has special permission to whack the pests early and a neighbouring Golf Course has an abundant supply that after abusing their brood & nesting local 18 holes for the night - conveniently fly across the street into a friend's Lease every morning to get at the stubble. It's been wonderful for us and not so pleasant for the Geese, they decoy really well and after taking an inital fusilade swing conveniently around again for the second straffing run, it's all about how fast you can stuff another tube full of 12 gauge cartridges into the pump-gun's magazine (manual dexterity a HUGE plus).



Off to RSA next week for a 3 week gadabout with Mrs. Gerry and will hopefully return to a Drive Hunt season in full swing; the 300 Witherbee & 9.3x62 already sighted-in, for Red Deer & Piggie foray's - "Have Gun - Will Travel", so to speak.

I'll miss the main Red Deer rut, which actually requires some colder weather than we've currently had to really get their hormones flowing, Oh, well, there'll be plenty remaining for the Drive Hunt season.

Waidmannsheil!

Hunted moose the first week of the northern swedenseason. My hunting team shot 7adults and 3 calfs. I shot a small bullmoose (my first moose with accubond, very good performance of the bullet small in and out hole hit ribs on both sides).
Now i have hunting problem, my daughter dont want to hunt.

was supposed to be out on Muntjac this weekend, but stalker got scr*wed by the keeper, so no-go.

Out to the borders for partridge in a few weeks, and Moose in Sweden the following weeks, then our season in France for boar and stags will kick off! 3 months of bi-weekly fun !

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My hunting team shot 7adults and 3 calfs. I shot a small bullmoose

N-d,

Waidmannsheil on your Bullwinkle!

I just shot my first antlered(4x3) mule deer with the bow!

Nice

My first deer with the bow. I got a cow elk last year, hoping to get out for elk this weekend(if the warden will let me out!)

Thats an awesome first deer with a bow! Congrats

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
Right - tell me what's happening in your neck of the woods and I will take some time to update at this end.

Well Bog you asked for it - 8hrs old pics




There is a loong story behind it and I will try to put it up later.

i would like post photos from my bear hunt but please tell me how to post photos
went to newfoundland for bear hunt

brass-thief,

Waidmannsheil!

Nice Mulie for stick pitcher; I guess. Can't make out too many details as the photo is @ the size of a postage stamp.



mouse,

Waidmannsheil!

Nice Stag.

Gerry, did you click on the pictures?
First one was taken in the brush on a steep slope, second one taken from too far away.
It still looks good in the freezer though!

I've been up to Dunoon for reds, and have had a few roe around the house along with some ducks and geese. I leave tomorrow for Arnhem Land in Australia for buff, pigs, scrub bulls and some wildfowling, can't wait to get there as I have been looking forward to the trip all year.

Gerry,

Sounds like the duck/goose hunting in your neck of the woods beats our trip north of Berlin.

Keep wacking those pesky geese. :-))

Don

Don,

Yup, we have more shooting across from the Golf Course in 1 morning than we had north of Berlin the whole weekend!

Sam,

Hey Buddy, Thx for the Heads-up. Wow! I can see!
Nice Mule Deer Buck, keep up the Good Work. Also start visualizing UK, Febuary 2012.

A few small cull bucks. Nothing to get too excited about on the home front.
Away is another story and demands a Famous Grouse.

Well summer is a quiet time for me really.

I did have a couple of prickets the other week when down in Glos with Griff (Griff had a couple of Roe Bucks) but nothing that I would write up. However, I have been foxing with the kids a couple of times.

I have got some better pictures on my camera but I can't find the bloody thing at the moment. Hope I've not dropped it in a field whilst out.

Anyway a couple of pics from over the fields at home with my daughter and nephew.

We have had 8 foxes in the last 3 weeks and when the wheat was down we were shooting them off 20 foot high bale stacks which was good fun and the kids loved it. I am using a Foxpro and what we in the family call the twidler which is a battery operated fluffy thing which emulates a small creature in distress.

The last photo was when my daughter and I were out alone and she had the caller out of the back window of the car and I saw a big old dog fox just come out of a 40 acre wood and he sat looking at us face on. I told Grace to turn the caller off and then leave it for 30 secs and try again. We did this 3 times but it wouldn't come closer. I thought I'd better zap it from the car as it didn't look like it was going to play. Shot was 309 yards face on sat on its haunches looking at us. Rifle was Sako 75 S/S in .22-250 with 40 grn VMax going out at 4k.

Wish I could find the other photos. Ayway here we go.





Also thought I might aswell post a picture of a Grey Squirrel she shot out of the patio window last winter with her PCP. Shot placement was perfect (if you look closely you can see the entry just above the shoulder).

I've managed a couple of Fallow so far, for 4-5 outings. Nothing great although I did see the biggest wild buck I've ever seen this year which was nice.

Starting to shoot some partridges and duck although I seem to be letting others do all the shooting. The volumes we shot in August were so high that I really dn't have the desire just yet to go out and shoot much with a shotgun.

I'm out tomorrow hosting some duck shooting then might wander out with a rifle on Wednesday to see if I can pick up another fallow or two.

K

A bit restless as always this time of the year.

Was out tonight and in to this morning with a mate,

did a final round up on the rabbits,

a small bag of 22, 2 hit and not recovered for a full 3 hours outing, sort of tired right now.

/Chris

Hi Bog,

I spent last 26 days hunting in Croatia and 7 in Slovenia with clients from UK and USA.
It was great and we shot quite a few big boar,20+ non trophy boar, 13 roe bucks, a few stags and 5 chamois.

I wish I know how to put some photos because I don't have time to write.

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Originally posted by Jon2:
Well summer is a quiet time for me really.

I did have a couple of prickets the other week when down in Glos with Griff (Griff had a couple of Roe Bucks) but nothing that I would write up. However, I have been foxing with the kids a couple of times.

I have got some better pictures on my camera but I can't find the bloody thing at the moment. Hope I've not dropped it in a field whilst out.

Anyway a couple of pics from over the fields at home with my daughter and nephew.

We have had 8 foxes in the last 3 weeks and when the wheat was down we were shooting them off 20 foot high bale stacks which was good fun and the kids loved it. I am using a Foxpro and what we in the family call the twidler which is a battery operated fluffy thing which emulates a small creature in distress.

The last photo was when my daughter and I were out alone and she had the caller out of the back window of the car and I saw a big old dog fox just come out of a 40 acre wood and he sat looking at us face on. I told Grace to turn the caller off and then leave it for 30 secs and try again. We did this 3 times but it wouldn't come closer. I thought I'd better zap it from the car as it didn't look like it was going to play. Shot was 309 yards face on sat on its haunches looking at us. Rifle was Sako 75 S/S in .22-250 with 40 grn VMax going out at 4k.

Wish I could find the other photos. Ayway here we go.





Also thought I might aswell post a picture of a Grey Squirrel she shot out of the patio window last winter with her PCP. Shot placement was perfect (if you look closely you can see the entry just above the shoulder).

I love seeing pictures with kids hungting.

It is great to start them early.

Leaving day after tomorrow, and my 9 year old daughter is asking when she can come along to hunt!

Yes I agree Saeed

I was indoctrinated at age 4 and in turn I am doing the same with my daughter. She turned 8 years old yesterday and loves coming foxing with me and also loves using her PCP either on live things or plinking. She has been deer stalking with me once but it was a bad choice of day (cold,wet and windy) and she didn't want to stay out that long. But when conditions are good she is full bore up for it.

In fact we filmed some fox cubs in May on the vid cam and the first thing she said to me whilst watching them was "can we shoot them now daddy? "

I had her shooting at 4 but at that age they are too young for them to consistently place a shot accurately but I think it all helps in their development. She also has other interests such as gymnastics but my theory has always been to introduce them to all of these experiences and if they don't like it that's fine. As long as they are given the chance.

But as I say she is very much into it and I am sure she has the hunter blood in her as was passed down to me.

Just one other thing. I very much enjoy hearing from her what she tells her teachers at school when they ask "and what did you do at the weekend" hee hee hee.

Best

Jon

Hi all,

is a bit of rough shooting ok to report about?

Ohh well, last friday after work I had my kit all sorted and the car arrived.

Three of us me, Mike and Kenneth and a dog, Steffie were going to Gotland with the ferry for an all out roug shoot, ie if it´s in season we vill take it.

Arriving late friday night, we did starte fire in the "hule" that is cabin in Gutemål, the local dialect before heading out to check on the state of the rabbit population.

Lamping not allowed in sweden we did see rabbits in real good numbers, record for me, however hunting had to wait until saturday.

The weather being almost to warm for Steffie we did get of to a great start in the morning, she had no less than 7 different rabbits on there feet and we bagged about 5 of them, I swung and missed on one with my Benelli.

The land that we hunt is fairly big and after Steffie got tired we ate lunch and went down to the sealine, lots of geese and ducks,

doing the slow lazy style of open water duck hunting I had donned my waders and found my selfs some nice rocks out in water to sit next to and on.

Well I did manage to bag a few birds, no real flight but still nice and relaxing.

The afternoons are nap time however the ever so restless man I am I took my shottie and a pocket full of rounds, I had spotted a bunch of black birds, kajor around the main building of the farm.

A few hours later and there are none around, I also managed a few magpies.

All that shooting had made me hungry and thirsty.

Afternoon meal and a late nap and we were all ready to go out for a spot of evening stalk for rabbits.

Sure enough, the spot I had chosen did work out, the rabbits keep coming out and me keep doing a great job of taking then,

as a matter of principle, we only head shoot the rabbits with rifles.

Well no less than an hour in to it, about ten past seven, I see this red flash in the corner of my eye,

a fox a male, big one.

It makes a byline from behind the stone hegde that had keept me from shooting,

to one of my fallen rabbits,

well that was the end of it all for him.

That evening we had rabbit and curry stew with rice for supper and some really decent stories to tell.

Sunday and the morning half of monday was the same,

great weather and good shooting. I just love staying there, in all I meet no more than two additional people for the time we stayed on the grounds, the serenty and peace of mind is beyond description.

Being on a bus on the way from a court case now I find myself smiling and longing to go back,

I might retire to Gotland once I an off age.

OK, the ever so important game parade,





Well that was it for that weekend, mooose hunting begins on the 10 th of october here,

and new reports will be posted then.

/Chris

Filling tags - just back from a cull - 7kg fawn with 9,3x62 230gr. GS HV Custom

Congratulations Mouse, both on the deer and the no doubt delicious series of meals you are about to enjoy!

Best,

Amir

Nice one - the other twin was lucky?

Keep them coming folks.

How did you know about its brother? Indeed it was - we tend to shoot one of the twins first and leave single fawns for later if need be.

We have managed to get out to hunt for moose,

shot a few, but this one is the only one worthy of a pic,



no, I had no part in taking that bull but I do have parts of him in the freezer.

Moosehunting in Sweden is by far mostly a hunt for meat.

Btw- how many have had cured moose tounge?

I might get a short story put together out of that one.

Best regards Chris

Fantastic - puts the 2" fallow pricket I shot on Saturday evening to shame! After spending the whole day in the office, I grabbed the rifle and made the 2 hour drive to catch last light. Traffic meant that I arrived just in time to catch the last half hour. A quick walk round, the realisation that I was walking at a city pace and I re-scanned the field I was crossing. A group of white patches turned into a small group of does watching me and stamping their feet. A loud bark from the lead doe put the whole group on alert, fortunately I was able to put a frontal shot into the pricket, who wheeled away, ran 60m and died. It was nice to back the truck up to him in the dark, do a quick gralloch and head back to London.

Boggy- I think that this difference that we can see here between your hunt and the moose hunt is a great way of expressing the huge variety there is in the way of hunts.

The one hunt is were 12 men spend 4 days in the woods and bag at best four moose and at worst none,

the other is were one man, spends a prime hour or two in the field and is fairly sure to harvest an animal.

As I prefere fallow before moose, meat vise and the joy of the stalk or long shot rather than the shot on a driven moose, I know what I ought to do and that is to move across the water.

Or perhaps I should just try to get grounds were there are fallow around.

/Chris

I've shot a young little red stag, a fallow buck
and a nice wild boar last week.
A few days after full moon, with good light conditions at night, it was a very interesting hunt. Saw a lot of animals (red stag, roe deer, fallow deer and some wild hogs.

I used my Mauser66 cal.:8x68S scope:8x56 Schmidt&Bender 12,7 g Blaser CDP Bullet.

Shot distances-
Red stag:130 meter
Fallow buck:40 meter
Wild boar:90 meter
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Best regards:
Andy