Andy - welcome to the forums. Sounds like a great week! The boar is a brute, did you weigh him? Stag and buck also very nice.

Thank you!
Yes, it was great!
The boar was without nose (tusks) and guts 178 kg.

We was successfull on the 6th September to.
I told my friend to come to my territory for red stag hunting in the rut.
We went out mornings and evenings and saw a lot of stags (20-30 daily). That afternoon was a bit cloudy and the wind wasn't our favour, so after a 30 minutes we decided to left our stand and went for a stalk.Between soy and cornfields we reached a little forest and turned our face to the wind. Wea heard crush and rut from the trees but have seen only 3 smaller stags.A strong voice came from the edge of the forest.In five minutes we were standing there, in right time to see a good stag coming out from the corn. After scoping I tell my friend to take him. He raised my Mauser and gave a loung shot to the 130 meters tanding stag from the shooting stick. We heared a good bullet impact and the stag went down instantly. After a few kick he was up again and ran a 100 meters falling down at the end.
So not only the trophy but the hunt was great too.
The trophy weighed 8,8 kg and become a silver medalion.
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It's easier so:

Wow Andy, that´s one heck of a stag!
Congratulations

Wonderful stag and it sounds like an exciting hunt.

Marvellous stag and boar! Congrats!

Last weekend i had my daughter with me on moose hunting for her first time she has been afraid to follow me to moose hunting until now. After an half our a dog starts barking and i hear the slaming noise trough the forrest and understands its a big moose bull(crown hits trees) we see the bull coming towards us and walks about 40m from us.
Its big beetween 18-20 points crown its the firt time i have been so close to a dream bull during hunting.
After the bull and the dog passed my daughter asked "why didnt you shoot dad?" ,we only shoot mama moose and calf i answerd her.
Then she asked it it only one father moose left?

After the hunt i asked her if she want to follow an other time. and yes if she dont have to sit and wait to long.

Ran into this little fella yesterday. Plenty of grunting going on here and I think he mistook me for another buck, because he came towards me when I made some noise in the undergrowth. At 12m even I couldn't miss.

Well done mate, nice buck!


Now make some time for a load development session now that you've got one under the old belt.

Let's go and get that rifle sorted one evening this week too.

Just back from a few days Sika stalking with some Irish mates in Wicklow - thank God I wasn't paying for it as it was pretty eyebrow raising finding out what the Danish guys staying with us at the Glenmalure were paying for Sika stags!

I managed to stalk into a couple of nice 8-point stags and to cull a few more smaller stags and prickets too. The weather was kind, the company good and the stags were coming in strongly to the call - what more could you ask for? Can't wait to go back for hinds and a spot of goat stalking in January.

Adam.

Nice stags Adam. What rifle is that? Looks like a Sako Finnbear to me.

The number of sika in Wicklow is unreal. Glad you got to experience it in the rut.

Yes - 1974 Sako Finnbear L61R in .300 Win'Mag'. Excellent calibre for pumped up Sika stags - very terminal at longer ranges on the open hill but not quite as damaging as the .270W at close quarters.

This is the third year running I have stalked Sika in Wicklow - this trip was just stags but usually we combine it with some Fallow stalking on some lovely forestry ground in Tipperary. When the sun came out mid week last week, there must have been 200 deer in front of me - the downside was that at least 190 of them were across our boundary on National Park ground.

Any updates lads?

I'm taking Ghubert for a crack at a fallow doe tomorrow and will report back. Maybe he will write us one of those wordy stories!

I had a nice little Sika stag two weeks ago. Range was let's say, rather further than I would like but I had been blank for a month.

I shot a Fallow pricket last Saturday evening no more than 150m from the car. Range about 40 yards, bumped into him on a ride, I was quicker on the draw...

We butchered him last night, he was the heaviest pricket I have ever shot, I don't have scales but he was nearly 50kg in his jacket.

This is my 2011 season red stag:



and this is my female chamois 2011:



and this is last week in River Ticino:

I like the chamois a lot! Is it easy to shoot cormorants legally in Switzerland?

Had a nice day out on Saturday. Amir didn't get lucky, but I did...

I really like the antlers of that Fallow
Congrats!

Wow! Nice fallow
Is the rut still on?

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Originally posted by Anders:
Wow! Nice fallow
Is the rut still on?

Nope, not here anyway. He was grazing quietly with a similarly sized buck on the ride when I found them.

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
I like the chamois a lot! Is it easy to shoot cormorants legally in Switzerland?

Yes in Canton Graubünden only wit dog, in canton Ticino no bag limit for shoting Cormorans and the other bird you making one specialy permit the name in italian is "caccia bassa" (bird hunting permit).

Did manage to cull a roe two weekends ago,



First kill for the 6XC. It was a most uneventful hunt but still one I will remember well, I have had the rifle built ground up, to my spec.

Was out with a mate, Mike saturday two weekends ago, we did manage to spot, film and take two roe, a buck and a doe at a bit of ways away.

He was very happy about this.

/Chris

Nice - how far were the shots?

Boggie,

my shot was at dusk a mere 278 meters,

Mikes two shots rung out at, dare I say,

well yeahh, at 438 and 442 meters.

Well within the range of proficiency for him, his rifle, and our ability to range, read wind and other factors for the day.

Both roe were struck centered in the shoulder, as intended.

/Chris

Love that foggy countryside along with that Fallow buck.....any interest in some fabulous sea duck hunting and all the lobster you can eat in trade?

PS....I've a case of London Pride in my garage as well.

Norton,

We'd love to have you with us, talk to Kiri, he'll fix you up straightaway!

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If Kiri won't take you up your Trade Offer - I will!

Boggy, that is a nice buck, but I suppose if you poke enough holes in bracken, you will eventually shoot a deer...

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Originally posted by Gerry:
Norton,

We'd love to have you with us, talk to Kiri, he'll fix you up straightaway!

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If Kiri won't take you up your Trade Offer - I will!

Yup.

Swap Kiri the cash you would have spent on gas and booze and come hunting!

In all seriousness, you won't find a better deal for Muntjac, it's mate's rates as we call it.

Gerry is a good sort, take him hunting whatever you do.

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you won't find a better deal for Muntjac

Amir,

They're Fallow Deer, silly boy, not Muntjac .....

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Originally posted by Gerry:

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you won't find a better deal for Muntjac

Amir,

They're Fallow Deer, silly boy, not Muntjac .....

Quite right, my mistake.

I must have been thinking about the headgear on Brian's stonking(tm) buck from two years ago..

Can I write about a hunt to come?

Ergo it´s more of a hope/dream rather than a report!

I am about to go to our grounds this weekend and even though the moon is fading/low I hope that I will be given a chans at a shot on one of these fellows.



They are about 15 kilos heavier now then on those pics and are just about the right size for eating,

any objections to this projection of a report and I will remove it.

/Chris

Waidmansheil Chris, you'll tag a couple for sure!

Chris, good to see you back active on here buddy.

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Originally posted by Claret_Dabbler:
Chris, good to see you back active on here buddy.

+1 mate

I was out yesterday with a couple of friends from the states and New Zealand. We spent the morning walking up a couple of dozen pheasants over the new spaniel and the odd duck/pigeon as they materialised.

It was the first time I had shot over the new spanner dog and I was pleased with how she performed, even though the old advice that beating with a spaniel is the best way to ruin it, seems to have some merit!!

We managed to get a couple of dozen birds in the bag between us and missed a few before stopping for a pint.





The afternoon saw us head out for a look for a Fallow. I placed everyone out in their places and took Bruce out for a walk. We saw deer immediately in the wood but couldn't get a safe shot on them. I carried onto an area of the woods where we always catch the deer and as soon as we got there we started seeing deer moving into the area.

As I watched the first few walk past at 120m I heard Bruce saying to me "there's a bloody dawg mate" (can't type a kiwi accent!!).

Me: No it's deer...
Br: I can tell the difference. It's a dog.

I'm too busy looking at where the deer are going before I realise that there are two lab type things coursing the deer around us. They send the herd one way , then the other and I'm trying to catch up as the odd single comes running past us at a range of no more than 7-8 meters!! There were deer and dogs everywhere and I'm stood there listening to some daft woman calling out is some silly high pitched voice to her dogs. That was it, the Mediterranean in me came out and I started shouting in the middle of the wood to the invisible dog walker...

I'm not sure who was more surprised, Her, the deer or my Kiwi guest who's used to hunting about 4 days walk from the nearest neighbour!!

Either way, once I assured Bruce that all was not lost and that for the fourth time I could not let him shoot both the dogs, we decided to stay put and see what transpired.

Within a couple of minutes I had located the herd in the woods and could see the back line of a doe at about 90m between the trees. Through the binos I could see it was a clear shooting lane so I tried to explain to Bruce where she was. After a few minutes we had her located and a single shot from the 260 dropped her in her tracks.

The deer had the last laugh though. Given he'd shot her and was carrying my gun and sticks I picked her up and put her over my shoulders to carry her out of the wood. Without realising the exit wound was on my shoulder by the time I'd got to the car I looked like someone had attacked me with a chain saw!!

We got back to the pub and agent Pink had rolled over another Fallow doe so that made for a nice brace of deer in the chiller.

All in all a nice informal day out with some friends and a few items added to the game book.

K

And 'Agent Pink' is still bloody knackered after having dragged that big bitch up the hill using a thin piece of string. Thanks for a great afternoon Kiri.

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And 'Agent Pink' is still bloody knackered after having dragged that big bitch up the hill using a thin piece of string. Thanks for a great afternoon Kiri.

Bill it looks like you took the neighbours tame one out for a walk on the lead and gave it a heart attack!! Are you sure there's a hole in it?

Did manage to get out this passed weekend,

a few roe was spotted, spoiled a go at a fox, fogg on my lens,

did manage to sleep a night in the "vakkoja" next to the feed lot for the boars,

no boars came in, but I still had a good evening sitting there.

We did take a few jackdaws and other assorted black birds around the farm houses but that is really nothing more than proper house keeping.

This coming weekend I have an invite for driven game hunt, fallow, boar, moose (calf) and mufflon,

if the hunt is one third as good as I am being told it will be great,

still as I do enjoy being in the woods not taking game it´s still all the same.

This is all I got for the weekend.



Still better than nothing.

/Chris

Driven game is a real mans game,

well I did manage to measure up, @ 97 meters and in a trott, a fat one 58 kilos,

the dogs no more than 80 meters behind.

In all more than 20 fallow spotted, two moose, a lot of wildboar, finaly I did see a huge red that was not in the list, to bad, but hey I did get pulse.

I had ten fallow in three lots come buy my stand and or spot, heard the chatter of boars tusks,

and a fellow shooter did take a decent fallow.



Typical outlook from a ground stand



We did not stay in that house but one behind it, the "mannors" on the swedish countryside are really a great thing.



Not that it really matters but on the drive home I did make a very deliberate wrong turn and manage to pass by the farm I grew up on,

man I wish I had the finances to buy that property.

/Chris