I'm assuming a number of you are running a busy schedule of hunts so please whack up a couple pics or a story if you have time. I'll do the same.

Plenty boggy

Keep well

Had some nice days out with a shotgun over the last week, but managed to miss the whole fallow rut with tendonitus which was a bummer.

We do have 40 or so roe does and the same in goats to take off in the next couple of months so we'll be getting stuck into those in a week or two and making a start with a few friends.

Hope to have some pics.

Sounds good - I've been doing my bit for the fallow doe cull lately, which has gone well so far. Plenty of acorns and chestnuts this year means very fat animals. Will stick some pics up later.

Wonky horned muntie - rta perhaps?


Big old doe - rolling in fat from the acorn mast.


An undersized pricket shot during the rut.


One reason the pricket was so tiny - a broken and re-fused rear leg.


My latest toy - and first shotgun - classy!

Boggy,

We're doing O.K.

Well, actually I'm a spectator in comparison to Winkelmeister who is absolutely On Fire this Drive Hunting season.

I Scratch and Claw (it ain't pretty) to down one; only to find out that Tommy's in double figures at the end of the day. His Body Count this season is spectacular.

Not too many Pigs in attendance but lots of Red Deer.

Boggy is that the Berretta?

I have the same one and it throws slugs very nicely. Adam want to take it to Tunisia to flatten pigs so there is a debate as to who has dibs...

K

Gerry,

Pass on a hearty Waidmannsheil to Tom the next time you see him.

Can't understand how you let him get past you in the "game down" department.

Don

It is a Beretta. I shot yours when you lent it to GH and liked the fit of this model.

Shooting some clays this Sunday then out to shoot a mess of pigeons and crows with Amir.

I hunted in Belgium last weekend and got a nice class C red stag. It was a beautiful hunting area. Will post some pictures maybe later.

Heading to Czech rep and Slovakia
Boar, red deer, mouflon, pheasants ... In December
Let's hope for a bit of luck. It's hunting right?

a little some thing from Portugal

Congratulations on a truly fantastic trophy meu amigo!

Hey man, I'm glad that all went well for you. Portugal really is a gem of a destination.

I'm desperately trying to find time to go do a mouflon hunt with the guys but not sure if the diary will open up for me.

K

Yes, Portugal is great! I am headed back in February and will talk to Adam about setting up a couple nights for some boar. My wife took some great sight seeing photos and I will try to get some up here soon.

Gerac - stick some pics up - I haven't seen a Belgian stag very recently. How old would a class C stag be?

Eny - that is a magnificent red deer, congrats. Do you know how much it weighed? Nice rifle too - single shot?

Out at the weekend, Dad shot 2 fallow and I dragged them. A good result I guess!

Been getting into the does,a memorable incident where I shot a doe and could have had a good few more were it not for a spectacularly inconvenient branch overhanging the high seat on a particularly perfect crisp autumn morning stands out as the pick of the crop so far.

Could it be your choice of caliber ?

That trusty rusty walking stick ........

Should try 223 some day for deer

There are plenty of GOOD. advice over in small calibers forum

Two driven hunts last weekend, met Gerry, got one red deer, four fallow and one fox. Saturday's hunt was spectacular, saw lots of game, one white fallow buck, we got over 200 creatures between around 100 rifles.

Boghossian, no, the head was not weighed, but I was told it was field scored 171.26. score or no score, I was thrilled. Thank you about the rifle, my favorite, a Blaser K95 30-06

Eny - I meant the carcass weight! I am a dirty market hunter at heart...

DUK - that drive day must have sounded like a revolution! How do you rate fallow as a driven hunt quarry?

Boggy

Those stags are averaging about 120kg to 130kg.

The occasional one will go 150kg+ but not many.

They are still a big lump though as the Iberian sub species don't carry the mane of the English or Scottish animals. I don't think they are a heavily pelted either.

K

Thanks Kiri. Yes Boggy, I understand about the meat, it just wasn't on my mind as I couldn't bring any home,only the head. I'll get a few more photos up soon.

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
How do you rate fallow as a driven hunt quarry?

Hello Boghossian, fallow deer are beautifull animals, I like to hunt them under all conditions, driven, stalk and highseat and besides, they usually are diurnal, active during the day.

To hunt them on drives is similar to red deer I guess, only not as wiley. They need to be pushed only very slightly, to keep them from running full speed.

Just received the following from my gf.

It's that time of year...

Some good hunting recently in the UK with Sika etc however this is different...

I was fortunate enough to be on holiday with my girlfriend in Mauritius during November, so not wanting to waste the opportunity to hunt, I decided to arrange a couple of days after Rusa stags. I was lucky enough to take three beautiful stags. Certainly worth a think if you are looking for a beautiful beach holiday with partner etc but also love your trophies / hunting.

Enjoy.








Thanks

Alex

Very nice animals Alex! The first one looks very gnarly. Was this with 'Le Chasseur Mauricien'? A good friend of mine took a huge stag with him last season.

The doe cull continues apace here - these three were taken on a sunny Saturday morning in Kent.

Not much to brag about trophy wise, but a little something for the pot

The two fallow spikes was taken i southern Sweeden in September (and no, it´s not the same buck, but they was taken by the same high seat )
I got the roe buck here at home on my neighbors farm.

Spent a week up in Northern Norway hunting moose, and we got two, but none stopped in front of this grumpy old man....

Been on a number on red deer drives on a nearby farm, but no luck so far.

I shot 4 Arabian Oryx males two days ago, using a Krico 22 WMR rifle and Federal Classic HP ammo.

All head shot in our back yard.

We had to shoot them as we have an excessive number of males.

Sorry, I did not take any photos.

Is this the first time Saeed has not taken any pictures?

Some recent pics from UK trips:

End of season cull Roe buck on a late summer's evening




Cull Fallow doe with an injured back leg. Quite common to see sadly, car smash, caught in a fence or dog attack.


A blank evening in good conditions


Salt licks put out ready for new antler growing


Scottish wild boar - Full report http://forums.accuratereloadin...1621043/m/3421074491


One of three Roe Does taken last weekend

Nice pictures both.

gbax - was the fallow doe's leg infected or did she go for consumption? Which species uses the salt lick most? I find the fallow on my ground ignore most salt licks.

arild - those look like some good eating fallow. Sounds like a good high seat to know about!

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
gbax - was the fallow doe's leg infected or did she go for consumption? Which species uses the salt lick most? I find the fallow on my ground ignore most salt licks.

It was healed pretty well and went to the game dealer.
The salt licks are funny, in some areas all species (including fallow) hit them hard but in other they get largely ignored. I suspect it depends if they are deficient in certain minerals in some areas vs another.

Best
Guy

In the end of the summer i was looking for a muntjac hunt in the UK, but unfortunely all the dates i had in mint where full,
so i decided to go hunting in Indonesia on wildboar, the plan was to go in october, wich is late in hunting season, because its beginning of the rain season.
I went to Jambi (sumatra) , wich has a lot of palm oil plantations wich are very attractive for the wildboar.
The hunt was done by spotlighting in the night, and stalking in the morning when the wildboar would leave the plantation and go back to the jungle.
The trip was very succesfull, here some results.

Sika Stag in October.

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Fallow pricket - early am stalk


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It's a problem leopard shot a few days ago in India by a friend

This is what started it all

Saeed if too graphic please delete accordingly

But the antis should see what leopard do as an instinct

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Originally posted by londonhunter:

And the story behind this?