Hi,
Here are the results of a long weekend in Ireland where I helped bring down the numbers on my cousin's letting.
The total bag was 8 deer (2 more fallow given to farmers), 8 rabbits, 1 fox, 1 pheasant, 1 snipe and some fishing. Also followed the Waterford County foxhounds for a half-day, but they were not as effective as a .270 Blaser!

Hey Bog,

well done. It looks like your concerns for the timing on your trip was pretty much unfounded!!

Great stuff. Where abouts in Ireland were you stalking?

I'm heading over in a few weeks myself for a couple of days in county Sligo chasing snipe.

Can't wait.

FB

bos,

Well Done, great effort for the lease and the photos are good, too!.



You mention in your text two Fallow given to farmers, cannot help to wonder as the two antlered deer appear to be Sika Stags?

Don't want to appear like the know-it-all, really, just asking?



My aging eyes are letting me down, is that you with the Fox? If so the wood on that rifle looks VERY nice! The flash obviously did it justice.

Hi guys,

Fallowbuck: the sika were shot in Kerry and the fallow in Wicklow.
I think you will find the snipe shooting very satisfactory. I flushed 10 odd snipe in a short walk around the farm. While lamping, we flushed many, many woodcock. In addition many parts of Ireland have wild pheasant.

Gerry: the two stags on the left are sika, the pricket and the hind on the right are fallow.

In addition I shot 2 more fallow hinds that were given to locals before we left the lease. This was just to create goodwill as we already have hunting permission. They didn't make the picture.

Both rifles pictured are .270s (1 sako, 1 blaser) I used the blaser to shoot 5 of the deer and my cousin used the sako to drop 3 hinds with 3 shots. What a dragging session!

It was a great weekend, although the boggy terrain made extracting the deer from cover very difficult. I became more and more picky with my shots on the second day!

Bog

Nice one and thanks for posting the pics etc

Seems to been a nice weekend Boghossian
I can clearly understand the comment about bogs in the Wicklow Mountains.
Was in Ireland this summer and had a bus trip from Dublin to Glendaloch by way of the mountains. Lot of boggy terrain when you get up in the highest parts, but we saw quite a few deers on the trip so I recon that this is prime stalking area.
Still green and lush on the Emerald Island I see

Biggest stag taken on letting this year.



As you can see, this is no competition to the Hungarian fallow trophies. For pine plantations in Ireland, this one is a wall hanger.
He is getting shoulder mounted.

Bos.....

Thanks for the level response, glad you didn't interpret my post any other way, 'cause nothing else was inferred! You're also spot-on since my fading eyesight didn't pick out the pricket second from right.

I understand the boggy dragging bit, please read my Piggy tale of the week prior, I know what you're talking about.

Very nice Fallow Staggie for anyone's wall, the trophy is for you to remember your hunt; not to impress the uncleansed & unwashed about how large it/they is/are!

Good close up of the Blaser, nice all around - hat's off to you - Waidmannsheil!

One last jab , the Stag, the Rifle - super . The bloke looks a little peaked and needs a shave, too!

Gabriel


Congratulations. A splendid weekend, the one to be remembered.

Stunning, getting 2 sorts of deer there, something I have trouble to imagine. Add roebuck (not muntjack I think) and You can say GB is the land of plenty.

I note one SNIPE, a bird I dream of.

You was in Paradise, ..........a wet paradise it seems?
Congs again!

Jean, a "wet paradise" is a nice description of Ireland.

We have Red, Sika and fallow deer. No Roe or Muntjac (yet). In certain areas we seem to have a lot of balck fallow.

If it is any good to you, I shot two "becassine" with my GSP last Saturday morning. Hopefully I will manage to shoot a few woodcock (Becasser ?) over the next week.

Regards
Brian