Hopes and plans for the forthcoming roe buck season?

I hope to bag a good buck in the rut on a piece of ground I've been growing on for 3 seasons and plan on staying off the fields until the woods have gained too much leaf to see well.

My resolutions are to take no frontal or neck shots, fill out a carcass card for each carcass, contact landowners a minimum of every 3 months and not to bruise a single saddle.....I suspect that I will be making the same resolution next year!

Good luck in the forthcoming season

My hope is to get a nice buck I am after since already 2 seasons. He is mainly on the neighbour�s lease but changes over once in a while to nibble on the clover on our side. I had several opportunities to shoot him when he was only 25 meters into the other lease. I do not regret I didn�t do it but admit I was very tempted. You know that kind of fever, don�t you?

Our season for bucks and yearling does begins 1st of May, only 5 weeks to go and I just can�t wait. I will go very early to possibly catch the hogs when they change back into the woods after rooting at night in the fields.

Spring has started here already, there is fresh green sprouting everywhere and the birds again give their free concerts in the morning. The last few times I was out after hogs I saw a lot of activity of deer so I am quite sure that I�ll get at least a chance on the first weekend.

We don�t have turkey over here but any kind of spring hunting is really nice!

Good luck to you all and Weidmann�s Heil!

I checked the zero on the trusty 6.5x55 this morning. Spot on - despite having run my trailer over the scope the last time I took it out. Duhh!

On the estate I co-manage I have a seriously large number of bucks, mainly yearlings, to assist in the cull of this year. We have to grass around 180 I think but I have yet to see the official cull list. I am still seeing the roe in big groups of up to 25 animals.

On the farm at home I plan on taking out any buck that is not my master buck. Maybe half a dozen between now and the rut.

My resolution is to avoid the back straps. Wasted far too much meat last year.

Here's hoping for good weather.