Three weeks left!

Since the Tjernobyl incident you can hunt for roe along the east coast of Sweden during may and the first half of june. Well actually the north - eastern coast, from about Stockholm and north. This due to the high bequerel levels in roes shot during the autumn in these parts of the country. There is, however, a discussion going on about allowing roe hunting all over the country in springtime.

Buck season where I stalk them (not allthroughout Spain) starts on the 15th of April.

Hopefully in a couiple of days after that I'll have some nice pictures to share.

montero

Fear not 1894 has been busy on your behalf and has 4 roe buck carcasses in the chiller as we speak. A reasonable buck was stalked and shot this morning. If you wish for an appetiser I shall post photos tomorrow.

Yes, first four yearling bucks have also been taken. For our American friends this is the best time to catch up with the young bucks as they are still with the Doe, or in the vicinity, and the mature territorial bucks have not yet driven them off and scattered them.
For my fellow Brits - have you had any pressure or comments from your landlords to increase culls after all the press articles on the 'need for a more organised national cull of the deer population'?

Regards

Sparrow

I hope to shoot a nice Buck or two during the second week of May. If I'm successful pictures will follow.

Still chasing tree pulling fallow. Did have a nice Red Tuesday morning...had camera on site but battery flat!
Saw first swallow yesterday 7/4/04.
Haven't seen a roebuck for a month or so; I have to ration them to 1 or 2 a month from May to August so not actively looking yet.... more challenging when the bracken comes!

Yesterday mornings firing position - in a months time the hedges have grown too much.

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My little helper, waiting in the wings,

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The resulting buck,

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The haul so far,

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I shoot bucks in velvet in woodland due to the damage caused by fraying velvet on saplings.

Have a good season!

Weidmannsheil 1894! Nice pics. Love that dog of yours, send her (or is it a "him"?) my way if you tire of her!
- mike

1894,

Top stuff!! Looks like you've been busy there.
All decent bucks too.

I had a feeling you'd come up with the goods!!

FB

We still have to wait until May, 1st. Roe deer are very active these days but usually have all but dissaperaded when season opens. Their calendar it seems is as precise as ours :-(

how do you post a picture?
I have a nice one of a buck I shot last week.
cheers Roebuck222

Took a yearling roebuck this weekend. Nothing to write home about. Nice weather (mostly), nice to be hunting again!
- mike

No luck so far, I saw a couple of females and a good yearling buck which still has to grow 3 more years. It seems that the moon makes them more nocturnal at the moment than usual.

The big one I am lusting after barked in my back on two opportunities when I left the tree stand at dark...

I went out last weekend, to a friends ground on his invite. On the first evening we saw 3-4 bucks but I settled on a nice stalk along a wood and down a ditch. I peeped over the top of the bank and bucky boy was nowhere to be seen. So with the rifle on the Bi-pod, I eedged it out into the track and rolled out behind it. Sure enough there he was sat in the grass. Wanting him to stand up I started whistling... Nuffin!! Waving the sticks in the air did nothing, as did my shouting and hollering, (some of it quite abusive by htis point ). After 15 minutes, He stood up and reached for a bite of tree ... Number one was in the bag at 220 paces The thing was that what I thought was a ditch behind him was a steep sided bank to the river covered in nettles. He managed the four steps it took to hurl himself over the edge and collapsed. I suppose he had the last laugh when I ended up swimming!!

The next morning was stunning. We stalked 2 bucks passing them and 2 Muntjac up for a third Roebuck we heard barking. Down the side of a wood onto the wheat I had the choice of 2 Munties and the Roebuck. 115 paces from the sticks sent Bucky boy to the big wheat field in the sky.

It wasn't until I got him home and cleaned up that I realised that he was half decent. I don't shoot a lot of Roe but he was my biggest to date.

Result.... One happy fallow buck and two not so happy Roebucks!!!

FB

Weidmannsheil, Fallow Buck! Sounds like a lot more exitement than sitting on a stand!
- mike

Nice pictures

I'm off to Wiltshire on Saturday for 3 days Roe Buck stalking, and local reports are very favourable at the moment. Will post some pics when I return.

Guys.

Just had EXPRESS over for a few days stalking down here in Devon. Everything went well and some nice hunting was the result.

We managed to cull a Chinese enroute from the Airport, before spending a really good few hours looking around the deer park at Woburn. Some really impressive stock - the antlers on the two year old Reds have to be seen to be believed!

The next few days raced past - early starts, late finishes combined with the obligatory debriefs in the Pub all took their toll. By the end, we were both pretty much asleep on our feet. However, we managed the Chinese, three nice Roe Bucks and some fantastic memories.

His best buck to date. A truly awesome running shot taking a Bronze standard Buck dead in the air at full gallop. A perfect evening stalk in thick woodland that allowed us to get past a doe...browsing in the open only 15m away. Then setting up for a Buck to visit his scrapes...only to have him approach from behind - to catch us flat footed at 3m!

Damn, it was fun just to be there!

He ambled off back to Italy, dicing with the excess baggage allowance from hell. I still don't know what he said to the girl on checkin - but by my reckoning there is no way that you can get a pair of Pere David antlers, two shoulder mounted Gold Chinese Bucks as well as a nice Muntjac shoulder mount into a 15kg allowance!!!

C'mon Mate - let us other poor mortals know the secret!!

A great trip - can't wait to get together later in the year for a hunt in Northern Alberta. This time we are hoping to be meeting up with Bison, Moose, Whitetail and Wolf. If half of that comes to pass - it's gonna be one to remember!

Ian

Hi,

this morning I finally also shot a one year old roebuck after a week with no hunting but a lot of rain:





Nothing special, but the freezer was empty and yet hopefully more to come.

All roebuck hunters so far a "Waidmannsheil"

Erik

Waidmanns Dank! :0)

Our Roe still haven't changed into their summer coats - really looking quite scruffy at the moment. Will try to get EXPRESS to get his photos up soon.

Regards

Ian

Ok, here are the long awaited photos;





This was the deer that ran into my bullet.





Two great hunters with the said deer





Same deer again, aint these photos great?





this was the first deer of the hunt and a very nice one at that. (there is a rule somewhere that says if you don't have a hat, your friend will lend you an embarssaing one for free...





Here is the cull buck we took to finish off.





Now, we had ourselves some awesome stalking, and for a day or so the sun even came out!





Ian, many thanks, I'll be looking forward to your next trip over here!

Had the good fortune to take this nice buck on arable ground on Soms./Wilts border Friday morning. Also heard the cuckoo briefly. A bird whose song seems to get rarer with each passing year. Hope the photo, comes out; it will be a first if so!
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A vivid example of how bucks moult according to age. This is the first summer coat buck I have seen. I have also just seen the first roe fawn.

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By 5 am today my American friend and I were in the woods up here in the Highlands. He and his kids had been seeing Roe on the edge of these woods all week long. Now it just happens that I have permission to hunt here, so maybe, just maybe, we could break his Roe duck this year. There we were at the bootom of a ride cut through the forest for the electricity pylons, it is as if someone had this in mind all the time and moving electricity was just a by product of woodland stalking. Anyway, there we were, him getting his annual innoculation with flying teeth that pass for insects up here, the birds singing, the sun almost shining and with no breeze to speak of. It was then that I got my first glimpse of what could only be the ears of a deer over the top of a bush coming directly at us. I touched his leg and indicated the direction. He grasped the 243 even tighter, he has been desparate to take a deer with this round he firmly believes that unless it was killed with a 30.06 it is not dead just fainted. Back to the hunt, first he heard, and then he saw and then he was as close as he had ever been to a Sika, I had forgotton to tell him that what I had seen was a Sika hind with last years calf.

I bet that lady don't come on to the dance floor when it is her turn. Never mind he enjoyed the morning, I shall take him lamping for rabbits with a silenced 22 rimfire, he likes that.

John

BTT