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Another trip to Scotland
Topic Started: 25th April 2010 - 08:02 PM (41 Views)
mudman
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Had another successful trip to my ground in the borders. All the ingredients for a good trip were present, the sun shone, the midges were not out yet, but the deer were! The sheep were off the open hill and on the grass parks for lambing so the deer were coming out of the woodlands to feed on the moor so I saw plenty about which would normally had been spending all their time in the trees.

Shot a dog fox on the first morning, discovered him feeding on the remains of a deer. That is fives carcasses we have found so far (including twin kids together), there must be many more hidden in the trees.

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Had to wait until the evening for my first deer, this young lad picked just the wrong time to come out of the trees for a feed. I was crossing a burn before stalking up a small glen when he stepped out just 60 yards away, I froze and he did not see me. He ran off at the shot and an examination of the site showed alot of green. Gave it a bit longer than normal but the dog found him straight away, two yards under the trees but twenty yards away from where he entered. It was a good chest shot through the lungs but somehow the rumen was extruded like a grapefruit through the exit wound. Guess the vacuum from the bullet dragged it through the diaphragm and out of the chest cavity.

Next morning caught a doe with two buck kids heading back into cover after feeding on a riverside paddock. Selected the spiker and left the four pointer. Dropped him to a heart shot (he ran ten yards first), then mum and surviving kid started feeding again. Decided one was enough, especially with the high mortallity this winter and mum had done a good job bringing both kids through the bad weather, seemed a pity to ruin all her hard work![

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On examination he had a bad tear down the inside of a hind leg and a smaller scratch on the other hind leg. The wire fences had almost claimed another victim.

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Edited by mudman, 25th April 2010 - 08:05 PM.
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may have been another bucks antlers??
well done anyway and its nice to be able to walk away mate top marks.
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