moses Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Well it was an early start for me this morning. I stayed at a mates in Wiltshire friday night to be able to go stalking this morning. The alarm went off at 3.45am and I was up and dressed and the kettle was on within minutes. A good strong coffee later and we were on our way out just after 4am. The high seat we were heading to can be very fruitful but, you need to in position very early. The Fallow cross this ride as they return to the wood after feeding out in the fields all night. We could see animals out on the ride as we made our way to the seat but, no chance of sexing them in the dark. Slowly we climbed up undetected and waited for the light to draw in. I could see at least 30 or so beasts out grazing to the left of us so, we were just hoping they would still be there once it got a bit lighter. I pinged them with the rangefinder and the closest was just over 180yds away. I had been on the range the day before with the 6.5 and knew it was shooting spot on at 200. It was finally starting to get to the stage where we could see more clearly and we were both studying every animal looking for prickets. It was easy to see the does with fawns at heel so it was more a case of looking at the animals grazing alone or in 2's and 3's. I noticed two deer with their heads down grazing, I was watching them closely in the binos when one raised its head and I could see his spikes still in velvet. I just had to wait for a shot as he was front on to me. It felt like a long wait but, then after a few minutes he began to turn. I placed the little red dot on his shoulder and slowly pushed the saftey off. At the time I squeezed the trigger he reached his head round to clean himself by licking his right flank so instead of entering his shoulder first the bullet hit him between the eyes just off centre, exited the right eye and through into his body. He dropped on the spot. The picture below is my view to the left of the seat and you can see the deer above lying dead under the pylon. As the first shot rang out all the deer had run into the wood on the right hand side of the ride but, we knew they didn't want to be in there. They would have come past us to get to the bigger wood on the other side of the track where they lay up for the day. We decided to wait for them. It was abot 20 minutes later and we could see a few does and fawns slowly coming out of the wood, there were more deer behind them. As they appeared in 1's and 2's it was easy to tell what they were and it wasn't long before a pricket arrived. He began to bound accross the ride quite quickly, I was following him in the scope and he was just a couple of metres from the safety of the wood edge when he made the mistake of pausing broadside for too long and I sent a 120grn nosler to meet him. He reacted well to shot and tried to run on but, he was heart shot and he didn't get far. In the end he dropped about 10 metres from the first beast. After that we called it a day, all in all a great couple of hours :good: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auquhollie Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 What a cracking bit of ground and what seems like a cracking early morning stalk. Sound like you have a good herd of fallow on it too. Ads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6mmBR Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 A good result and some cracking ground. What 6.5 are you using. I've had good results with my 6.5x47 Lapua. Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moses Posted August 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 A good result and some cracking ground.What 6.5 are you using. I've had good results with my 6.5x47 Lapua. Cheers Dave Hi Dave, I was using 6.5x55 swede. All the best Moses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orka Akinse Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Moses What is the can on the front of the 6.5? Thinkin of getting me a new can, is it an over the barrel type? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moses Posted August 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Moses What is the can on the front of the 6.5? Thinkin of getting me a new can, is it an over the barrel type? Hi Orka, The can is an over barrel type from PES, it's a T12 scout in black stainless. Get in touch with JMS Arms. ATB Moses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varminter Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Well done Moses!!!! A very nice writeup and some good venison for the freezer too!!! The 120 Nosler works well in the 6.5 - 55!!! All the best..................... RAY.............................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemasis243 Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Nice job Moses , thoses fallow look in mint condition buddy some good eating there, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deer stalker Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Hi Moses, Keep up the good work, the fallow look in good condition, what weights did they make dressed. Cheers.......... Keith............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moses Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Hi Moses, Keep up the good work, the fallow look in good condition, what weights did they make dressed. Cheers.......... Keith............... Hi Keith, the larger of the two was just over 32 kilos head off skin on and the other 29.4. All the best Moses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moses Posted August 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Some pics from Fri evening and Sat morn. Shot 3 from the high seat Fri and this one stalked on foot Sat morning. All the best Moses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v-max Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Well done the fallow are are a fine size to work with as the woodland reds are a pain. Looking at your shots you like to anchor them we would lose 15% a shoulder for a shot like that. Some of our game dealers up here started giving us X's our carcases ie 15% a shoulder 30% a haunch etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moses Posted August 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 I was back out after the Fallow sat morn. It was a really beautiful morning with plenty of dear showing but, they were all does with fawns. I was just about to light myself a smoke when a group of fallow burst out of the wood onto the ride, there was one animal standing perfectly broadside on the track and it was a pricket! So here he is And here's the highseat All the best Moses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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