What a night!!!!

[john]

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Yesterday was a day I'll never forget.

I took the oppertunity to go stalking, much to my better judgment as the
rain was pouring, thunder crashing and lightening illuminating the
evening sky like fireworks.

I was out looking for fallow prickets, and by 8:45 nothing had shown and
I was drenched to the bone, why do we do such things to our bodys? ( I
was son to find out!).

As is always the case, just as your about to leave, something somewhere
will catch your eye and in this case, what caught my eye was three red
stags wandering down a path towards my shooting position.
This was too good to be true, the last stalk of the season and red stags.
It was just okay to shoot, just the right side of twilight. Okay, the
stags were well over four hundred yards off, but there could be a chance
here. Basically this is cull shooting, the chap who owns the land
has set a cull number and as it happens, there is an abundance of prime
stags for reasons best left undocumented.
These beasts just kept coming, 300 yd, 200yd, 150 yd and finally after
what seemed an age, 100yd and settled down to graze.
I was in the prone position, aimed and fired. This stag, ran straight
for my position, possibly the only cover available, the beast kept
running, running and then all of a sudden, 20yd away he dropped.
The other two not really knowing what, where or when backed off, giving
me time to re-aim, find my mark and shoot, down went the other fellow!
That was it for me
Both royals, lovely beasts )) what an end to the season.
Well by the time I gralloched the two, it was close to eleven and I
still had a half mile dragg back to the car. Twelve o'clock came and
went, one o'clock came and passed me by. It was a quarter to three
before I got in to bed and I was up at six thirty!

What a night!

John

 

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John <john.p.young*removethislittlebit*@ntlworld.com> wrote in
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> This was too good to be true

Lucky sod!

Spent another evening freezing in a high seat. Then a movement caught my
eye. That old stab of adrenalin!!

A sodding rambler. Or someone from neighbour houses investigating my
silouette! Are they in season yet? I nearly fired one off into the sky just
to encourage his departure.

Nothing much after that. Decided to have a final look around with the
binoculars before packing up as the light had almost gone. And what do I
see? Two roe heading down the fence side, one stopping to look back. Oh, I
know exactly what happened. The wind dropped and my turning created enough
scratching against the tree trunk to alert the roe.
Damn! Damn! Damn!

Why do we do it indeed!

Derry

 

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Derry Argue wrote:
> John <john.p.young*removethislittlebit*@ntlworld.com> wrote in
> news:3cni6fF6noenaU1@individual.net:
>
>
>>This was too good to be true
>
>
> Lucky sod!

Two days' booked off work, which will be filled with the glorys of
butchering

>
> Spent another evening freezing in a high seat. Then a movement caught my
> eye. That old stab of adrenalin!!
>
> A sodding rambler. Or someone from neighbour houses investigating my
> silouette! Are they in season yet? I nearly fired one off into the sky just
> to encourage his departure.

I know the feeling, it's one thing if nothing turns up, but another and
even more annoying if you have bloody people roaming around. Sure way to
annoy!

>
> Nothing much after that. Decided to have a final look around with the
> binoculars before packing up as the light had almost gone. And what do I
> see? Two roe heading down the fence side, one stopping to look back. Oh, I
> know exactly what happened. The wind dropped and my turning created enough
> scratching against the tree trunk to alert the roe.
> Damn! Damn! Damn!

DAMN big time.
Hang out some root veg for them, leave it a couple of days and see if
they have had a nibble, then sit up the seat.
In a couple of areas I have made a permanent mineral pit, and it seems
to be working well. In fact one location has a roe ring right around the
pit.

>
> Why do we do it indeed!

Coz we love it!!! ) a day or two after that is!

John

 

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John <john.p.young*removethislittlebit*@ntlworld.com> wrote in
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> Hang out some root veg for them, leave it a couple of days and see if
> they have had a nibble, then sit up the seat.
> In a couple of areas I have made a permanent mineral pit, and it seems
> to be working well. In fact one location has a roe ring right around the
> pit.
>


My supplier of contraband grain came up with about half a tonne of mixed
corn. A wierd mix too! Some barley described as "malted" was as black as
treacle. Anyway, I put out a few heaps of wheat that looked relatively
normal a few nights ago but I don't think it has been touched, except by
the pheasants. Too much fresh grass about. I think the amount of damage
might convince the forestry department to let me plant up some patches of
rape. Seems I am getting the weeds cut.

My mate puts out sheep feed blocks all winter and he reckons they work a
treat.

I am now wondering if the roe will attempt to cross the fence at that point
again tonight? Maybe that is too soon. It does seem to be a favourite
crossing spot as there is cover both sides and these still warmish evenings
are definitely best.

>> Why do we do it indeed!

Masochism? It's either roe stalking or self flagellation while sitting on a
heap of broken glass. But as I'm really into this suffering thing, it's a
high seat every time!

Derry

 

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The message <3cni6fF6noenaU1@individual.net>
from John <john.p.young*removethislittlebit*@ntlworld.com> contains
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> Well by the time I gralloched the two, it was close to eleven and I
> still had a half mile dragg back to the car. Twelve o'clock came and
> went, one o'clock came and passed me by. It was a quarter to three
> before I got in to bed and I was up at six thirty!

> What a night!

Indeed, and a memorable way to end the season for you. So I guess it's
back to poisoning cockroaches and mice now, is it?

--
Kim Sawyer
Sutherland
Scotland

 

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Kim Sawyer wrote:
> The message <3cni6fF6noenaU1@individual.net>
> from John <john.p.young*removethislittlebit*@ntlworld.com> contains
> these words:
>
> <post snipped>
>
>>Well by the time I gralloched the two, it was close to eleven and I
>>still had a half mile dragg back to the car. Twelve o'clock came and
>>went, one o'clock came and passed me by. It was a quarter to three
>>before I got in to bed and I was up at six thirty!
>
>
>>What a night!
>
>
> Indeed, and a memorable way to end the season for you. So I guess it's
> back to poisoning cockroaches and mice now, is it?
>

Just finished the butchery and I have plenty of steak, all I need now is
a sunny day and an excuse to crack open the BBQ
The freezer was working over time to keep up with the new additions.
Two days off then the weekend, then it's back to ants, wasps, rats,
mice, cockroaches, pigeons, flea, bedbugs, flies.... "what-a-job!"

First thing Monday, I'm spraying for ant's, then I'm off to a house to
"Smoke" bomb the attic for blow flies. Then I guess it's back to the old
routines for rats.

John

 

[john]

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Derry Argue wrote:

> My mate puts out sheep feed blocks all winter and he reckons they work a
> treat.

They do, depending upon the environment. What your relying on is the
deers need for minerals when growing antler, pregnant or recovering from
the rut and if the deer are lacking in a mineral then the animal will go
to great lengths to replenish the missing substance.
I can not say that my mineral pits have got me any more deer but the
deer are attracted to the area. Although I haven't put any pits out
where deer were not numerous.
IIRCC a friend invested in some very expensive deer blocks, as used in
deer farms but he didn't find a big difference or certainly nothing to
get excited over.

I keep getting conflicting reports, thus my guess that it depends upon
the available minerals and vitamins in the environment.

One thing I did see work, and it worked really well during the rut. In
fact I would say that it should be banned under the deer act.
The use of urine, female urine whilst on a period that is!
It works, trust me. I'll not give any names, basically this chap had
half a bucket (god only knows what his misses must put up with) and he
chucked it under his high seat (there was a bit more to it, wind
direction and the like), we both retired up the high seat and waited.
15 minuets later a stag and he was a big stag wandered by, stopped and
literally ran towards the base of the seat. The stag was going ape,
scraping, rubbing his antlers, honestly the stag didn't know what to do.

I'm going to try it out on the Roe rut and combine a call or two and see
what happens. Mind you, last roe rut I almost got run over by a buck but
thats another story.


> I am now wondering if the roe will attempt to cross the fence at that point
> again tonight? Maybe that is too soon. It does seem to be a favourite
> crossing spot as there is cover both sides and these still warmish evenings
> are definitely best.

Why not, well ummm, make a more suitable crossing?
We did this for the fallow in some forestry and the deer loved it.
Now it's a well and truly established deer path, with a high seat next
too it

John