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Over the last few months you've hopefully seen my driven hunt in the Czech Republic
with Cervus UK by kind invitation of our gracious host, Count Leonhard Coloredo-Mansfeld.
We've brought you the morning drive of day one.
As well as the afternoon drive.
Two shots, really nice shots. Okay, thank you, thank you very much.
Now it's time to bring you the morning of day two.
So, I've got a fair selection of equipment open to me but today, there's really only
one tool for the job. This, is my Blaser R8 Professional in .300 Win Mag. Now, it sounds
a bit big. The .300 Win Mag is just a 30 cal, and we're shooting these 180 Grain, Hornady
InterLocks. Now we could be shooting some pretty big pigs today certainly some red hinds
and there's nothing wrong with having a little bit of oomph behind you. Now we've hunted
here in Dobris before. Some of the shots can be reasonable long, maybe 150, 160 yards,
so it's worth having something that has a little bit extra legs on it. Plus, Blaser
R8 has this super fast cycling action, straight pull, straight out, massive area open at the
top of the action, great cartridge ejection, and fast reloading. So, fingers crossed, this
is going to help us bag a few piggies today.
We partake in the traditional opening ceremony, and are welcomed once again by our gracious
host.
Then it's time to head out into the forest to take our positions. Everyone's silently
praying for a busy high-seat. My good friend Owen Beardsmore is jovial as always.
I'm dropped off in a fairly dense section of forest and I find a small high-seat up
against a tree.
I've got a pretty good view from here and can see a fair distance in every direction.
Now it's just a matter of waiting for some action.
Over to my right, a small group of fallow does dart into the thick stuff, but with only
their backsides in my sight and the beaters near by, I heed caution and let them pass.
Then, somewhere ahead of me, I see movement. The group are making their way across the
forest ahead of me.
I fire, and the fellow doe goes down as the other does continue on their way.
She's down, a young fallow doe. One of the leader of the group, one of the ones that
came through here, I can't shoot that way because I can't see who's behind the other
side of those trees. She came straight across and offered me a gap between two trees. I
then took the shot, she ran about 30 yards, and then just fallen straight over. .300 Win
Mag is a big bullet for a fallow doe.
Okay, now let's wait and see what else comes.
Almost immediately there's a group of deer in the forest ahead of me. This time, they're
reds. A nice young stag is leading his group of hinds across the forest.
I get a hind in my sights and fire. With such dense forest all around me, it's not easy to get a good
line of sight and even more difficult for the camera. But it's a good shot and the hind
has gone down.
I wasn't expecting those. There's a group that have just crossed in front of us, there's
a half decent stag in there as well. Couldn't get a shot at him, he meandered across, a
group of hinds with him, took an older looking hind, slightly skinny in the body. The trees
are so thick here it's really hard to get a shot. Took her high in the shoulder, but
she wobbled. The whole herd has gone over there. If you can hear there is plenty of
shooting going on. So I'm pretty sure we've marked her now, all we need to do is make
sure to tie a ribbon off in the direction, so the beaters know the direction she's gone
in and they'll go and pick her up. But I've lost her, I can't see where she's gone but I know that she's hit hard.
We wait a little while, and all seems peaceful.
Then, I can hear the sound of small feet trotting through the brush.
I fire instinctively and the first is hit hard. The second is still charging through
the brush. Another instinctive shot takes a second one down too. Those two pigs were
steaming through the thick stuff and due to their small size, they only offered a very
small kill zone. But by never taking my eyes off them and the perfect handling of the Blaser
we manage to take them both.
Those are the perfect size boar to harvest. Even though they appear small now, they will
soon be fully grown and tearing through the crops, and damaging the ground until they
reach a pretty hefty size.
So that's incredible. We knew there were pigs coming, we could hear the dogs barking, they're
still barking now so there could be more coming. Saw the two pigs coming through, literally
got a split second, take the shot, reloaded and then took the shot. Both of them are down,
one thirty yards away, one forty. We can hear the some more coming now. That's the great
thing about shooting this Blaser, it's so fast to reload, .300 Win Mag, doesn't take
any prisoners and the Zeiss 2.5-10, I've managed to crank it right the way down giving me a
great field of view, very fast target acquisition and as soon as you're on them you know you're
gonna put that Hornady 180 grain InterLock straight in the right place.
As the drive comes to an end, I'm very eager to see just how well I've shot with this Blaser
R8 Professional. So I head into the thick stuff to find my two boar.
So here we go, here's the first one I shot. As you can see, so perfect, behind the shoulder,
absolute cracking shot. This one unfortunately is a young sow but it's only a small one,
so it's only the big sows that we're not allowed to shot, the small ones we can. As you can
see the entrance wound, perfect, fell on the spot and look at all of this. It's a phenomenal
wound, cracking entry wound, a lot of blood splatter here just destroyed its lungs. So
yeah, really pleased with the shot.
This is obviously where I took the shot, or this is where the shot came through. There's
a great blood trail. Yeah, look through here.
Here.
And here we go.
So what we've got here is another young sow, still in great shape. Twelve yards, twelve
metres from where I originally shot it. In great shape. So as you can see that's its
liver shot there. So, little bit further back than I'd like, probably about six inches further
back. The great thing about pigs is their diaphragm comes right to the back of the ribcage,
not like a deer that's further forward, so when you shot a pig towards the back you're
still either gonna get the liver or certainly get two lungs. So, as you can see the ribcage
comes here. So that's still one shot, one dead pig.
I'm so impressed with the shots on the boar from the Blaser, that I'm keen to see the
shots on the deer.
Okay, so here we have my hind, I'm sorry, my doe. That fallows doe's in great shape.
If you have a look here at the size of this entry wound, that's a pretty big hole. Now,
she's about 120 yards now, must have run no more than ten or twenty yards before she went
down here. But, perfect place on the entry wound and an absolute cavernous exit wound.
Massive trauma, massive wound channel, didn't need a blood trail, this animal's gone straight
down. Incredible, great bullet performance from the Hornady InterLock 180 grain. So,
let's get this one back.
I collect my fallen game and tag them for the beater to collect.
However, my red hind was a little further away and there's a protocol I need to follow to help the beaters locate
the fourth fallen animal. So what I need to do now is get one of these ribbons, and then
just tie it to a tree that lets the beaters and the dog men know when they come through
where the deer then disappeared. Then they can set the dogs on it and work out from any
game they found, what species it is, what location it is, where it was running when
it was shot and which chair it was shot from. So there's a pretty good chance that they'll,
firstly find it, secondly be able to realise that it was me who shot it. So, there's still
a bit of cleaning up to do.
While I'm waiting to be collected, I decide to help out the beaters and dress out the
game myself. But in doing so, I find some even more impressive news.
Ah here, here we go. I didn't even to cut it off this time. This is the top of the heart,
completely destroyed and totally detached which is why it is where it is. Now there's
massive trauma in the front of its ribcage, but this is the bad boy we're looking for.
Perfect heart shot, right at the top, and that one's inch perfect once again.
I collect together my game and head for the road where Owen is eager to find out what
sort of morning I had.
Ian, smiling! You look like you had a good time! What's happened then?
Well there was quite a bit of action in there. There was something come through all the way
through the drive.
I got this especially for you.
Well thanks mate.
What do you think?
That's very romantic of you. You can keep it.
Now that's exactly how we need to be shooting these pigs.
Fantastic.
It was detached. Same with the fallow, this one's a little bit further back, a liver shot,
still the stomach was intact. Just goes to show, even on a pig, you can shoot it from
quite far back the diaphragm comes right to the back of the ribcage, it's not like a deer
where all the vitals are pushed forward. So there's a big target on them. Both of them
went straight down, this one went straight down where it lay. There was a lot of trauma
in the front shoulder there, and the front of the ribcage. Now this one, made about eight
or nine yards, massive blood trail. Didn't take as long to find them, so.
Well done. Let me shake your hand.
I'll leave it.
I meet up with my fellow hunters and by the impressive number of sprigs in their hats,
it appears they've had a successful morning all around, and it's been great fun too.
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