Morning, it's a beautiful January morning and
this morning we're in Lincolnshire and we're about to help good friend Ben Smith with
this fallow doe cull. We've seen plenty there this morning we've seen muntjac,
we've seen some fallow does, way off they were about 750 yards on the rangefinder. So, we're in a highest at the minute
and we're just having a look to see what's about. It's a beautiful morning.
You see in-between the bushes and in the trees, that's where the thermal really comes into its own.
I know it's there, I can see it moving.
It just keeps picking its head up and putting its head down.
Just looking around, but I can't see it in the undergrowth through my binos at all.
Okay so, the morning sitting in the highest is coming to an end. They're coming to pick us up
in another couple of minutes and we saw a couple of fallow, we've seen three
muntjac does and a little muntjac buck, copious amounts of squirrels and a fox
so if I'm an eventful morning we're just haven't had to pull the trigger this morning.
So, we're gonna go and have a bit of breakfast now but later we back out
we're gonna do a bit of stalking and then we're going to be back in another highseat
until last light, so all is not lost I've say it's been a great morning we've
seen lots of wildlife and there's no better place in the world than sitting
in the wood and just watching it come alive in the morning from when it's dark,
it's great.
We've now shot a fallow doe, hopefully. We just turned around and there was a group
of three fallow does stood right behind us so we took one out. We had to wait for
them to clear so I can get a nice clear shot. As soon as they fanned out and I
took the back one. We've give them about two or three minutes now so get out the
seat and see if we can find her.
Here we are, lovely.
Okay, there we go brilliant morning. We just come in about 15-20 meters into the
wood line and just scan the wood line with the thermal saw the heat source
just lying in the wood come straight to her. Dead happy, shot was good heart and
lung right where I did her. I've just heard vehicle on the track coming to
pick us up so we'll drag her out we'll get off into him get her in the larder.
Well, you can see where it's pulled it to on the track there were three stood there.
Okay, so we're into the second part of the morning now and we're going to do some
woodland stalking. This is Richard, my good friend and he's going to be our
stalker for today and he's going to guide us where we're going and we just
come into this woodland block here now and I think we're gonna be boogying around here.
So, we'll crack on and see even get some more fur on the ground.
We've just stalked into a group of about
20 fallow does. You won't be able to see it because it's really tight and the
shooting lanes appreciate in this wood are very, very tight but I've taking out
fallow doe they're on the far left-hand side she presented herself, she'd seen us
which was looking on two straight on I've shot a straight in the neck and
she's gone straight down. Just gonna give these others a couple of minutes get
out of here and then we'll go and have a look at what we've got.
But, good stalk, good shot.
Once you get a shot, you've got to pretty much take it
because there stood looking at you so you've got a clear line of sight at you
like they had they'd seen us, but she had 150 grains of SST in her neck, which she
didn't like much.
Well done, thank you very much.
Well that was pretty epic, we took the one in between the trees
down there and we spotted some others we try to stalk on them, but they got wind of
us and probably a little bit uneasy just coming up started to stalk up here and
they hadn't gone far there were 176 yards in front of us on
the ride up there and I shot one we went off to the right and then the others
must have turned as that one went down and came back across and I shot the last
doe out of that as well. So, in the matter of 3/4 of an hour I've shot three
well chuffed. We're just gonna have a look at these guys up here
now and get into a ride and we'll see what the rest of the day brings.
So, we've moved woodland now we've just come across into what you can see the
pine trees. We've just shot another one, a little pricket that time. It was a
tidy shot chuffed a bit so now that is 4 in the morning stalk and one at the
high seat this morning so five in total so far so I'm having a brilliant time.
I'm just going to give you a quick rundown of the kit we're using today. I'm
using my Blaser R8 Professional success in 308 and on top of that I've got my
Hawke Frontier in five to thirty times fifty scope I'm also running through
that is Hornady 150 grains SST's then I've got my binos which are Hawke 10 by 56
Endurance model, really good use these in Alaska. Sturdy well-built and I've also
got my rangefinder because we've got a lot of long rides here today which is
the LRF 900 model which goes out to 900 yards been really handy we've also got
the Pulsar Helion xp-50 which is come in very handy today
because the vegetation is quite thick. The lights just about to drop down now
and we're going out for the afternoon stalk and probably sit in a high seat
later on so that's what we're up to you next.
I invited Steve down today to come and help with the fallow cull.
As you can see there's a good population to fallow. We're not
touching any of the muntjac now, we've shot what we're going to shoot for the year.
Same as we're not shooting any fallow bucks as well. Just concentrate on does
and pricketts mainly. As much as it's great stalking we're also her to do a job.
We're to best of the deer population fill the cull figures in for the year
which we're doing fairly well today. We're on the final stalk now see how we can
get on this evening.
So we're back and what an epic day it's been
I think we've accounted for nine fallow in total with the ones that we've got
tonight on the way back home. I just liked to thank Ben, me old mate. Were had a
cracking day. We've seen a lot of deer fallow and muntjac.
It's been absolutely brilliant and the weather's just turned horrible now so
only one thing to do now is go home.