There you go with your rifle mate.
Let's see what we've got then.
She's a beauty. Yeah, I'm really happy, it's been a grand morning. It's a very productive wood here
now there's been plenty of sign we've been down before to check the feeders
and whatnot but this doe's in great condition and it plenty of meat on those
launches her so she came through here came through here on this ride you can
see there's not even much frost on that way they've been coming through and I've
seen they've been nicking straight through and away down through there and
into the wood had a good look at them with roomy BIOS both and I thought yeah
I'm going to take the doe out there was no follower or anything like that.
The buck was nice, it had some nice antlers
just above his ear, he was a tidy buck.
I thought you can walk on by my friend and we'll have you for the lauder. Perfect I
just had a check of the feed bin on the way down in it's empty
yeah so it looks like they've been rattling it around a little bit yeah as
you can see that there's a tree a little bit further up that's been chopped off
already that came down in the storm, but you know that's that's one of the things
that's having a bit of wood you there's always something to be doing a
little bit more work to do so I grabbed hold of her we will take up the top and clean her out.
So it's been a pretty productive morning I've seen a nice buck, I got plenty of
action on thermal, I left him I was hoping to see a doe that's what I was looking
for this morning it's good to see the buck there maybe if he's kicking around
little bit later on we might take him but you've seen a huge number did on his
I've seen plenty deer I've seen three bucks two does, managed to take a doe which
I'm really, really happy with also seen a roe doe skipped across the ride in front
to me so yeah it's plenty of action in this wood down here it's real good so
we've had the fun stuff this morning Steve's got a deer down so as far as I'm
concerned it's been a successful day already
but with managing your own ground of course there's all the housework to be
done so we need to go and fill up the feeders with beans that holds the
animals and helps draw them into areas that are safe to shoot there's also a
few trees that come down during the recent inclement weather so a little bit
of trimming a little bit of housekeeping a little bit gardening and then we'll
leave the ground to settle down a little bit let everything calm down we'll go
have a coffee somewhere and they'll come out early doors afternoon coop let's get to work.
So the great thing about properly managing your woodlands feeding hedge
trimming making sure that everything is where it needs to be as you get to hold
good numbers of deer now there are slots and trails all over this woodland and
here it's like the m6 for muntjac but an awful lot of traffic and awful lot of fresh traffic as well.
So we've just come to another area of woodland where I was up
this morning now this housekeeping that needs doing around the tree stand
there's a lot of small twigs and branches that have grown into my normal
arc of fire so they need trimming down but while we're here it's a great
opportunity for Steve to use thermal my pulsar Hylian xp-50 which is an amazing
bit of kit I'm gonna send him out with this tonight of course it doesn't
replace the need for field craft but it gives you more time you can see an
animal approaching through dense undergrowth stuff like this can be very
difficult to see through even with your binoculars but the thermal allows you to
spot the approach of an animal which allows you to get into position quicker
and then hopefully take a more humane shot without rushing it so that's the
idea and it's almost like seeing in the dark it really is it's an amazing bit of
care so Steve's going to take a point how he's got the rifle just in case you
see a doe or maybe even the buck on the way through
you never know and if there's nothing around we'll do some trimming gonna have
a coffee and then get set up in the seats a little bit later on right see
you're on point.
Okay so it's this afternoon but back in the high seat it's the same high seat as
a shot from this morning and took my little doe from we were going to sit in
the difference II but the wind has changed again and this is the only
favorable seat for the wind really it's blows straight in the face I've got
three rides that can shoot off here so hopefully we'll see something coming out
in a minute or two I've got the Pulsar thermal so that's gonna help me first
time I've used one so I'm quite excited to see how that performs later on when
it starts going dusk and hopefully it'll give me the edge so it's just the
waiting game now I'll sit and take your time and see what pops out
Perfect end to a really really good day I had doe this morning and I've taken
out another doe tonight right at last light came in to where the food there
was the beans were so perfect really happy with that we've seen three more
deer tonight got some on the therm also that should be good footage for that but
I'll get this little lady ready for the chiller before
the last light goes so really chuffed been a really good day so well I've been
out doing a little bit more homework stacking up beans and checking high
seats and looking at cameras it looks like the wild man it's had a huge
amount of fun this evening we have four it's been absolutely brilliant we've
seen at least three more deer grass another little doe right at the end so
yeah it's been the perfect end to a perfect day are these different deer
from the ones you saw earlier on do you think or maybe the same ones just coming
up oh I'd said it was hard to tell because one was the fleeting across the
ride like that and the other one was a bigger doe across the bottom of the ride
so I'd have said that there that was definitely a different one because I saw
bucks this morning and the one day that I shot and then that little doe right at
the end up there by the feeder say who knows who knows yeah walking around date
doing our housekeeping and clearing the trees that fall and all that sort of thing
we've seen a lot of deer saw some signs yeah there's a lot of deer paths you
know there's clearly a huge amount of animals here yes now we fill those feed
bins I think they're gonna concentrate the way once again but it is great to
see that if you put the time and effort in if you feed if you take care of your
ground you can go do it you reap the rewards yeah you really do tell me how
you got on with the thermal well it is first time I've used one when this deer
came out across the top and I'm got it on the thermal and I'm recording it and
it's all coming down and then I'm getting a it's just crossing the road
right in front to me but I was doing that one up there
chameleon yeah which was quite funny but she wasn't
stopping to give us a shot sir she just jumped straight into the hedgerow I'll
give her a bog witch who weren't stuff inside no it's good position to be a
when he got so many deer they were all over the place you don't know which one
it was just that time of night when it was it starts tell me about the
thermal you know how did you find it did you does it allow you to see
animals that maybe you wouldn't have seen give you a bit more time maybe on
the shots or what how did you find it it worked for you or do you see the
benefits of it being normally you see you've got your ride it's out the ride
it's across the ride it's into the cover it's muntjac are always moving yes they
didn't know they don't want to stop and get shot and like I say the one that
crossed the ride I picked the thermal up and I could see meandering through the
brambles where normally you wouldn't have seen it again and if there's an
animal there you'd be able to pick it up and watch it come out and then take your
shot it gives you that it gives you that extra 30 seconds that you wouldn't have
if you picked it up as the undergrowth is in front of them
yeah and they're in the shadow you just don't pick out that movement you can't
see the animal you know so you know in the daylight it's fine because you've
got shadow and you've got sunshine but that last 15 minutes you know it can be
a bit of a yeah what I've been using mine earlier it all it is really is
being able to see
where you can't normally see yeah and then just allowing yourself okay put it down
I'll get ready for the animal you can pick the right shot you can then spend
your time judging the animal is that the one you want to take or is it not the
one you want to take you can either like let it pass up like I did this morning
otherwise you literally go out five seconds to make that make it stop and
then walk again yeah if you look at how many hours you spend out here and the
value of your time yes of course thermal is expensive but then you got to say
well this gives you an increased chance of success you can manage your deer
property also see deer in the undergrowth that haven't actually
stepped out into the yet so you can get an idea from non-members as well it's
very good management tool yeah so it's not death field cropped as we know it
Wildy's enjoyed using his tonight I have allowed him to harvest a doe about
the size of a large hair and now I think you owe me a coffee makes a world again
you know we've enjoyed it thank you very much been good
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