Getting Ready for Roe buck Season

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GETTING READY FOR ROE BUCK SEASON:

I get asked this a lot, they say, “What should I do, I have some land to hunt on, but not sure where to really begin?”  Like everything in life, make a plan, with out a plan you plan to fail!  The same is true with Roe buck hunting.
1.  Go and find where the deer are showing and what bucks you have, the really old bucks will be cleaning their antlers…”old bucks come clean first and loose their antlers first in Oct.”  When searching for the deer, get out of the truck, get your boots on a get walking.  Look where the deer are crossing fences, streams etc…There tracks and fur will always indicate them being there.  By going at different times, you will soon notice what time of the day and along with the numbers too.  When you find these honey holes, mark the area some how, maybe with a piece of plastic tape or something.  so when you are stalking and you see the tape, it will remind you that this is a key spot.
2.  Get to the range, get used to firing the rifle again, I know you  are saying, that the gun shot fine back in the autumn, but you might have knocked the scope, bought different bullets etc. loads of different things might have changed.  Get to the range and fire a few at a target….oh and fire at the target wearing the clothing that you will be wearing when you are hunting…

3.  Get the equipment out, give it a good check and make sure it works.  There is nothing worse than getting out of the car and then going to flick on your torch…dead battery….So check everything and make sure it is in good working order. Not to forget the high seats too.  Make sure they are good and level, the seats are not rotten etc.

4.  oh and please do this work weeks and weeks before the beginning of the season, trying to do all of this the weekend before the big day will not work.

5.  The big day has arrived, and for us in the UK, Roe buck season opens the 1st of April, get out there, enjoy it, take in everything, cause we are so lucky that we have a sport that offers such a great day!  If you get lucky, and shot a Roe buck, give the animal respect.  Now as my uncle always used to tell me, “Now the fun is over and the work begins!”

Christmas Present….

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Over the past couple of weeks we have been taking out customers Fully Guided Pigeon Shooting, Guided Deer hunting and Introductory days to Deer stalking.  So far, knock on wood, things have been going well.  Here is another prime example.

This past friday, the 15th, I met Matt and Ash at the shoot room.  It was around 5:50 am. Lucky for use the weather gods had been looking out for us.  That morning the weather was still and not to cold.  After a quick drink and a safety talk, we was off!  For a mornings high seat deer hunting. After getting all set up and comfortable..It wasn’t even daylight yet and we spotted movement.  A big fat Fallow hind, 250 meters away.  Just a tag to far for us….That seemed to be the morning, by 10 am we had seen over a dozen deer, all just a bit to far out…Not to worry we had a plan, but first things first time for some thing to eat.  After a slap up breakfast we went back to the hunting area, to get a plan together for the afternoon.  The sun was warm, no wind, it almost felt like a spring day.  We decided to ditch the evenings Pigeon roost shooting and deer hunt the rest of the day.  On our way to another high seat, we came across a small herd of Fallow deer.  We stopped the truck, got the gun loaded etc. and we was off.  After after a few minutes of stalking and getting in the right area, we picked the cull we wanted.  The .270 did its job and the cull was down.  We got the Fallow deer in the larder, cleaned up and in the chiller.  We got in our high seat….30 minutes later another herd of Fallow, about a dozen came running across the ride. We waited and waited, but none of the deer came with in range.

At 3pm we was at another high seat, not only does this seat attract alot of Fallow, but also has its share of Muntjac too.  As time progressed, an ostentation of Peacocks showed up.  How beautiful seeing these birds in the wild, with their bright blue throats and their flowering tails, pretty spectacular.  Then all of a sudden a Muntjac trots out into the ride.  BANG and a miss…I said to the hunter, you snatched that shot, and shot over it…then another ride a another Muntjac shows up, the hunter relaxes takes his time and harvests the Muntjac. At the end of the days activities, we had 1 Fallow cull and a Muntjac in the chiller!  What a day, and all this was down to Matts girlfriend for purchasing a days hunting through Sportingagent.com

We are cull hunting deer hunting until the end of March…If your interested, send us an email at info@Sportingagent.com

MY BEST SPORTING DAY OF MY LIFE!

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Those are not my words, those are the words from our latest customer…

What was the day, Fallow and Muntjac deer stalking in the morning and Roost Pigeon shooting in the afternoon!
The days started out great, cold, but dry and very little if any wind…Great for the deer hunting not so good for the Pigeon shooting, the pigeons are later in the day, so First things first.  There are 3 great guys deer hunting this morning.  The first two guys are dropped off at their stands, while we have to go the long way around to our stand, thanks to a fallen Pine tree across the road.

On arriving to the High seat, it was already more or less day light.  As so as we got good and comfortable, we saw our first deer.  A Muntjac on the ride about 300 yards away.  But its still seeing  deer.  Then 4 Fallow came out, then another 2 Muntjac…it was pretty amazing…The hunting gods where looking after us…Below is the email we received from the customer.

Hi Bryan, Hope you got home safe and sound.I know the title of the email sounds a little over the top but I can’t stress to you enough how good my day was with you.The surroundings were fantastic with so much wildlife and even our own air show,what a show with that afterburner going it was great.I spoke to your wife on the phone and told her that on the way home I started to come down from a great height and gather my thoughts about the day.I didn’t tell you but on the back of the wagon after we dropped Paul n Pete I was laughing inside about how cold you looked   he he he he…..  And how excited you were for me that I dropped not one but TWO deer was great to see,shows me that you take great pride in what your doing and ultimately that came out in your excitement,a true professional.
Hey you had a good laugh at my shotgun shooting, hell that’s all part of the fun to rib each-other,just wish you had shot also then maybe I could have ribbed you about a few misses.I would love to do some business with you in the future and hopefully work alongside you in some shape or form one day also.My next three species I will be booking with you and do hope that if we can, we could travel up to Scotland together one day for that great stag that we both would like to achieve in our lives,as I said old man if you find it hard going I’ll carry ya mate  :-)

What a super nice email from a super nice guy, and a good shot to boot!!

We finished the morning stalk with 3 Fallow and 1 Muntjac in the chiller, then in the afternoon, we fired around 75 cartridges!  A morning Fallow hunt and a Pigeon roost shoot for £175 per hunter hard to beat!