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Lil-Rokslider
Hey guys, Not much of a story teller but practice makes perfect
Got out in the hills for a nice afternoon hunt on Saturday.
Park up at one of the local roads ends about an hour's drive from home and headed into the Ruahine ranger's.
Heading to a side creek and some slips i had spotted on a previous mission into the area.
Had to do quite a bit of trimming and cutting on the way in, Old handsaw had a workout with lots of windfall and damage from high waters this winter as I made my way up Stream.
After almost 4 hours of crisscrossing and working my way up the river i was at the side creek, The going was tough so i pushed up onto a leading ridge and working my way up i spooked a yearling or small spiker didn't get a good look.
Found an old campsite, and marked it on the GPS for a return overnight trip.
Not too far from the Campsite I spied a gap in the trees and went over for a look, Was about 6:30pm and could see a deer feeding out on the slips. Sat down and pulled out the binos and see there is a group of young red spikers, One quite big in velvet and looking promising.
Quick range and they are feeding at 290y - 350y away. I have a bit more of a look around and see a much bigger stag up high, he was in the clouds and couldn't get a great look bit body side was impressive. He was almost 700yards away and could see he was in velvet.
Only had my phone and couldn't get a good shot of the larger stag but he was well above this group of 4.
Double cheeked the range on the lower spiker 290y and dialed up my 16" 6.5cm Tikka 4.7moa, Took a couple of dry fires, and sent a 143eldx, The Shot went in just behind the shoulder and smoked the offside shoulder. He crumpled and tumbled down the slip, as he came to a rest I sent a second shot hitting him in the chest traveling 3/4 down his body and exiting through the last couple of ribs. Eld x even at very slow speeds factory ammo at 2530fps sure does some damage, dragging a large chunk of lung out as it exited.
Took a bunch of meat off him for some summer BBQs
Pack up and head back to the ute, Side creek was very narrow and overgrown and made for a tough pack out, Finally getting back to the road end at 11 pm.
I most likely won't get out again until the new year with work but let me know if you want to see a few more stories from over this side of the world.
Cheers
Shane
Got out in the hills for a nice afternoon hunt on Saturday.
Park up at one of the local roads ends about an hour's drive from home and headed into the Ruahine ranger's.
Heading to a side creek and some slips i had spotted on a previous mission into the area.
Had to do quite a bit of trimming and cutting on the way in, Old handsaw had a workout with lots of windfall and damage from high waters this winter as I made my way up Stream.
After almost 4 hours of crisscrossing and working my way up the river i was at the side creek, The going was tough so i pushed up onto a leading ridge and working my way up i spooked a yearling or small spiker didn't get a good look.
Found an old campsite, and marked it on the GPS for a return overnight trip.
Not too far from the Campsite I spied a gap in the trees and went over for a look, Was about 6:30pm and could see a deer feeding out on the slips. Sat down and pulled out the binos and see there is a group of young red spikers, One quite big in velvet and looking promising.
Quick range and they are feeding at 290y - 350y away. I have a bit more of a look around and see a much bigger stag up high, he was in the clouds and couldn't get a great look bit body side was impressive. He was almost 700yards away and could see he was in velvet.
Only had my phone and couldn't get a good shot of the larger stag but he was well above this group of 4.
Double cheeked the range on the lower spiker 290y and dialed up my 16" 6.5cm Tikka 4.7moa, Took a couple of dry fires, and sent a 143eldx, The Shot went in just behind the shoulder and smoked the offside shoulder. He crumpled and tumbled down the slip, as he came to a rest I sent a second shot hitting him in the chest traveling 3/4 down his body and exiting through the last couple of ribs. Eld x even at very slow speeds factory ammo at 2530fps sure does some damage, dragging a large chunk of lung out as it exited.
Took a bunch of meat off him for some summer BBQs
Pack up and head back to the ute, Side creek was very narrow and overgrown and made for a tough pack out, Finally getting back to the road end at 11 pm.
I most likely won't get out again until the new year with work but let me know if you want to see a few more stories from over this side of the world.
Cheers
Shane
