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- Mar 4, 2015
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Took a mate who is just getting into hunting to a new spot in the Ruhainies, North Island New Zealand for an afternoon hunt. He is having trouble finding his uphill legs but with some grit and pushing on through, we made the top even with his heart rate reading 190 setting his watch alarm off.
We worked our way up a ridge line glassing the nearby slips, We watching one spot and he said "Deer". I sit down and he talks me into the spot and its a very red rock. But alas a deer was feeding through some bushes just below it and as he is getting set up behind his new tikka another one pops up above the red rock.
The deer is standing broadside at 290y and he dials and gets in some dry fire practice before making his shot.
It shot goes low and the deer runs off, We can't work out what went wrong but the deer runs off unharmed with maybe a splash of dirt hitting it.
We move to another slip and a spiker comes out feeding his way along, its at 280y and i see he is inputting angle into his app, bingo I had not told him the tbr I gave him accounts for angle. meaning he had only dialed half what he should have 1st time round.
i missed the shot on the spiker trying to get the camera to focus but he sees it tumble down the slip, we bash out way down and after 30min find it in a heap of bush. Shot was perfect right through both front shoulders and stopped just inside the skin on the offside.
Drag it out grab some photos and start processing it.
Load of meat in his bag and we scramble back up the ridge and back to the truck, home just at midnight.
We worked our way up a ridge line glassing the nearby slips, We watching one spot and he said "Deer". I sit down and he talks me into the spot and its a very red rock. But alas a deer was feeding through some bushes just below it and as he is getting set up behind his new tikka another one pops up above the red rock.
The deer is standing broadside at 290y and he dials and gets in some dry fire practice before making his shot.
It shot goes low and the deer runs off, We can't work out what went wrong but the deer runs off unharmed with maybe a splash of dirt hitting it.
We move to another slip and a spiker comes out feeding his way along, its at 280y and i see he is inputting angle into his app, bingo I had not told him the tbr I gave him accounts for angle. meaning he had only dialed half what he should have 1st time round.
i missed the shot on the spiker trying to get the camera to focus but he sees it tumble down the slip, we bash out way down and after 30min find it in a heap of bush. Shot was perfect right through both front shoulders and stopped just inside the skin on the offside.
Drag it out grab some photos and start processing it.
Load of meat in his bag and we scramble back up the ridge and back to the truck, home just at midnight.
