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Post by jrw on Jan 9, 2015 19:52:47 GMT -5
Billy, do you kill the roe deer all year? Or just during the fall and winter months?
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Post by sakorifle on Jan 23, 2015 20:50:42 GMT -5
greetings jwr The seasons for roe in England are does november the first until march the 31st bucks april the first until the end of october. Realistically i finish the buck at the end of the rut wich is around mid august and i do other wildlife work until october when they start moving again.
Well two weeks ago winter started here, it has been very mild up until then, but that changed and we have had a lot of frost gales and a bit of snow. For the last two weeks i only managed to harvest six deer, like i have always said roe deer will not move and waste energy in conditions like that until they have to. Well this week they have had to move to feed and i have harvested ten animals, i went up onto the high ground where the temperatures were very low and most snow, all thought i was mad but i knew that the roe up there are more used to these conditions than the animals in the valley and it paid off. They were out feeding as i thought. So that is seventy six we have harvested since the first of November, just have to keep plugging away and see how things go. regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Jan 31, 2015 10:58:46 GMT -5
Greetings It's been a terrible week weather wise for stalking, rain turning to snow. Never mind I'm a mountain man, lol, so I got on with it. I harvested four this week. The last deer is the story. I stalked up a road in the deep snow, on my right is an open moor with a lot of snow on it, as I went on I seen three deer, a buck in velvet and two does. I got into range and put the Bullet into the base of a does neck, at the shot the other two took off at a rate of knots. I thought bang, open, pickup, so I went to where I thought she was lying, got there no deer,I searched and searched to no avail,so I was left with no option but to hike back to the van and get Bailey the pup and try again. I knew this deer was dead. I will add that as Bailey is still a very lively pup, she does not always stalk beside me as Kelly did, that will come. So Bailey and I set off to loom for this deer, obviously firstly she tracked were I had walked, then she tracked the two deer that had run into the trees, I pulled her back and the pup tracked every scent that was on that moor. One of those scents took us to my deer, in its final death throws it had kicked itself right under the snow, leaving no air scent for the dog to sniff. There was no visible blood until I pulled the deer out from beneath the snow. One and a half hours later a very tired but happy wet dwarf was walking off the hill with a deer on his back, thanks to an outstanding pup on her first years training. Without a dog that animal would certainly of been lost. Life as a pro stalker would be so much more difficult if not impossible without a four legged friend. Regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Jan 31, 2015 11:01:52 GMT -5
Excuse the word mistakes it's the kindles fault, lol Guess the right word, hehe
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Post by schoolmaster on Jan 31, 2015 20:37:26 GMT -5
Remarkable how well you and your dog work together. It must be very rewarding.
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Post by sakorifle on Feb 21, 2015 14:21:46 GMT -5
Greetings Been a while since I gave an update so here it is. The weather this last three weeks has not been helpful with thick fog day after day, but I have plodded on. I have culled ninety seven does since November the first, I am looking for another three does, if they don't turn up I really am not too bothered. I got an e mail on Friday asking if I would go to another forest one hundred miles south of Me to cull sika stags next month, I really feel I have had enough. But if they insist I will have to pack my gear and go. Annoying really because I could of been there in October calling them to me, but now I may have to go hunting them,thats if I go, I'm going to try to get out of going, lol Regards Billy
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Post by sakorifle on Feb 25, 2015 17:33:21 GMT -5
Greetings Well that's it folks the weather gave a brief window of opportunity this morning, so I made the most of it and finished the cull, ended up with 101 doe's We officially finish shooting on Friday but I think I've taken enough off the place. So I now come down off the stand until April and the bucks start all over again. I have seen some nice bucks this last two weeks, and they have now started fraying and removing the velvet from there antlers. One big cycle starts again. Regards Billy
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Post by jrw on Feb 25, 2015 23:47:29 GMT -5
Billy - How many bucks will you be expected to take?
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Post by sakorifle on Feb 26, 2015 8:26:30 GMT -5
Greetings jwr For the last few years it has been ninety bucks, and I can see no reason to increase that figure. Tree damage is down to four percent and stable. But see what they say, then I will argue my case, but it will be a maximum of ninety, it,s me that touches the trigger, wink wink.(don't know how to do real winks etc) Lol Regards Billy
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Mar 2, 2015 19:13:22 GMT -5
I was going through my sd card from my video camera after Friday's coyote hunt and found a couple videos. November 7, 2014 I was "live from the stand" and commented that I had rattled in a young buck that came in posturing to my decoy. This is the video. Nothing special but a fun encounter. youtu.be/_z9m0WBbZ2g
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