After missing one on the first day I found this big fella with about 15 other deer walking in off the flat
To a scrubby bank , they were travelling in a line about 400 yards out so I got into some cover on the bank
And waited , as they passed by several large push piles of timber the stag dropped off and bedded out of
The cold breeze and it was cold.
I got out of the cover I was in and the does came up to almost where I had been sitting , I skirted around the
Hill and down into some broken ground that I could approach the push piles in while staying low , There were
4 large piles of timber and as they walked through them it blocked them from view so I wasn’t sure which of them the stag had
Stopped behind, I carefully snuck up on the first one , no stag ! Next one, no stag ! The third pile was the largest
And when I looked over the third one I could see the tips of his antlers , he was tucked in close to the pile on the other
Side looking out to the flat.
The breeze was strong and blowing towards us from left to right when I looked over the log pile he was less than 8 metres
Away but I couldn’t get up on the logs to shoot the bow down at him from there , I crept to the end of the pile and snuck a look
He was rump on to me laying uphill on about a 40degree angle to my right chewing his cud , It wasn’t perfect as I had to half expose
Myself so I could draw the bow, but as it worked out he never spotted me and the arrow tucked in under his ribs through his heart
And stopped dead on his off side shoulder, It didn’t look like a lot of penetration but it was right where it needed to be he stood up and
took a couple of steps looking back my way , I didn’t move, he faltered And fell back almost to where he had been laying.
All of a sudden I couldnt feel the cold breeze and all I could feel was the Sun , this was a great day.
Topic: Daily Hunt pics and Stories 2006 (Read 41637 times)
