[quote="Stix"]Lol...
What is it she doesnt like Brinny...
Cutting through that cartilage of the ears...peeling & cutting the snout lips & wet nose off..the amount of moisture that seeps out of a fresh scalp....or is it the look of that eye when you finally get the scalp past it... ,
You should record when you ask her & post link to the video it in the Joke thread..or in the fox pages....
So...on topic...
Great pics & mount...
..well done...
But you missed the bit in between the pics & mount Brinny...the story, how long from finding the wallow to the shot, how far, what rifle, a stalk or a stakeout...etc etc...
But...very nice pics & head...
Not much of a story to tell Stix....
Mate found the wallow sometime prior...and put the camera on it....We went back a few months later and checked it......swapped over cards and went into the next gulley and started for the bottom...where we were going to split up and take a side gulley each for the day and meet up at a given time that afternoon.....
Took us a few hours to get to the bottom...as we were constantly looking as we were heading down.......as soon as we did...the stag was standing there next to some thick bush....He took off when he saw us...He was around the 80-100m away...
I took a quick shot with my 308 and hit him hard in the chest....He got into the thick bush but for some reason came back out and started to head up the hill....where the bush was sparce and light....He was pretty buggered and quickly pulled up with his head down.....I gave him another to the neck and it was all over....
After the butchering and caping was done, we loaded up what meat we could carry out and prepared for the long haul out....
My mate had made a waypoint on his GPS before we dropped over the side....He clicked on it to see how far it was to the top....and it was just shy of 1000m.....Straight up....Side gulleys were far to thick to even think about sidling around....
Was a tough trip up....Then we had the walk out.....
Couple of pretty knackered, but happy old deer hunters by the time we got back......
A day without a hunt, is a day lost.....