a right royal fustercluck
Didnt sleep well last night,shouldve taken that as a warning.
Terrano didnt want to start,till realised it had somehow been left in gear,shouldve taken that as 2nd warning.
had driver behind me with rather bright headlights so pulled over to let him pass. turned corner and there was said same ute stopped with hazard lights,a van sideways off road stuck in ditch..pulled up to offer help and buggamesideways the ute driver was my workmate also off for a hunt.
we got van pulled out of the ditch and headed off again...pulled off road to let mate past again..he gives me shit about being a nana driver lol.
got close to block and fallow bounded across road...years ago I wouldve bailed out and shot it..not anymore,I have been edumacated and stick to the rules now.
got out of wagon and my old dog went nuts,wouldnt shut up or settle.....she did as soon as we set off.I had decided to take both dogs as open country and could tie pup to me if was an issue...nah no worries she kept by my side and old gal happy to be in behind..perfect I thought....shouldve heard Murphy chuckling in the matagouri....
we spotted a further 8 fallow in out of bounds areas before reaching block,the nspotted 9 thar also in out of bounds,then as crested ridge 4 REDS....holy shit,get ready to shoot and old bitch decided to whinge,whine yap and generally stuff things up,deer bolted and didnt stop..as I was using .223 wasnt prepared to take a running,maybe shot....highly pissed off the old bitch n I had words,some of which may have been naughty ones,a little controlled violence was also employed,and some calm down drugs applied (possibly should have had some myself) with immediate area spooked we carried on up to ridge where we had decided to stop for lunch and view flats...cuppa was boiling and deer was spotted below,perfect,finish cuppa and start stalk...10-15 yards down hill a plurry fallow spiker erupted from under feet (plurry dogs SHOULD have told us it was there) up went rifle,ever tried shooting with neoprene cover on scope???? that sorted spiker stopped 60ish yards downhill with only obscured head visable (sound familiar?) shot was taken..new years resolution out window,clean miss,as was 2nd and 3rd and 4th by which time wee black weasel like streak was in warp factor 9 and heading for pastures elsewhere..... NOT MY DAY..... carried on down hill and outtowards wagon,stopping for another cuppa and glassing out of bounds animals....
a good walk,good company with bro in law along,stopped in at 257w home for cuppa and catchup then headed home with my tail between legs.


we had seen total of 16 reds,17 fallow and similar number of thar for the day,got back to wagon,looked up into farmers paddock,not deer fenced to see 12 reds grazing out in open at midday!!!!!!

Lol. Some days it's tough to remember that a bad day in the field beats the tar out of a good day at work regardless of what goes wrong.

I know mate, and I’m sorry, I shouldn’t laugh, but Murphy was working with everything to stuff up your hunt mate. Everything, from the very start, came together to work against you. What I can’t understand is how you missed all of those shots at the one fallow? You’re normally a much better shot than that mate.

Oh well…next time…tomorrow maybe?

it lept up from under my feet,was bouncing around like boobies on a bouncy castle going steeply downhill,I was flustered to begin with and more so after missing twice....and the little streak of weasel piss wasnt very big to begin with. fallow are my nemesis animal,always have been,dont know why,it just happens.

somewhat redeemed myself today....mind you though the fallow spiker co operated nicely by standing still at 40-50 yards for just long enough and the wee trebly took care of the rest... meat is safely in fridge,mate took hand quarter and back steak and I have found 2 homes for the rest...kept less than kilo for myself...primo fat fallow is awesome eating.

Yesterday Iwent back to scene of earlier fiasco....left home late...didnt get away till 3 in arvo after sleeping after nightshift... uneventful walk in,got up to glassing spot with little light left,had quick look then set up boars nest for the night..Poppy the only just still a puppy wasnt too impressed with the new kennel Dad had made then had audacity to get into himself then call her into....small army surplus fly over a couple of tussock bushes..but the deep moss mattress was bliss. it started to rain at 04;30 and kept going till 06;30...when it stopped I rolled out of bed and quickly rolled it up and poked everything into my pack then carefully moved hundy yards across to vantage spot.spent best part of hour glassing with nothing at all seen.could see cloud moving rapidly towards us so decended to fenceline we would use for walk out...just as well as whiteout soon followed,visibility between 10-40 yards at best.....then the rain arrived in earnest ......oh happy happy joy joy ...when we made it back to track proper I stopped and put the doggy backback/saddles back onto Poppy (who by this stage could be called popsicle,man it was cold) to help keep her a bit warmer,and we plodded back to wagon... my rain coat did well and I even had hood up and pulled tight,I hate hoods but it was stupidly wet.
so again the deerzies went unharmed LOL.

“Elvis” wrote:

…so again the deerzies went unharmed

Yeah, but at least you had an afternoon out in the oolloo mate, which is more than I’ve been able to do. The deer will wait until next time.

poked together some somewhat different to usual reloads today...for them pesky fallow or maybe Mr wallaby.....22-250 with 38.5grns of win 760 topped off with the rarely seen any more norinco 55grn fmj pill... you say what??? has Elvis finally lost the plot????
that particular pill is unique....dont know how it does it,or why it does it,but it behaves as Mr Stoner intended the 5.56 SHOULD behave....it tumbles on impact. given its speed will be 35-3600fps and rifle has 1;14 twist it will be on borderline stability to assist the yaw factor in starting. these pills are nasty enough at 223 speed with 1;10 twist so I have high hopes they will be even more so as Ive loaded them.
mate pulled couple of hundred rounds so I happily took projectiles off him.

Be interesting to see how they behave mate. I wonder if they will tumble early at 22.250 velocities?

Oh, I notice that the duck is still habitating your kitchen, sitting on the pot. Are ya gonna turn him into stew or Peking Duck or something else mate?

they should bore true till hit something,the extra speed will help stability ,Stoner who invented the 5.56/M16 called for 1;14 twist and 55 grn pill...... but was over ruled as some rifles started the tumble early and were no good at range..up close however....... dont think the men in green complained. the big issue was swapping of powders from stick to ball,the slower let of was what caused the issues with rifles jamming.
I used 100 rounds of factory norinco in .223 when bought rifle 26 years ago...it sure killed well,wallabies did not like it at all... the slower twist and added speed should cancel each other out stability wise.... time will tell.
that duck was released many moons ago LOL.... 6 weeks till duck harvest season.