cleaky
10-08-2014, 07:43 PM
A wee while ago I got the 7-08 shortened to 17" and suppressed using a DPT modular overbarrel suppressor. Eventually got round to sighting it back in last week and headed out for a hunt Sunday.
I wasn't hopeful given the weather was arse and blowing a gale but the guy who'd organised access to the bush over the back of a farm was fizzing so off we went. A quick chat with the cocky about boundaries and whatnot had us agreeing to stick to the north side and he'd do farmy things over on the south and off we went.
5 minutes in and we'd found a pig nest in the bracken just off the edge of the lambing paddock. His marks were impressive, could fit my fist in them putting him over 200lb gutted. Chatting with the cocky later and he's been around ages, always gets away apparently. Challenge accepted!
Jumped the creek and headed up the steep bush face to pop onto the clearing at the top. Rounded the clearing to get the wind right and went back into the bush. It looked more deery so we went into ninja mode and about 50m in bumped into a silly spiker who stood there for long enough to allow me to load, raise the rifle and squeeze the trigger. A quick track and there he was piled up stone dead. My mate who hadn't done much hunting was stoked, first deer he's seen in the bush and we got it.
Our familys will be in meat again for a while now.
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I wasn't hopeful given the weather was arse and blowing a gale but the guy who'd organised access to the bush over the back of a farm was fizzing so off we went. A quick chat with the cocky about boundaries and whatnot had us agreeing to stick to the north side and he'd do farmy things over on the south and off we went.
5 minutes in and we'd found a pig nest in the bracken just off the edge of the lambing paddock. His marks were impressive, could fit my fist in them putting him over 200lb gutted. Chatting with the cocky later and he's been around ages, always gets away apparently. Challenge accepted!
Jumped the creek and headed up the steep bush face to pop onto the clearing at the top. Rounded the clearing to get the wind right and went back into the bush. It looked more deery so we went into ninja mode and about 50m in bumped into a silly spiker who stood there for long enough to allow me to load, raise the rifle and squeeze the trigger. A quick track and there he was piled up stone dead. My mate who hadn't done much hunting was stoked, first deer he's seen in the bush and we got it.
Our familys will be in meat again for a while now.
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s105/cleaky/WP_20141005_001.jpg