Muskox
AH elite
I drove home last night from Hohenfels, I figured I'd post photos of the hunt.
It was a two day driven hunt, we hunted the 6th and 7th.
They put everyone into lanes and then you fallow your hunt leader to the hunting area, and they put you into the stand.
Was really foggy and cold, and because of this I was concerned about not having a back stop, so I thought I better limit shots to what I could see. Always wise.
My hunt leader for the first day was one of the regional forest supervisors for Bavaria. He put me in a new stand on a big clearing with a 200-300 foot tall hill that made a bowl around the stand. The seat was a normal open and new Kanzel with a roof.
Within a few minutes on the thermal I could see some animals in the fog about 100 meters away that ended up being red deer hinds.
To the left once I got settled a big herd of about 15 red deer with one 8-10kg stag with a broken right main beam came through the clearing about 150 meters away. I put my crosshairs on him and he stopped but gave me the Texas heart shot. So I didn't shoot, then they were gone.
About an hour later the deer I saw with the thermal finally came to the right of the clearing and I shot the trailing hind. Was pretty far back, but because we weren't allowed to leave the stand until 1300 I couldn't do anything about it. We found her dead in a very thick blackthorn thicket 40 meters from where I shot her. Was a hell of a recovery but the young forester came and helped me drag her out. I gave him a new Helle knife I had bought in Finland last year, sharp knife but I have a ton of knives.
A roe buck came out at 12:00 and I thought I center punched him. He ran off. We later found out that there was a black 6 inch trunk stump about 10 feet in from of the buck. I split the trunk and there was a huge area of displaced dirt from the bullet. 10,3x68 RWS with a 200 Grain RWS HIT bullet.
I lost my balance and fell backward out of the high seat. Landed in the black thorn and shredded my pants. I Was sore on Thursday night but I was fine on Friday morning.
The dogs found no blood, and no indication of a hit.
Yesterday was also a great hunting day. They put me 2.5 miles away from my original high seat in a driven hunt seat. These are lower, and don't have a roof. They are also really easy to fall out of, as they normally aren't very well built. The seat was in a reverse bowl of the previous day, but fully timbered. I had the big back stop behind me, and couldn't shoot in that direction.
I had the biggest fluffiest fox I have ever seen in my entire life about 30 yards from the blind. Foxes can not be shot on forest service driven hunts. I don't agree with the methodology, but it's how they do it.
I had no action until 11:00 when a spiker came in from the right. I got set up and hit him well and the bullet entered on the right behind the ribs and broke his left shoulder. It actually dumped about half of his cuts like a zipper. He died behind me and up the hill on the opposite of the road behind me.
I had a couple of hinds cross behind me in my only no shooting zone at 11:30.
At 12:00 I had an adult male wild boar come in from the left. I thought I hit him, but he did not act hit, and he took off.
The hunt concluded at 1300; and I climbed the hill and opened the stag up. A guy came up to help me then walked away so I drug him to the road by myself.
The hunt team leader this day, said that they had to get someone with a dog to deal with he wild boar. That the forest service would take care of it.
I cut the head off the stag and took him home with me.
It was a two day driven hunt, we hunted the 6th and 7th.
They put everyone into lanes and then you fallow your hunt leader to the hunting area, and they put you into the stand.
Was really foggy and cold, and because of this I was concerned about not having a back stop, so I thought I better limit shots to what I could see. Always wise.
My hunt leader for the first day was one of the regional forest supervisors for Bavaria. He put me in a new stand on a big clearing with a 200-300 foot tall hill that made a bowl around the stand. The seat was a normal open and new Kanzel with a roof.
Within a few minutes on the thermal I could see some animals in the fog about 100 meters away that ended up being red deer hinds.
To the left once I got settled a big herd of about 15 red deer with one 8-10kg stag with a broken right main beam came through the clearing about 150 meters away. I put my crosshairs on him and he stopped but gave me the Texas heart shot. So I didn't shoot, then they were gone.
About an hour later the deer I saw with the thermal finally came to the right of the clearing and I shot the trailing hind. Was pretty far back, but because we weren't allowed to leave the stand until 1300 I couldn't do anything about it. We found her dead in a very thick blackthorn thicket 40 meters from where I shot her. Was a hell of a recovery but the young forester came and helped me drag her out. I gave him a new Helle knife I had bought in Finland last year, sharp knife but I have a ton of knives.
A roe buck came out at 12:00 and I thought I center punched him. He ran off. We later found out that there was a black 6 inch trunk stump about 10 feet in from of the buck. I split the trunk and there was a huge area of displaced dirt from the bullet. 10,3x68 RWS with a 200 Grain RWS HIT bullet.
I lost my balance and fell backward out of the high seat. Landed in the black thorn and shredded my pants. I Was sore on Thursday night but I was fine on Friday morning.
The dogs found no blood, and no indication of a hit.
Yesterday was also a great hunting day. They put me 2.5 miles away from my original high seat in a driven hunt seat. These are lower, and don't have a roof. They are also really easy to fall out of, as they normally aren't very well built. The seat was in a reverse bowl of the previous day, but fully timbered. I had the big back stop behind me, and couldn't shoot in that direction.
I had the biggest fluffiest fox I have ever seen in my entire life about 30 yards from the blind. Foxes can not be shot on forest service driven hunts. I don't agree with the methodology, but it's how they do it.
I had no action until 11:00 when a spiker came in from the right. I got set up and hit him well and the bullet entered on the right behind the ribs and broke his left shoulder. It actually dumped about half of his cuts like a zipper. He died behind me and up the hill on the opposite of the road behind me.
I had a couple of hinds cross behind me in my only no shooting zone at 11:30.
At 12:00 I had an adult male wild boar come in from the left. I thought I hit him, but he did not act hit, and he took off.
The hunt concluded at 1300; and I climbed the hill and opened the stag up. A guy came up to help me then walked away so I drug him to the road by myself.
The hunt team leader this day, said that they had to get someone with a dog to deal with he wild boar. That the forest service would take care of it.
I cut the head off the stag and took him home with me.
