Last chance for the Fallow Buck.

[Lucky Mick 23]

Hi all, well this is it, i'm off at lunch time for a three day hunt with a couple of mates. I'm going in for a knee opp next week and as yet i still havn't got that Fallow Buck, so i will be pulling all stops out over the next three days. :?

Hopefully the next time i talk to you all i will have some good pics, and a successfull storie to tell. Oh and the fallow Buck on the ground. :wink:

Mick.

[aussiehunter]

all the best mate,enjoy urself..

pat :D

[Lucky Mick 23]

Thanks Pat i will.
Mick. :lol:

[PeterM]

Good luck mate, with both the hunt and the knee opp!

[Lucky Mick 23]

Thanks Peter, hey how's your war injury, do you require surgery. Hope not for your sake, get better soon mate, still alot of hunting in them legs to be done yet.
Mick.

[jlw712]

Goodluck mate. Hope you do well.

Cheers Jo

[PeterM]

Thanks Peter, hey how's your war injury, do you require surgery. Hope not for your sake, get better soon mate, still alot of hunting in them legs to be done yet.
Mick.

I've already had two operations on it, 2 x clean and one muscle reattachment and closure, but the leg looks and feel as good as I can be at this point, touch wood again!

Again I wish you the best of luck mate! :D

[interceptor]

Best of luck Mick, givem heaps.

Cheers Noel

[XTfreak]

Good luck with the op and hunt.
Bill

[Lucky Mick 23]

Well i'm back and still without that Buck i was looking so forward to hanging on my wall :cry:

I seen quite a few bucks, some great, some good, some not so good. It took me an hour of waiting in my blind for this buck to get to 75yrds, only to have him walk into the creek, never to be seen again.

Took this picture of him while i was waiting, the picture doesn't do him justice for he is far bigger in body and tops than the pic shows.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e272/Richom23/2006_01250015.jpg

Had a great time and am looking forward to next year already. Reds are next on the hunting agenda. How have the rest of you been going?
Mick.

[adam]

He's a Healthy looking bugger, next time.

Are you hunting free range, just caught eye of that fence is all mate and its a bit hard to make out.

Adam

Hey there Lucky mick hope the leg improves after the Op ,nice photo as well , which side of that big fence is he on mate the inside or the outside ?

[XTfreak]

How have the rest of you been going?
I have done great, seen a beautiful buck everytime I go out. Then just as I hit full draw the most annoying thing happens.. My alarm clock goes off and I wake up to get ready for work. :(
Working on a hunt for later this year or next.
Bill

[Lucky Mick 23]

LOl, guy i can assure you that he is on the right side of that fence.

The fence you can see surrounds a huge chicken processing plant, it runs for about 500mtrs with the creek on the opposite side to it. It creates a kinda natural funnel until it opens up to cattle country.

When i took the pic i thought it would raise the question. He is a nice buck and i just had to share him with you all.
Mick.

[Lucky Mick 23]

ROFLMAO, Bill, toooo funny mate. I think we have all had that dream more than once hey fellas.

Good luck on the upcoming hunt mate. Hope you bag that monster.
Mick.

[Mozza]

I just got back from a week chasing the hog deer on Boole Poole.
I spent 5 days at about 8 to 9 hours a day sitting still up a treestand and only saw one doe, it would have to be the most boring hunting I have ever done, but hey it was something different.
I will still be going chasing them next year though :)
I might head out after the fallow again in the next few weeks.
Hope you get another go at him sometime Mick, just remember that he will be bigger next year :wink: 8)

[Lucky Mick 23]

Yeah i know Mozza, so long as the spot lighters don't get him first, as i am on private property and the owner has the odd shot as well so hopefully this buck will lay low until we meet again next year.

Mozza, didn't you like the tree stand thing? Was it the fact that you weren't moving around that bored you or the lack of oppertunities?

The reason i ask is that i am looking at may-be purchasing a tree stand cos i think if i had one on this trip i would have got the big fella on the ground.

Every deer i seen in that particular area feed up to between 65-75yrds and then where the grass changed colour, off they went into the creek which by the way is so thick in most places that you can't even push your way through it.

Bad luck about only seeing one doe mate,,like me, next year huh
Mick.

[Mozza]

Mick, I recon that a treestand would be good in certain situations, but there wasn't any game coming into the water I was sitting off, so it was like watching a movie for 9 hours where nothing happened, pretty boring.

The worst part was that my but hurt from sitting still for so long, my advice would be find a stand with a comfy seat on it 8)

[Lucky Mick 23]

Ok Mozza, thanks. A couple of mate that i hunt with are going over to the States later this year chasing elk (lucky ba@%&*$#>) and while they are over there they will be going to have a look at Cabelas to look at some tree stands first hand.
Mick.

[XTfreak]

Ive spent many many hours in a treestand. (The first hour before dawn till about an hour after first light.) Sitting just inside the woods on the edge of a field next to a good run. And sat in a stand on a diffrent run about an hour or two before dark till full dark. I almost always seen heaps of deer. BUT from an hour after dawn till an hour or two before dark it was spot and stalk. Never spent a full day in a stand.
Bill

[Mozza]

dont spend 5 full days :roll:
what an idiot I am :lol: