I was on a meat mission and have been for a while lately and being unfit all stars have to line up, mostly the retrieval stars!
I hadn't gone far from my vehicle today at first light, in fact I wasn't even in fair dinkum mode but I had seen a deer previously on the same hill face and got out a bit earlier this morn and right on daybreak I saw this deer among the berry bushes.
He was trotting across the face above and across but slightly towards me.... whoa! He propped,I shot!The thwack seemed to make a hell of a thump today for some reason and he dropped on the spot.
Went back to the ute and via a berry bashing route I drove up to him,hooked him up then towed the deer back down to a high road bank,dropped him off then drove back around and backed up to the bank ,dropped the tailgate and pulled him all of the two feet in. No effort for a change.
I have my family trekking to here for Easter,the meat is more than welcome and most will go home with them.He had much caul fat and as a two year old hes far more solid than the pic suggests.I am happy to take the easy with the hard these days.

I took his/all pics with my primitive digi camera of a few ducks here also. They are Maned geese,colloquially known as 'woodies' or 'wood ducks'