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93mouse
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Burning midnight oil
      #218632 - 30/10/12 06:28 AM

"Wee spend our mid-day sweat, or mid-night oyle;
Wee tyre the night in thought; the day in toyle."

Francis Quarles Emblemes, 1635

...nothing to write home about...

Just back from filling tags (helping my friend in one of the finest grounds our country has to offer)...romantics and beauty are deceiving...bloody hard work:

Even dog doesn't like it after completed 3 trackings from the day before...at 4 am (do I realy have to?)



After 1 hr drive we are somehow ready:







...



Better part



Back to camp - a peek into storage - my friend's 2012 Red Stag Harvest - 2 left to go, deadline December 31st:

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #218637 - 30/10/12 09:32 AM

Great! - Nice weather too, only -3, bit of tracking snow is nice. Not that great to walk through when the boughs are so full of snow, though.
Just got our first snow - only 12" so far.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: DarylS]
      #218641 - 30/10/12 10:03 AM

Nice. Looks a little chilly! Your dog needs a coat and ear warmers.
Sounds like I might get a hunt in on 11/11 with Joe Vidmar if I'm lucky. In his hunting family forests near Vidam. Think I will bring something warm....
See you soon.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: AdamK]
      #218656 - 30/10/12 07:55 PM

Great with some snow!!! Nice to see these pics, not that nice to shift tires like that.... /Staffan

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #218663 - 31/10/12 12:46 AM

Quote:

"Wee spend our mid-day sweat, or mid-night oyle;
Wee tyre the night in thought; the day in toyle."

Francis Quarles Emblemes, 1635



93mouse, impressed by your literary talents! A good quotation.

Love the photos and comments. Both sad and glad I didn't experience snow when hunting. Sad because it would be a first for me, but ho hum for everyone else there. Glad because otherwise it would have been cold. Instead we had every day being unusually pleasant weather, usually blue sky, with only one day being wet.

Thanks for posting.

PS My wife was travelling near you only a month ago.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: NitroX]
      #218689 - 31/10/12 06:48 AM

Fun to be out and about..looks like a good trip..looks like good tracking snow..

Thank you for the pics and words of wisdom..

Ripp

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93mouse
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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: Ripp]
      #218693 - 31/10/12 09:10 AM

Thanks Guys

Barely -3 deg C at dawn - take in account a costant 30km/h NE wind fan coming down from »Mother Russia« ...keps the beer cold tho hehe.

It was rather early front – this snow is not suppose to stay long - a week or so - true winter is yet to come. Actually we planed to hunt from Friday til Sunday but the nasty weather with heavy rains changed our plans to condensed Monday.

Quite a contrast to usual hunting – my friend is a PH and his wage counts upon his preformance – things like plastic stock and 9,3 caliber do have their place there – every thing is so tense under the pressure - shot behind the shoulder, instead on the shoulder means 20 minute delay – tyre puncture 1hr mess is a minor disaster...btw from 6am -8am we have filled 3 game feeders with corn, shot 2 red deer calves,tracked and pinned down a location of 2 wild boar herds for a client based driven hunt later, made a breakfast for a company of 8... so my tender soul needs some comfort in all this drill and poems are handy...

AdamK good to have you around and I am looking forward till next time – guys you are all welcome if you happen to be near.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #218908 - 03/11/12 06:30 AM

Hunting in real winter conditions is good. There is only a true hunters out.

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93mouse
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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: Paatti]
      #218996 - 04/11/12 07:00 AM

Yet another Saturday

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AdamK
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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #219012 - 04/11/12 07:14 PM

Glad to see things have warmed up a bit for you and the dog.
Did he have any tusks?

I'm jelous of your ability to be in hunting paradise so often. I didn't manage to get away for my much anticipated deer hunt this weekend thanks to work. I got out for a spearfishing session this morning instead and shot a nice 13kg king fish. Not as good as a deer but delicious anyway.

See you next week.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: AdamK]
      #219019 - 04/11/12 10:12 PM

Burning midnight oil... for a minute I thought someone ese is toiling away though the night at the office, but no, it's just me! You're out hunting! Every dollar made is another dollar onwards my next hunt so I guess I'll just keep going. I've hunted sambar in the snow at home but never managed to drop one against a white backdrop. Looks nice...

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93mouse
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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: AdamK]
      #219680 - 16/11/12 01:00 AM

Quote:

See you next week.



He he - just had a drink with Adam last night here in Ljubljana - I mentioned that I will go to hunt today - not expecting much...

Dang - at 7:58 a.m. once in a lifetime...

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #219778 - 18/11/12 09:50 PM

It was good to see you again mate. Im glad there wasnt much scotch in that bottle or you may not have been up for your hunt.
It was great to receve your phone message during my day of meetings. Very happy for you. I certainly knew where i'd rather have been!
Keep the photos coming so I can live my hunting dreams vicariously through you, until I get out there again.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: AdamK]
      #219781 - 18/11/12 11:34 PM

You are sure having fun. The one good thing about the snow is that you dn't have to worry about meat going off. very nice photos, thanks for sharing.

BTW, I like your dog.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #219830 - 19/11/12 06:24 PM

That is a very good Chamois. Well done.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: Rule303]
      #219844 - 20/11/12 02:21 AM

Well done on the chamois. What is the story of the hunt?

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93mouse
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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: NitroX]
      #219853 - 20/11/12 03:58 AM

John not much - per se - tho must look at it in broader picture.
I have a soft spot for Chamois in my heart - I live with those guys year around - therefore I tend to be quite picky when hunting one.

If you remember - it is almost 5 years since I have shot my last one.

http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=89802&an=0&page=2#Post89802

I did track some wounded ones and lead a couple of friends on their hunts tho.

So all in all - I wander through their (Chamois) territory regulary all year around - to fill salt licks in the Spring, count them in early Summer when they give birth to see how many newborns we have and finaly stalk them in the late Autumn and Winter to shoot anything that deserves to be taken out (old, sick...).

So this morning was one of those when I happen to find one that should need closest interest of laying my reticle on.

It was preliminary stalk on one of the easiest parts (terrain wise), before descending into vertical world of theirs. He was with a group of 6 females with goatings. At first I was going to leave him with the ladies when all of the sudden I realised something is amiss with the expression on his face. So I tweaked my Zeiss on my R93 to 12x that confirmed my speculation that buck is blind on his left eye.

Shot at app. 140m with 9,3x62 GSHV 230gr doing 2550 fps was a bit quartering toward me - entry on the shoulder - exit behind the opposite shoulder - he didn't hear it coming.

We have a strict set number, sex, age quota for Chamois here - so a death of this one means a survival of another - healthier one. I must say I didn't know about this buck nore did my friends that hunted there hard for the last 14 days - luck I guess.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #219857 - 20/11/12 04:38 AM

Nice pics, great story!

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93mouse
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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: Sville]
      #221551 - 14/12/12 03:15 AM

Thanks!

Some more ...let's try in German today...bitter - 15 deg.C morning.



Stalked a yearling stag and gave him 293 TUG from The Right One at 80m distance

"Anschuss"





"Nachsuche"






"Weidmannsheil!"

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #221628 - 15/12/12 12:05 AM

Quote:


"Weidmannsheil!"





Looks like great sport 93mouse! I'm going for a walk with a mate tomorrow but we're not planning on having that sort of luck, it's not that there won't be any deer... closed season!

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: DaggaBoyBlog]
      #221726 - 16/12/12 08:52 AM

This one was easy following the signs in the snow...

Quite contrary from today - walking on the edge, deadly serious - after vertigo influenced tracking of wounded 1y.o. chamois I have whitnessed a deadly 20m free fall drop of my dog over the cliff - I thought it it was all over...



Luckily it wasn't and we may live to tell another story tomorrow...

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #224493 - 30/01/13 06:46 AM

Just back from a short hunt in Croatia





had fun with hunting boars by stalking. Anyway - one morning



- just after I have shot a fox -

I've whitnessed a great 2 min display of a huge herd of trophy Stags scrambled by my shot that was on the way across a long meadow. Later on, when we were colecting boars from morning hunts - we bumped once again into a small part of that herd. When I pull my stuff together I will post the mentioned herd in full length - till then just an appertizer - for best view watch directly on You Tube in HD and Full screen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SavmAOxmnj4

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: 93mouse]
      #224514 - 30/01/13 04:15 PM

Quote:

This one was easy following the signs in the snow...

Quite contrary from today - walking on the edge, deadly serious - after vertigo influenced tracking of wounded 1y.o. chamois I have whitnessed a deadly 20m free fall drop of my dog over the cliff - I thought it it was all over...



Luckily it wasn't and we may live to tell another story tomorrow...



Sorry to read this, and missed this previous post. I hope the hound has fully recovered and you too from the sounds of it!

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: NitroX]
      #224523 - 30/01/13 07:39 PM

Yes a close shave by the sounds of things Mouse.

Hope your dog is making a sound recovery.

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Re: Burning midnight oil [Re: NitroX]
      #224524 - 30/01/13 07:43 PM

Congrats on some great hunts.
Whats the story behind that Chamois's eye? Looks like an old animal?

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