What a great day yesterday was! As some of you might have read and remember I got an invitation to participate at some point to driven deer hunt with the hunting club my father hunts with. Well, yesterday was the day. There were 13 men and three dachshunds. We were sent to our places and the first drive started. With in ten minutes calf and his mother came from the forest to the field and they run through the field towards the other side of the field. I took the calf into my crosshair and pulled the trigger. It was a nice shot just behind the shoulder from the 60-70 yards.
And the best part was that after my successful hunt in the morning they asked me to join their moose hunt for this fall! So I got a "membership" in their club. So pleased with it. It will be a great hunting season with 15 permits for moose they have. Six adults and nine calves. Plus 24 deer permits. Other guy shot a nice buck only minutes after I shot my calf from the other dogs drive.
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
Congratulations Turdus! Do you guys have to qualify for a hunting license by shooting at a moving target. It seems like I saw a video where they had to do that in one of the Scandinavian countries.
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Congratulations Turdus! Do you guys have to qualify for a hunting license by shooting at a moving target. It seems like I saw a video where they had to do that in one of the Scandinavian countries.
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It used to be moving target, but nowadays the qualification shooting is shot to target that is stationary. But we still keep practising with the old style to moving target.
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Here in the Southern US the fawns are referred to as yearlings or "yerlins" as the locals would say.
One year, I hunted in Manitoba with a group from Maine. Each evening they'd share what they had seen that particular day; "we saw a couple of skippahs".
After day three, I finally had to ask - "Ok, what in the hell is a skippah?" Turns out, in the NE, they oftentimes refer to fawns and yearlings as "skippers". Skipper in NE dialect = "skippah"..
Turdus, don't sweat the language thing - I actually find it rather refreshing. And, one could argue you speak (and spell) english better than many of the gents here that claim english as native tongue.
As previously stated, fabulous eating. How do you Fins like to prepare them. Also, what type rifle - caliber?
And do not worry about your English. Many here speak Yankee, Southern, etc. as their mother tongue with English as their second language too!
I depends how different families prepare game meat. There are some who are so purebred that they season it with just salt, black pepper and juniper berries while making roast but me and my wife use the game meat just as a regular meat from any bovine. Sirloins end up in the grill and everything else just as any other dark meat.
My rifle is a Remington 798 in 30-06 with Leopold's M8 6x42 that I have had since -89 I found that rifle last July from a shop about 80 miles from where I live. It's brand new and I send an e-mail to importer and asked if any one still remembers how many of them they imported a decade ago as Remington stopped them in their line up. It turned out that they had imported ten rifles on 2006. Five in 308 Win. and five in 30-06. So it's a rarity here. I'm so pleased with it. Unholy child from european rifle maker in Serbia and laminated stock and fitting from the other side of the pond. I love it even as I know they were neglected there.