Five Point Buck

A great start to Saturday morning before the shoot work party with the 5 point buck in the bag. Got to the farm yard at 5.30am with the sun just starting to appear, the clouds were reflecting a red glow pre the rain to come later in the morning. Had already decided the destination of the mornings stalk which was to the first high seat on the railway bank. A lame fox had been reported by the farm staff to be working along the hedge row leading from the bank which if it showed was to be the main target. If that did not make an appearance then if a buck did..........
Got to the seat by 6am with two doe's spotted at the far end of the bank, had to get up the seat without making too much noise as to not alert the doe's. Literally within ten minutes a doe came out of the undergrowth approx 40 yards away from the seat closely followed by the buck. Managed to knock the rifle butt against the tree when lifting up to my shoulder thus making the buck twitchy, so without any delay the first opportunity was taken to dispatch the 100 grain Federal bullet which duly hit the target. It was a clean kill with the buck stumbling 20 yards before going over.
Roger was also on the farm at the time so a call was made to inform him of the buck. I was then shown a quick and cleaner way to clean the carcass as opposed to a method shown on a training dvd.
Another trophy to prepare now which will be done next weekend.
All in all a good week on the shooting front with one fox and one buck.