1 week to go

villa1979

Hopefully this time next week i will be home with a couple of mallard and be getting the rifle ready for a nice sika pricket then back out in the evening for a few more duck cant wait

darreng375

Hope to have a nice red at first light

fabwing

darreng375 wrote: »

Hope to have a nice red at first light

I will hopefully shoot one or two mallard but will leave the stalking for a few weeks more.

Lotharmike

Took her out, getting ready,confirm zero Friday/ Sat looking forward to it .

Cass

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Gun porn.

All ready myself. Will be hitting the deer from the off. No want for duck. Have rifles zeroed, clothing sorted, first permission picked. All i need now is for it to be Monday.

clivej

Looking good for next week. Deer heading across the field 9.30pm and then back bout 6.30am.
41 photo's of deer in the same field over 8 consecutive nights
Trail cam is a Moultrie 880 on Hybrid mode. Takes a photo every 5 minutes in daytime hours, about 140 photo's, that can be viewed as a stop motion video on my PC. That way you can view a full day in a couple of minutes. Saves each day with different file name. I did get a couple of deer in the morning in the stop motion mode on 1 day. It also triggers in daylight if a motion detection is detected.
Then it switches over to motion detection for the night hours.
Month date is wrong should be 08














Photo showing an image from the daytime stop motion at 6.25am. These deer are about 130m from the trail cam and would not have triggered the motion detector sensor.

Jimy1971

Will be walking the Shannon myself looking for a few mallard. Can't wait.Look at the smile on my Springers face. She knows its nearly time lol.

Cass

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The fecking dog is actually smiling for the camera. Priceless.


@Clivej. The trail camera really saves a lot of ground work. Been out myself in the car most evenings and a couple of mornings. The hassle a camera would save is unreal. Looks like you have a fairly guaranteed morning ahead of you.

clivej

Cass wrote: »

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The fecking dog is actually smiling for the camera. Priceless.


@Clivej. The trail camera really saves a lot of ground work. Been out myself in the car most evenings and a couple of mornings. The hassle a camera would save is unreal. Looks like you have a fairly guaranteed morning ahead of you.

Cass you and I know the deer know Monday is the 1st, there won't be one to be had :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Jimy1971

Cass wrote: »

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The fecking dog is actually smiling for the camera. Priceless.


@Clivej. The trail camera really saves a lot of ground work. Been out myself in the car most evenings and a couple of mornings. The hassle a camera would save is unreal. Looks like you have a fairly guaranteed morning ahead of you.

She started doing it last season lol. Mad or what ??

Cass

clivej wrote: »

Cass you and I know the deer know Monday is the 1st, there won't be one to be had :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Yup. Something like this:

Jimy1971 wrote: »

She started doing it last season lol. Mad or what ??

It's when she pauses to brush her hair you need to start worrying.

garv123

I've been out the last 4 years on the first.. This is my first Ive gotten a deer rifle and of course Ill be working. :mad:

Hope to get out that evening around 7 if I ever get a chance to zero the rifle. Weather isnt looking too good for zero'n

The Aussie

Have taken the Monday off, still tossing up whether it's bound for Kerry or Tipp North yet, will make phone calls on Saturday morning and see Weather forecasts and decide Sunday...

Be the first season with the Blaser, finally got it a week after the end of last season, typically :pac:......

German pointer

My new Zeiss range finder arrived today so will check zero over next day or so and hopefully be in position before dawn on Monday. I can nearly taste the fresh liver already.

German pointer

German pointer wrote: »

My new Zeiss range finder arrived today so will check zero over nexay or so and hopefully be in position before dawn on Monday. I can nearly taste the fresh liver already.

Was out today and Zeiss is fabulous. Clear glass I ranged deer to 600 and cows to 900 trees to 1400 yards I'm sure it'll do better when I see animals further away.

Have been out for the past few weeks watching some red does and fawns and for the first time today I saw the stag roll on Monday

Nightforce 65X55

Deer Licence arrived today, but I'm working Next week 24/7 , so it will have to be Sat at dawn for me...

clivej

Nightforce 65X55 wrote: »

Deer Licence arrived today, but I'm working Next week 24/7 , so it will have to be Sat at dawn for me...

Plenty of time to be getting out.

Nightforce 65X55

clivej wrote: »

Plenty of time to be getting out.

Yes i agree . I dont normally go out for the first couple of weeks until the madness settles down. But would have liked to get out this year as i didnt do a lot last year.

ecr

Boat ready for duck all day and the rifle ready for Tuesday morning for deer took the week off can't wait :-D

Cass

Completely knackered.

Was out this morning for about 5 hours, back for quick break and back out again. Doing a check for any lads "starting early" like last year, and then checking out spots for the morning.

Good news is the poxy loggers that destroyed last season for me are gone to a new site a few miles away and the deer have returned to my usual spots. Seen a few, excellent quality, and well at ease while grazing at 2 pm this afternoon.

So alarm is set and gear is laid out. Might not even hit the bed.

djflawless

I'm with you Cass!!