From a meet I went to last week in Fuzesgyarmat, Hungary:
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From a meet I went to last week in Fuzesgyarmat, Hungary:
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Fantastic!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chesapeakehawk
There's a happy Gosser right there!
Pete, I was thrilled to catch that day, notice the way the rabbits hair has blown, as was my own I guess, the gusts were 30+mph. I didn't think he was going to put it together, and I told my buddie we could always go get him if he missed in Jetmore, 10 miles downwind:DQuote:
Originally Posted by PeteJ
Ohhhh, and here we thought your cheeks were always pulled back tight like that!!LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by bobpayne
Goshawks often do well in wind. I'm not sure where the old adage about Goshawks and wind came from? Maybe they were talking about passage Goshawks or something.
Here’s a couple of pictures of the buck I killed about two weeks ago. Haven’t really been bowhunting since starting falconry. Almost get about the same rush from a good squirrel or rabbit flight or When a 160” buck walks under me. LOL. Sorry about the quality but they are cell pics.
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Damn nice buck, congrats!
Yeah Ryan! That thing beats the heck out of the 8-pointer that I just shot this week here in Maine. Well done!
Holy cow! Awesome buck!haill
How long are those back tines?
Nice buck. Here is the bear I shot this fall...
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Sweet bear Brian. I would love to kill one with my bow. Thanks guys, the back tines are both almost 13" He grossed 165" and netted 158. He is the second biggest buck I've killed.
I shot him with my granddad's Winchester 30-30 and finished him with my S&W .44 mountain gun (two of my favorite guns). Grandad hunted for years (killed elk and deer with that rifle) but never took a bear. Thing is...I could have easily killed him with my bow. He was 10 years old and about 300 lbs with loads of fat. Teeth were worn almost slick. Might try the bow next year.
I've posted these before but some of my favorite memories...
135 lb halibut and 16 lb silver
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My most memorable hunt. Tracked her for 40 miles in the mountains of Zimbabwe and shot her out of a herd of 21 cows...very dicey. First elephant known to have been killed with a lever gun (50 Alaskan caliber). Wrote a cover story for Safari magazine on this and also video'd the hunt. I would love to go back.
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Bryan,Quote:
Originally Posted by AK Rev
What do you do with that much dead elephant?
Regards,
Steve
Good question. We fed a village for a month that didn't have access to good protein. This was a tusk less female, which are very aggressive. The tusk less gene is about 3% of the population in Zim and the govt. wants them removed for good reason. LOTS of elephant over there.
Yah I was down there this last summer and the tuskless gene is a major problem. Because poachers are shooting for the tusks, they only kill those with tusks and so they are getting large increases in the number of elephants without tusks. This trait is not desirable for the elephants at all but due to the poaching it is becoming very prevalent, I guess letting hunters shoot the tuskless elephants would be a good fix to that problem, however the population as a whole is on a pretty severe decline from what they told us.
Hmmm...3% isn't exactly prevalent but it's still too many as they are aggressive around villages, etc. Zim has a lot of problems but lack of elephants isn't one of them. In 2007, there were around 300,000 elephants in Zim alone. That's a lot of elephants and they are far from endangered. In fact, they are well over the carrying capacity of the land. If you've ever seen ground that elephants have worked, it looks like bombs have gone off. Think of wild pigs that weigh 5 tons each and you'll get the idea. For this reason, wherever there are a lot of elephants, there isn't a lot of other game as they ruin the ground.
Brian that elephant is awesome!! Sounds like the trip of a life time. Congrats. Africa and a hunt out west is always in the back of my mind.
Just finished cutting and wraping my 9th big horn ewe in 12 years. No pics...nobody cares and that is just the way I like it. Guys always seem so disappointed when I tell them I filled my sheep tag... I wait two beats and say ewe. Then they tell me how many years they have been unsuccessfuly trying for a ram tag. I like to hunt and eat sheep, not lose lotterys.:D Had the tenderloins for dinner. Pardon the spelling, I also drink wine while cutting and wrapping.
Michael Gregston
Montana
Michael, that's a great success ratio. Is that a general draw or special unit? What weapon on all those ewes? I'm impressed and I don't say that very often!
Furthermore, targeting specific female animals can be very challenging. I could have killed several nice bull elephants easily (we stalked them for fun and got within a few feet of them). Targeting one specific female was tough! In the same way, it's fun to target the matriarch doe, turkey, etc.
Bryan,Quote:
Originally Posted by AK Rev
I appreciate the harvesting of big game for food, but I saw the elephant and couldn't help but think "he'll be eating elephant steaks for 17 years"! I suspected that your kill was shared locally. A good cause, no doubt...
http://visboo.com/what-happens-to-a-...-zimbabwe.html
Regards,
Steve
Bryan,
It is a special unit draw. I spend a lot of time finding a dry ewe within the band, then I make a careful neck shot from about 100' or less so I don't lose her over the edge. They are always near steep terrain. I use a Remington pump rifle with iron sights in '06.
Michael Gregston
Montana
Iron sights and taking that many sheep? That's hard core. If you're within 100', you should try a bow, pistol or blackpowder some time. You've certainly paid your dues with iron sights.
Here's some pretty cool video that was captured by one of our tag alongs on a grouse hawking trip. Unfortunately it's not of a falcon killing a grouse, but its still a cool example of the great show that nature puts on for us when we're out and about with our birds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSVu5Kp5HOg
I wish I'd been there with my .243 to settle that argument.....
Great caliber gun! For antelope I like my .22-250 thought ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by mainefalconer
Heres a couple pf pictures of a mates specially bred hounds. These are a blend of harrier, beagle, and terrier, they breed typey and smaller than standard foxhounds, making them very good at foxing in any area, we can use them on small estates where the fox packs are too big, and or near highways, we only need half a dozen or so, they will find foxes where ever they hide.........colin
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and results, the foxes up in the fells where i live tend to be very large
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Heres some random Taxidermy, a mate although hes an amatuer, is one of the top in the country, doing much of the museum work, heres some he aint completed yet....col
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this shows the plummage variation of the common buzzard
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Heres a few random pics
"who you looking at !"
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this is the real mcoy when it comes to "high bird shooting"
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", come on Dad where waiting "
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i think ive bit off more than i can chew !!
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Brilliant unc.
Colin - what is "high bird shooting"? I'm not understanding that photo.
they stand in sights and the game birds fly in over tops of trees and they shoot them as they come over top of them hint the name high bird shooting it is traditional shooting there
Colin,I like the looks of those foxhounds. I used to do alot of coonhunting with Bluetick coonhounds and rabbit hunting with bluetick beagles.
How do you hunt the foxes? Run them to ground and then use terriers?
Have any pictures of working patterdales or fells?
Nick , firstly i will sort out some patterdale terrier pics, they are very rated over here, the home of terriers, im sort of proud, that , the lakedland ,border and patterdale terriers where mostly created in cumbria, to hunt fox in the harsh fells. As for the hounds, we flush them out into the open, where they are either shot by strategicly placed guns, or coursed by lurchers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squirrelhawkin
Tanner, as harrishawk 79 says, high bird shooting is classed as the best , it also gives the game more chance of survival, it is looked down on over here, to shoot unsportingly, at either low or near birds. Game at the hight in the pics, is very sporting and hard to shoot, heavy loads are needed just to reach that height. col