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This week, just gone I went up the High Country hunting
After years of hunting I was privy to an exceptional experience, on my latest trip this week.
Most things were wet, by the second day up there due to rain, low cloud, or fog, and we could not really get a decent fire happening, at night to warm up.
So its into the mighty Camper Trailer, rug up with 5 or 6 layers of clothes, and just "talking shit" till about 11:30pm, and planning the next day's hunting with my buddy, also an experienced hunter.
About 2:30am we were woken by a "honking deer".
Cheeky thing, I thought........better get the rifle and have a look, but the fog was that thick, visibility, (with torch) was about 30 yards.
It was not worth getting the rifle out.
Then for the next 1/2 hr that deer was honking heaps, and I figured it was being answered by another honking deer.
One of them was being guided to safety, or maybe both lost.
So I joined in and got answered, then I howled like a dog, and got answered. Then I just laid back and soaked up this experienced.
"Kenty" my mate, was also amazed by the amount of honking that was going on.
At one stage there was 3 - 4 honks a minute, sometimes more.
I had lost count just how many but there was absolute heaps.
Man, those deer were going off.
Am home now, with no Bambi, but I recon most people would never get honked at that much, in a lifetime.
Cheers
Bucky
After years of hunting I was privy to an exceptional experience, on my latest trip this week.
Most things were wet, by the second day up there due to rain, low cloud, or fog, and we could not really get a decent fire happening, at night to warm up.
So its into the mighty Camper Trailer, rug up with 5 or 6 layers of clothes, and just "talking shit" till about 11:30pm, and planning the next day's hunting with my buddy, also an experienced hunter.
About 2:30am we were woken by a "honking deer".
Cheeky thing, I thought........better get the rifle and have a look, but the fog was that thick, visibility, (with torch) was about 30 yards.
It was not worth getting the rifle out.
Then for the next 1/2 hr that deer was honking heaps, and I figured it was being answered by another honking deer.
One of them was being guided to safety, or maybe both lost.
So I joined in and got answered, then I howled like a dog, and got answered. Then I just laid back and soaked up this experienced.
"Kenty" my mate, was also amazed by the amount of honking that was going on.
At one stage there was 3 - 4 honks a minute, sometimes more.
I had lost count just how many but there was absolute heaps.
Man, those deer were going off.
Am home now, with no Bambi, but I recon most people would never get honked at that much, in a lifetime.
Cheers
Bucky