HunterFisher

Got a chance to hunt a property in the Glenn Innis region of NSW last weekend.
This area holds large numbers of Fallow as well as foxes, goats, pigs and rabbits.
The place  we were on held really good numbers of fallow but they were right up there with some of  the jumpiest deer I have ever hunted. Though I saw many it wasn't until the second day that I actually got to put in a stalk on a doe that wasn't actually onto me first.
I got within 28 yards of her and was just getting ready to shoot, when basically all the bird noise around told her, things wern't quite right and she just walked off.

Each morning we had seen a mob of deer leaving a paddock not far from our camp site. They were going under the fence in the same place each day.
In desperation I set up an ambush basically in some rocks.
This was over looking the point in the fence where they were crossing.

I got my mate to walk around the boundary to try and push any unseen animals though. Well he did that and I thought it wasn't happening until I saw three deer cautiously enter the paddock and head towards me..

These deer were so jumpy that even the slightest movement of me ranging them would bring them to alert, though I was well concealed in some rocks.

They decided to cross the fence a bit far for my liking at 55 yards. Still I had been practising my long shots and felt reasonably confident. 

Just as the first doe was about to go under the fence I came to full draw and released.

I knew there was a fair chance that I would miss or hit the fence strands or at that range the deer would jump out the way of the shot. So I was quite surprised to hear that sound of an arrow thumping into an animal ( any of you that have shot animals with a bow will know what I mean )

My binos came up and I watched them as they trotted as a group back into the paddock.

In the back of my mind I think I sensed one of them didn't just look right and I was really happy when only a few seconds later she fell over with her feet in the air.

A clean pass through that was a bit far back. A bit of an autopsy revealed a broadhead through the liver does them in pretty quickly..
I picked up my arrow and now I have a lucky montec broad-head. I wonder if I can shoot any more with it..

I was stoked and now I have a nice winter Fallow skin to go with my chital 

Thanks for reading...