Sunday 4 August 2013

Deerstalking in Wiltshire Pt1

The Fallow Buck season opened on the 1st: yesterday, following many trials and tribulations Hunter X, myself and X's pal Hunter Y managed to get afield in time for dawn. No one has hunted the estate for months and even the woodsman hasn't been in down some of the rides through the forest for the last month. Hunter X and I sat up in a highseat at dawn and watched groups of Does milling about, the third group to arrive were accompanied by this Pricket He's in the fridge.
Full report to come
SBW

18 comments:

tai haku said...

Nice! It looks like that is one of the light morph ones? If so are they common on that patch (must confess to being a bit old skool and preferring the darker/classic colour morphs)?

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Tai

No not on this patch anyway, HunterX believes that a very dark Master Buck passed through the area a few seasons ago, as the herd are darker than they used to be.

In the south east The Bambi Basher and i once saw a mixed sex group that were all very pale - from weimaraner to almost a true white. Sadly not on a bit of land we had permission to shoot on.
SBW

Anonymous said...

What twerp stuck a couple of bracken fronds in its mouth?

Before you know it people will be playing the tuba and pouring 110% proof fire lighter fuel down their necks in celebration.

Jeez, give me strength......

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Chees I knew I'd forgotten something.SBW

hodgeman said...

Must read the full story.... details please.

What's wrong with tubas and 110 proof ?

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Hodge that would be
Difficult to transport and leads me into bad ways.LOL
SBW

Anonymous said...

What's wrong with tubas and 110 proof ?

Nothing by themselves. Its when you put them together with stuffing green veg down some dead animals throat at the end of a hunt that I find utterly pointless.

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Good job i left them at home then, I wouldn't want an anonymous commenter to feel pointless
SBW

Anonymous said...

SBW
FYI I have never felt pointless.

But I do find the stuffing of green veg in the mouths of dead animals, the honking of horns over their dead bodies, and the toasting of their recent departure to be pointless. Add the muttering of some thanks to their recently departed spirit and you have a full set of pointless rituals.

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Anon

Thanks i'll change my behaviour accordingly, your approval means everything to me
SBW

Anonymous said...

SBW

"Thanks i'll change my behaviour accordingly, your approval means everything to me"

Hey, don't change on my account....

All that respect for the quarry and communing with nature bs. Dead is dead, all I know is the bloody deer or boar don't give a stuff either way. I put it down to some people just like pouncing about.

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Anon

Well yes in a literal sense dead is dead, or in the slaughterhouse dead can be 'too dead'.

From the still limited research I've done it would seem that the rituals surrounding animals deaths at the hunters hand all have their roots in conservation and hygiene, I'll be writing about this later as and when research time permits.
SBW
PS how about adding a name to your comments, it makes it easier to differentiate between Annon's, like taking off your motorbike helmet or burka?


Anonymous said...

Well yes in a literal sense dead is dead, or in the slaughterhouse dead can be 'too dead'.

From the still limited research I've done it would seem that the rituals surrounding animals deaths at the hunters hand all have their roots in conservation and hygiene, I'll be writing about this later as and when research time permits.
SBW
PS how about adding a name to your comments, it makes it easier to differentiate between Annon's, like taking off your motorbike helmet or burka?

Dead is dead, be it literal and more important actual.
I fail to see have stuffing green vegetation in a dead beast gob helps conservation or hygiene in the slightest. The same goes for the puffing on horns or the muttering of incantations whilst one goes about the laying on of hands. Rapid evisceration followed by chilling to below 4 degrees whilst making sure your haven't contaminate the carcase with spilled body fluids or stomach content is the only things I know of that help with hygiene if the carcase is to be hung for any length of time. Prompt consumption having ensured that the meat has been cooked sufficiently in order to kill of any of the bugs that might be present also works at the other end of the time scale.

I belatedly acknowledge your request regarding differentiating commenters.

Atb

Wilf

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Wilf

As you'll no doubt have noticed I'm still interested in atavism you're still not interested in atavism.

My thinking on the subject is something new to me and therefore far to early to write about.

but thanks for stopping by
SBW

Anonymous said...

White-eye Wilf-you no got'em spirit know-how. You bin livin' whiteman city too long. Respect for spirit, not dead meat. No respect spirit, hunting not so good next time maybe. You get'm disease not respect'um spirit, too. You no believ'um spirit, you in for big heap suprise when you croak! Let hair grow out long, maybe good dream then come to you to teach you bout spirit medicine things.....L.B.

Anonymous said...

Sbw
"As you'll no doubt have noticed I'm still interested in atavism you're still not interested in atavism."

Got it in one!
Never have been interested in atavism. I take enough pleasure out of using modern firearms to kill my quarry without the need to go muttering word to the great spirit, chucking spears at wooly mammoths or to make my own clothes out of stinging nettles in order to feel closer to nature and my ancestors.

Atb
Wilf

Anonymous said...

L.B.

In the words of Jim Royle

"spirit medicine", my arse!

Atb

Wilf

Anonymous said...

Yes, Wilf, spirit medicine work for arse too. How your arse givin' you trubble? Mebbe I can suggest proper herbs. Mebbe you just need wipe better. Not wipe'um arse can affect temperment. Attract heap much flies, too. Plus, deer smell you comin' way far! Mebbe that why whiteman need'um far shootin' gun!......L.B.