Tracking an injured sika in Ireland
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2018
- What do you do when the shot goes wrong? A Swedish shooter and his Irish guide have to follow up an injured sika. Jens Ulrik Högh's shot is blighted by a - well you will find out what when you watch the film. Happily, Norman Mulvany of Irish Safaris has the right dog for the job - but will it find the animal before nightfall?
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Great looking country looks very similar to down here. Cheers Fieldsports!
Great mix of folk running around ireland , with guns ,
I am always fascinated to see Sika hunting in other countries and compare it to my experiences hunting them on Chincoteague Island off the coast of VA in the US. I hunted them there during the 1980-90s. I believe I took about eight of them during this period. Mostly yearlings and does. Only two were killed from a stand with the animals out in the open. I eventually found drives the best way to hunt. They tended to bed down in thick briars - particularly on any small patch of dry ground surrounded by water. I often almost stepped on them before they would jump up and run off about 30-50 yards, stop and let out a little bark, and then they would continue running off. I often compared it to rabbit hunting. I shot some on the run, but found that waiting for them to briefly stop running before shooting worked great. The choice I made probably depended mostly on what I was carrying to hunt with at the time - rifle or shotgun. I always took both a rifle and shotgun on this hunt if they were allowed in my selected zone. Hunt lasted two days. The animals were small there. Smallest yearling I saw weighed 24 lbs. dressed, but yearlings averaged 30-40 lbs. Does were 45-60 lbs. A Big Buck was 90+ lbs. Loved the meat. Sweat and cooked up with a reddish color. Far better than Whitetail meat! Unfortunately the VA Game Dept has been doing its best to eliminate them in the passing years. It was the hunt I looked forward to every year if I could get through the lottery.
Good man Norman from dragging the knee to leading dear hunts fair play would love to experience it
You should've claimed on is Swedish and one is in English, of course I watched it in swedish :D
Thanks for the beautiful Video :)
so did i man hahaha
makes me so proud, dont see much from the hunting community in Ireland.
Baltinglass in first few seconds :)
What happened to checking zero before u go out. If ya going to take an animals life the least u can do is make sure the zero is good especially If u gave cleaned rifle. it takes a couple of shots and saved the trauma of the animal.. all credit for fieldsports Britain for showing this wished they had made more of a point on why its important to check zero before u hunt..
zZ WIGGLY Zz. Well we'll wait for a reply but looking at what the offending item was I'd presume it wedged in on the trek out to the deer.
Full marks to the Fieldsports Channel for hosting this video. Given the amount of grief you get from antis it must be tempting to skip incidents like this pretending all is perfect with the fantasy that everything is a one shot kill. Life isn't like that though and showing the backup process is a great insight. Impressed by the channels honesty.
Watch the video again lol
dårlig skydning !