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Well home again after another full week in the country. What can I say, beats the hell out of working for a living
!!!
This trip I probably shot more critters with the camera than I did with the rifle, a couple of reasons for this
1) I do like taking photographs . DUH
2) We dont have a big freezer at home and I have all the venison that it can take, after the trip in March I also filled a mates freezer up and I do not generally just shoot deer for the sake of it (well on the property we HAVE to cull the numbers, it was so many last year it really was impossible to bring all the meat out, over 1500 deer in total) and I didnt see a Buck that was big enough to warrant taking as a trophy. I of course DID level a number of hogs . They really do make my homicidal (icidal for all the comedians..!!!) gene twitch !!
The weather was OK, warm at the start (unseasonably) and then lost a whole day/night to rain heavy rain, then cold really cold for the rest of the week I can live with it. On the plus side .this time around NO snakes and NO leaches ..!!! Small bonuses I guess !! The guys there the week before saw several snakes so I was being careful but not a one seen by me !!!!!
The company was great, next year I am not going to take much food with me as one of the guys I hunt with is Croatian and lives to feed those around him, he arrives with so much food he ends up feeding the better part of five of us all week, no thanks is not something he understands when it comes to an offer of food it generally goes Andrea, fu&king would you like some venison fu&king (if you dont know how to speak Croatian he tells me you just add fu&king at the start and finish of each sentence) I will reply John, no thanks mate, I have steaks/chicken/dead lizard etc with me I need to eat . Then it is Andrea ..Andrea .fu&king where upon he either serves up my meal or adds my share to what he is cooking !! This past week we had (courtesy of him) Venison and Pork sausages (all from game he took on our visit in March), Venison Goulash, homemade Minestrone, fish soup (he also has a fishing boat so when he is not filling the freezer with pork or venison he is catching fish), about 200kgs of bacon and lots of fresh vegetables.
Anyway my shooting was 100% this trip (only missed one shot last trip
) four shots four hogs
cant complain about that
!!
So some pictures .
The antlers over the gate into out little hut..
The fireplace (it got a good workout once the temps dropped)
My corner of the hut for several (probably ten) years..
This trip I probably shot more critters with the camera than I did with the rifle, a couple of reasons for this
1) I do like taking photographs . DUH
2) We dont have a big freezer at home and I have all the venison that it can take, after the trip in March I also filled a mates freezer up and I do not generally just shoot deer for the sake of it (well on the property we HAVE to cull the numbers, it was so many last year it really was impossible to bring all the meat out, over 1500 deer in total) and I didnt see a Buck that was big enough to warrant taking as a trophy. I of course DID level a number of hogs . They really do make my homicidal (icidal for all the comedians..!!!) gene twitch !!
The weather was OK, warm at the start (unseasonably) and then lost a whole day/night to rain heavy rain, then cold really cold for the rest of the week I can live with it. On the plus side .this time around NO snakes and NO leaches ..!!! Small bonuses I guess !! The guys there the week before saw several snakes so I was being careful but not a one seen by me !!!!!
The company was great, next year I am not going to take much food with me as one of the guys I hunt with is Croatian and lives to feed those around him, he arrives with so much food he ends up feeding the better part of five of us all week, no thanks is not something he understands when it comes to an offer of food it generally goes Andrea, fu&king would you like some venison fu&king (if you dont know how to speak Croatian he tells me you just add fu&king at the start and finish of each sentence) I will reply John, no thanks mate, I have steaks/chicken/dead lizard etc with me I need to eat . Then it is Andrea ..Andrea .fu&king where upon he either serves up my meal or adds my share to what he is cooking !! This past week we had (courtesy of him) Venison and Pork sausages (all from game he took on our visit in March), Venison Goulash, homemade Minestrone, fish soup (he also has a fishing boat so when he is not filling the freezer with pork or venison he is catching fish), about 200kgs of bacon and lots of fresh vegetables.
Anyway my shooting was 100% this trip (only missed one shot last trip
) four shots four hogs
cant complain about that
!!So some pictures .
The antlers over the gate into out little hut..
The fireplace (it got a good workout once the temps dropped)
My corner of the hut for several (probably ten) years..
