Last evening, Buck No 3

After some more outings in difficult conditions without seeing a shot able buck I decided to change the hunting area on the last evening. I picked up my guide and went to our target area, to find it heavily populated with humans, so we had to move on the another place.
After a few young bucks and does, we saw another doe lonely feeding in the meadow, as we came closer we saw a buck laying close to her in the grass. We identified him as a good one and had to jell again to get him up. Both moved a few meters to stand and look, time enough to pay him a shot. He turned around twice and went down, Buck 3 was in the bag.

My guide suggested that we should have a look for a fox as darkness approached, so we did it.
Short before it became too dark a fox entered the scene and was shot, a good conclusion of a nice hunting trip.

Buck No. 2

After 2 morning outings and an evening without success, we realised that the hunt wasn't as easy as the year before, for instance the deer were not reacting on any calling, which was quit strange.
Meanwhile the weather became warmer and warmer with temperatures peaking at 38°C, which made the deer moving late or in the night.
On the 3rd evening we checked around a bit but couldn't see any buck, so we decided to sit down on a stand and wait for some action to come.
After around 1 1/2 hour a buck was chasing a doe out of a corn field into the open space, they circled around for a few minutes to disappear back into the corn again. Than a few minutes later the doe came out alone and moved back.

With approaching darkness we saw a deer coming out of the corn around 200m away from us. It started moving along the edge of the field towards our stand, we could see that it was the buck from before. Some 150m away from us the buck started moving away from the edge into the field. We had to jell again to stop his move, I payed him a shot which was aimed to low leaving him standing in a cloud of dust. Reloading and the second shot went into the shoulder, the buck run 20m and went down.

Roebuck hunting trip to Hungary

Beginning of August was the time again for our annual Roebuck hunting trip to Hungary. The rutting season was in full action already at the time we arrived. I went out whit my guide on the first evening to the place where I got my second to last buck in the last year. We saw a lot of deer, some young bucks and and doe's, but our target buck entered the scene with coming darkness only and there was no chance to place a shot on him. The next morning we checked some other spots without success to come back to the place of the evening before. We where glassing the area as a good buck and a doe came out of a corn field, the buck was chasing the doe criss and cross and finally disappeared into another strip of corn. We changed place closer to the strip of maize and waited for the deer to show up again. Nothing happened for around 15 minutes as the buck came out of the adjacent forest walking towards the maize again. I jelled on him to stop his move with success to place a shot behind the shoulder, he turned, run around 30 m and went down, Buck no 1 was in the bag.