Yesterday, Tim, me and Andrew visited the new patch for our second hunt of the season there. We worked the property from a different angle to last time, working the southern boundary first. Set a couple of cunning pincer movements in play and almost got payoff once or twice. A still quiet day made for hard stalking and we had birds getting out ahead or to the side all day. (A dog is becoming a must now). I saw 10 roosters, put shots on 3 and had bead on two others that may have been roosters - or hens (Andrew confirmed one as a rooster) - better to be safe than sorry I suppose. We got 2 hares, a rabbit, and at the very last patch of cover at the very end of the day I managed a rooster.
One of a pair that jumped - well the second jumped after I had fired both shots on the first bird. A beer with the land owner, a chat about how good we have it and then off home. Tim gave me some fallow venison, just to round out the day.
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