Good Roe Doe this afternoon!
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Topic: Good Roe Doe this afternoon!
Posted By: flanker
Subject: Good Roe Doe this afternoon!
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 2:54am
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I shot this doe this afternoon. She was in a very large field of turnips with three others. The stalk involved a 300m crawl across wet ground and was very painstaking because there were four pairs of eyes. After about one hour the shot was taken at 100m with my Parker Hale No 4 Supreme and a home loaded 125gr Sierra spitzer driven by 39.5gr of H4895. The doe ran about 70m before collapsing, on inspection the shot was central to the chest and had a 30mm exit wound.
She weighs 21.5kg after the gralloch. I'm very pleased.
 ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
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Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 3:59am
Very Nice! I suspect venison shall be on the menu soon.  ------------- Have a Nice Day If already having a nice day please disregard |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 6:17am
| Nice hunt! I have the same rifle as yours', minus the short magazine, mine had the regular 10 rounder in it when I purchased it. That rifle is my trusty deer rifle and comes with me on every hunt. |
Posted By: lmao_37
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 6:24am
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Nice looking deer. The stalk must have been real hard and 3 other deer close by any moment they could have run off what a great days hunting. |
Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 7:07am
It took a bit of concentration... ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
lmao_37 wrote:Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 7:09am
I knew it was my rifle as soon as I picked it up in the shop. ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 7:43am
| Those rifles feel great every time you lift it to your eye, balanced, light weight...just love mine! Even if I don't use it on a particluar hunt, it stays in my truck as a back-up but mostly, like 90% of the time it is slung over my right shoulder. I like your deers' colours. Do you keep any of the fur to make fly fishing lures out of? |
Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 2:40pm
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Funny you should ask. I don't usually but this one has a very thick winter coat and I think I will.
------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 11:46pm
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Great gun and a great doe. Wish I was there. Paddy ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: llaszloboehm
Date Posted: February 09 2013 at 4:57pm
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Hi Flanker! congratualtions!!! I´ve never seen a doe that heavy over here on the continent. Wonderfull! Your crawling method is real hardcore, I know that from my stalkings in the Hungarian plains. For us, people of 45+, lowest level of slidig becomes real challenge, but Enfield people only give up wehen they`r dead!
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Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 09 2013 at 7:37pm
Hahaha!  Thanks very much Llaszlo, I've done a long crawl before when red deer stalking on the hill but that's the first time on an open field. It works, I'll do it again but I was, very,very stiff for the next couple of days  . If you're going to try it I'd say the key points are:
------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: Halfling
Date Posted: February 09 2013 at 10:03pm
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Very nice flanker! Well done! I sure would be interested in learning how to turn my No.1MK4 into something like your configuration. Any suggestions.  ------------- John Goldwing Rider 2003 GL1800A Candy Durango Red US Navy Retired EWC(SW) Proud Member of the NRA and GOA |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 12:24am
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I learned how to low crawl in Army Basis Training in 1976. It is slow but gets the job done. Adds to the thrill of the hunt. Ed ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 2:53am
You could easliy do that. Is that also a Parker Hale conversion, looks as if it could be a PH No4 Deluxe. I think you could buy a Monte Carlo stock for a No 4, and add a S+K one piece mount with rings and you'd have something like mine. You might need to decide if you wanted them chequered. Is that a 5-round mag you have already? The S+K mount is attached by using the same fixings as the the standard rear site and the stock fixes in the same way as the standard one. Your's looks slightly different in the photo but it may just be the angle it's shown from. ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: muffett.2008
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 4:09am
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Gotta say, there's one thing about the crawl, you get really close to nature.
Eye to eye with ants, able to caress all sorts of p***kly flora.......yeah.
Well how 'bout that, it would be a bugger if I swore Pr(i)ckly. |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 5:20am
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Just watch out for those doggie and other critters "land mines"
------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Halfling
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 9:26am
------------- John Goldwing Rider 2003 GL1800A Candy Durango Red US Navy Retired EWC(SW) Proud Member of the NRA and GOA |
Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 4:22pm
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Are there any markings on the front sight. That's the only place mine has a PH mark.
The rear sight isn't original to a No 4. It should have a flip up, screw adjusted, graduated rear sight, That could be easily added, it mounts on the same pin as your peep sight. The S+K scope mount is also fitted using that pin and has also has mounting block that fits inside the charger bridge. ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: Halfling
Date Posted: February 11 2013 at 9:00am
Oops! There it is as plan as day on the front sight, "Parker Hale"!  ------------- John Goldwing Rider 2003 GL1800A Candy Durango Red US Navy Retired EWC(SW) Proud Member of the NRA and GOA |
Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 11 2013 at 4:21pm
So, you already have a classic English conversion then! That's definitely not a bubba rifle. I have a scanned copy of the original PH catalogue page which shows your rifle and mine. PM me your email address and I'll send it to you. ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: flanker
Date Posted: February 11 2013 at 5:37pm
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The PH catalogue stills are available here: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?115161-SMLE-Parker-Hale-sporter&highlight=parker. I think you'll see your rifle is a Deluxe No 4. ------------- Life is full of possibilities, 50% of them are likely to good.... |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: February 12 2013 at 5:20am
| nice rifle , |