Did a bit of hunting this weekend. Left the house about an hour before daylight yesterday. Upon coming to the first creek I looked out onto the wide gravel bed and in the predawn darkness saw two animals. It took my brain about 4-5 seconds to realize what I was looking at. Pigs!! Two wild boar. At that point I was scrambling to get my pack off and the gun loaded. By that time they had crossed the creek and disappeared. No shots fired. Hiking further up the creek I seen 4 Red Deer. Could have shot two of them but they were a spike and a hind (female). A bit farther up I spotted a nice Chamois laying across the canyon. They're a type of goat-antelope native to the European Alps. Could only get about 3-400 yards from it as I ran out of cover. Fired a couple of shots but missed. Continuing farther up at the headwaters of the creek I spotted 3 spike Red Deer. Again had good shot opportunity but passed. All in all I hiked up the creek about 5 miles. So a easy 10 mile day. And I was gone right at 13 hours. But a great day. Seen 8 Red Deer, 1 Chamois, and 2 Wild Boar. Just great to see so many critters.
After missing the Chamois yesterday I figured it would be good to shoot the gun. So I took Oscar and we did a bit of target shooting first. Then went and shot some Hares. As I suspected the gun (.270) was off quite a bit. Got that dialed in to avoid any more misses. Then Oscar shot the .17 cal. After confirming that is was shooting on target we got down to business shooting Hares. I shot 7 and he shot 1. His first hare and he drilled it from 93 yards. Not sure who was more excited, him or me! A really fun afternoon.
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