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Gents,

I thought I'd share a few photos from last evening of my son Will's first roe buck and first deer for that matter. We have tried on a few previous occasions but have been snookered by either the wrong sex showing for the season or nothing showing at all.

Anyway, he shot it perfectly at 116 yards from a highseat using my Sako 75 SS in .243 shooting an 85 grn Sierra HPBT and it dropped to the shot. We were in the Cotswolds near the village of Winson in Gloucestershire.













Kind regards,

Tim

Congrats and Gorgeous first Buck for the boy!

That’s a beautiful buck congratulations to Will and a great job to you Tim.

Excellent! And NICE Roe Deer!

That is so cool! Congrats all around.

Beautiful, relish the memory.

Brilliant! The look on your boy's face--and even more so on yours!-- is terrific. Big congrats to you both. A memory to last you both a lifetime, I'm sure.

Excellent experience for you and your son. Congratulations on starting a new hunter right.

Thankyou for your kind words Gents. It was a great evening in family history.

Kind regards,

Tim

Congratulations to you both.

As far as I'm aware, that's a really good Roe Buck, isn't it ?

Great pictures and job well done.

Awesome. Congrats to the young lad and yourself. Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations! Thanks for posting the account and photos.

I’m so glad I opened this thread, it brought a smile to my face. A big congrats to you and your son!

Thanks Paul. I think it had the makings of a very nice buck being nicely proportioned and symmetrical but it's a four pointer rather than a mature six pointer. It's a solid starter for Will though. He wants to have it skull mounted so I'll be sending it off to the taxidermist in the next day or two.

Thanks for all the comments Chaps, we appreciate them.

Kind regards,

Tim

Great job on both your parts! So happy to see the hunting community alive and well there.

You noted "We have tried on a few previous occasions but have been snookered by either the wrong sex showing for the season or nothing showing at all." How complicated are the season and rules there?

Thanks Pugs, there are six species of deer in Great Britain: red and roe that are indigenous and then we also have fallow, muntjac, sika and Chinese water deer that have been introduced at one time or another. The seasons for each species differ slightly between England & Wales and Scotland but there is always something in season regardless of the time of year. The seasons and law are probably best explained in the link below:


https://basc.org.uk/codes-of-practice/deer-stalking/


My brother, Will and I have access to ground in the Scottish Borders near to Moniaive and also in the Cotswolds where Will shot this roebuck.

Thanks for your interest,

Tim

Tim isn’t there a .243 minimum caliber restriction for Roe in England? But not in Scotland? If I remember correctly.

Tim,

Great link! You really do have an extended season. The firearm restrictions are interesting and seem kind of arbitrary between Eng/Wales, Scotland and the UK. There also seems to be little on bow or muzzleloader. Is that because there is no discrimination or little participation?

I was doing some work in Harrogate a few years ago and the opportunity came up to move over for 2-3 years. Pretty country in the north and apparently there was a syndicate looking for members which would have been nice. Alas, my wife had elderly family issues that prevented it. Suppose I'll have to live vicariously through the Keith Calder novels.

The law stipulates that for shooting roe in England and Wales you need a minimum calibre of .240 with a muzzle energy of 1,700 ft lbs. That really means that a .243 is generally taken as the minimum cartridge deemed suitable. In Scotland, a minimum bullet weight of 50 grns and muzzle energy of 1,000 ft lbs and velocity of 2,450 fps is required.

Tim