Its been basically since Cody could remember that he wanted a "like you dad". A "like you" was a Fallow deer, like the one on my garage wall. It is hard if not impossible to get Fallow Deer down these parts, bit easier 2 - 300 km inland - but they all booked for foreign hunters and priced in dollars.
There is another way,find a farm where there are not enough deer to bring clients out with a reasonable chance of success, but enough chance to actually get one if you hunt for days on end.
but then , these farms usually have the deer reserved for the sons, perhaps family.
I have been trying to get a fallow deer farm for about 8 years now.
I found one, eventually I found a farm with fallow deer and permission to hunt. The farm is really, really hard terrain (third visit smashed my bakkie). The Fallow deer are there, but as per photo's, its hard long hunting.
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20240817_081257 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr
There are flat spots down there, but they farmed, the deer are up here.
20240817_084056 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr
We tried hunting them from the top, because they would be midway up mountain, generally looking down.
The gearbox seems to have overheated ? dunno, took 500 ml oil easily. Not sure what the problem is here.
20240817_110300 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr
The boy was tired,if you look in background, that long valley ? We had come all way down over that mountain around that round hillock above Cody"s head.
20240817_162849 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr
