Silverback said:
I am making an educated guess that he is not a true albino - Fallow have an incredibly diverse colouration ranging from literally black to white, also you can see that the eyes have retained pigment as opposed to being pink. He looks like a prime cull animal given the poor head - Well Done! What calibre did you use to send him to the great pasture in the sky?
No doubt I will be reminded by someone that I should, at this time of year, be concentrating on shooting does whilst theyre in season notwithstanding that in doing so chances are Ill inevitably shoot the odd buck fawn or pricket (both stereotypical cull animals) anyway.
The poorish head of this three-year-old was not the reason for adding it to the cull but the beast's colour was. Whilst I do not at all dislike seeing such deer outside of deer parks; Knowle in Sevenoaks being just one where youll find them, who am I to question the Deer Managers approach in this particular forest!
With regard to which calibre I used Im more than a little hesitant to disclose such as Im afraid it will sound unbelievable pretentious. But here goes anyway!
When I first decided to build a truly custom hand-built (Precision Rifles Scotland) rifle I figured why not go the whole hog and have one in a wildcat (non standard) chambering. Once that decision was made it seemed wholly sensible to design a cartridge of my own! So the 250 Klenchblaize (or K250) was born and this is what youll see stamped on the chamber & action by the London Proof House!!
My interesting cartridge is based on the 6X47 Swiss Match round made my Ruag munitions. The quality of brass they produce is second to none very much a deciding factor in choosing this as parent case so to speak. From there we had custom chambering reamers and Redding dies made that enable the neck to be opened-up to .25 and the case then fire-formed to give the case a much sharper shoulder. Even when fire-forming the rifle will put ten shots into a ragged hole at 100 yards. Clearly there is more to it than that, like turning the necks for concentricity and correct bullet tension when loaded into the semi-match proportioned neck area of the chamber but this is, after all, a bushcraft site!
The 6X47SM case is smaller than a 243 but a little larger than a 6mm BR. I do NOT like hard kicking cartridges although I acknowledge this may have a lot to do with my poor rifle holding style that lets a rifle jump about in my shoulder somewhat! I use an 87g bullet atop 37.5graines of Varget powder for a very deer-legal crack.
Cheers