Thats a wrap!

This picture of the sun rising on Sunday mornig is a great wrap to the Roedeer season for me, too bad no deers were taken but there´s not long until it opens on 16th of August. There will probably be very calm on hunting pics over the summer, im only going for some Crows at my summerhouse on my summer vacation i June-July.
There will be some call making during the summer too when im not fishing Pike and Trout, i´ll be making five calls out of a Moose antler i got hold of from my friend who invited me to this last hunt for "Roe". Pics on progress will be posted during.......

Got the beaver trophy mounted.

I mounted the teeth only of the beaver beacuse the skull had cracked into shreds, i even had to glue one tooth (the long on the right) as it also cracked on the bullet impact.
I did it a kind "hog like" mount but it turned out nice i think.

Daughters first day in the forest.

On sunday it was time to take out my family for a day in the woods, it was my 5 1/2 month daughters first time and she got so many impressions that she fell asleep after two hours in the backpack.
The dog though desperatly tried to find some Foxes to drive but there was nothing moving daytime so we had a calm day. Off for my first spring hunt on Roedeer this weekend i cant wait, im spending one night at friends house and were off to hunt one evening and one morning.

I´m also gonna show him my Custom calls for fox and if there is time we´ll try them to see if we get any contact, too bad the season for Fox is over but you can allways look.

Got the big one!

This big male Beaver got out of the water
to eat just as the sun had set and the birds were starting
to silence, i got a clean shot from 30 meters with my win.308 and he dropped instanly.

After taking this picture i used a scale standing on it with the beaver i my arms, reducing my 100 kg (220lb) from 133 i was stunned i didn´t think they grew that heavy as 33kg (72lb).

I forgot to measure its length but im 187cm tall and my gun is 98 cm so that gives you a pretty good picture of its overall size.

Recon the area

During the Saturday afternoon me and by
brother in law (in pic) were out on a "Beaver recon"
and found this path. The beavers had been really
busy making this "highway". The weather was awsome
and it looked as if there would be perfect conditions
for the evening hunt. In the picture of the
boatstand you can actually see that the beavers have eaten on the pole holding the stand.

The Beaver is still on!

All thats left before the summers practice shooting and Crow hunts is the Beaver hunt that is open until May 15, i havent had much luck previous season with the Beaver but this year i´ve seen that the Beaver family in my hunting area has expanded so there is a slight chance for me this time.

I´m off for the first hunt in two weeks from now if all goes right so i´ll keep you posted on the progress with the hunting and there will also be some post on my custom calls that are to be made this spring.

Fox season closed!

This fox season closed for me this weekend as i dont get any more time off hunting before 31 March, i managed to complete my goal with this season wich was learning to call a predator and then take it down now i cant wait until next foxseason wich opens August 1:st.

I have the guys on Predatormasters Forum to thank alot for inspiration and also Ulf on the magazine "Svensk Jakt" who really opened my eyes for the call hunt on fox. But none of this would have been possible if Mr.Rich Cronk From Iowa havent sent me one of his cutom calls so thanks alot Rich for the call and the instruction CD.