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Hi all, I just returned home yesterday from my first Roe deer hunt in Spain, so now like Africa I think I'm hooked on hunting Roe deer! My hunt was with Francisco Rosich and his company Hunt Trip Spain. I met Francisco and his wife Joelle at the 2024 DSC show. While at their booth @JES Adventures was visiting with them and he highly recommended a hunt with Hunt Trip Spain so they quickly made my short list of Spain hunting options. After returning home from DSC I saw a Roe deer auction hunt which Hunt Trip Spain had donated to the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo, so thought what the heck I may as well bid on it. Well I won the bid for the hunt so it was all set, I was going to do my first trip to Spain and hunt for Roe deer with Hunt Trip Spain.
I quickly booked dates for the hunt for April 2025 and my wife and I began planning our trip to Spain. We arrived into Barcelona on April 16th and were picked up by Geri who would be our PH for the hunt. Geri was great to hunt with and a lot of fun through out the week. We got to the country home/lodge that Francisco and Joelle own about an hour out of Barcelona. The country side was beautiful, very green and lush with yellow fields of canola blooming everywhere. They had been in drought for the past 3-4 years and had been getting lots of rain recently so the green fields were a welcome sight. After shooting Geri's Tikka .270 WSM and a bit of lunch and a nap, we headed out that evening for our first hunt. Francisco has quite a bit of property he owns or has exclusive hunting rights to all around his home so there was no need to travel far to hunt. We saw and glassed probably 25+ roe deer that first evening with a couple of decent bucks seen but nothing under 300 yards away so decided not to try any shots that evening. The next morning we were up early and at the top of the hills to glass an area where Geri had been seeing a large roe buck recently to see if we could find him, We glassed another really nice buck about 200 yards out and I had him in the crosshairs but he never seemed to stop moving and I wasn't sure if Geri wanted me to shoot or wait. After the opportunity was gone I told Geri if he thought it was a shooter and wanted me to take a shot that he needed to give me the go ahead as I had no basis for judging them and was waiting on his direction. We saw several more deer that morning but nothing we wanted to take a shot on so we headed back to the lodge about 9:30 for some breakfast. That afternoon my wife and I went to Montserrat to tour some and do a short hike but we made sure to be back to head out hunting by 6:30PM. It was pretty windy that evening and not as many deer moving, plus we had a group of wild boar move into the fields we were glassing which seemed to spook the deer.
Friday morning we were up early again and headed to the fields they had seen the bigger roe bucks recently, the deer movement seemed to be quiet this morning but the weather was beautiful. We quickly glassed a couple of different spots and ended back overlooking the group of wheat fields we had sat on the first evening and had seen a nice buck at 300 yards. We were about to give up around 8:30 to move to a different area as we had only seen 2 females when suddenly I alerted Geri to 2 deer running quickly across one of the fields out about 400 yards away. We glassed them quickly and could see they were 2 bucks with the larger one chasing off a young buck. We watched them run close to a mile across a couple of fields and some woods before the bigger buck stopped and started easing back towards the fields we were watching. He slowly worked his way back to the field right below us but was in the shadows and hard to judge his size. After about 20 minutes watching him he finally ended up about 200 yards away along a field edge and we could see he had nice 3x3 horns and was the buck from the first evening. I laid down on a big rock using a bipod on the rifle and a pack under my elbow to get steady as the buck waled across one field toward us. Finally at 160 yards he stopped on the edge of the field and I took the shot hitting him hard. He ran about 30 yards and nose dived into some bushes along the field. I watched him thru the scope for 5 minutes to make sure he wasn't moving, the way he fell it looked like he was standing but with no movement at all we decided he was done and we went down to collect him. I was thrilled to have my first roe buck.
Overall it was a great trip and my wife and I got to tour several areas around Barcelona. Looking forward to doing another roe deer hunt. We will be back to the Pyrenees in October to do a chamois hunt with Franciso's younger brother Bruno Rosich and his company Trophy Hunting Spain.
I quickly booked dates for the hunt for April 2025 and my wife and I began planning our trip to Spain. We arrived into Barcelona on April 16th and were picked up by Geri who would be our PH for the hunt. Geri was great to hunt with and a lot of fun through out the week. We got to the country home/lodge that Francisco and Joelle own about an hour out of Barcelona. The country side was beautiful, very green and lush with yellow fields of canola blooming everywhere. They had been in drought for the past 3-4 years and had been getting lots of rain recently so the green fields were a welcome sight. After shooting Geri's Tikka .270 WSM and a bit of lunch and a nap, we headed out that evening for our first hunt. Francisco has quite a bit of property he owns or has exclusive hunting rights to all around his home so there was no need to travel far to hunt. We saw and glassed probably 25+ roe deer that first evening with a couple of decent bucks seen but nothing under 300 yards away so decided not to try any shots that evening. The next morning we were up early and at the top of the hills to glass an area where Geri had been seeing a large roe buck recently to see if we could find him, We glassed another really nice buck about 200 yards out and I had him in the crosshairs but he never seemed to stop moving and I wasn't sure if Geri wanted me to shoot or wait. After the opportunity was gone I told Geri if he thought it was a shooter and wanted me to take a shot that he needed to give me the go ahead as I had no basis for judging them and was waiting on his direction. We saw several more deer that morning but nothing we wanted to take a shot on so we headed back to the lodge about 9:30 for some breakfast. That afternoon my wife and I went to Montserrat to tour some and do a short hike but we made sure to be back to head out hunting by 6:30PM. It was pretty windy that evening and not as many deer moving, plus we had a group of wild boar move into the fields we were glassing which seemed to spook the deer.
Friday morning we were up early again and headed to the fields they had seen the bigger roe bucks recently, the deer movement seemed to be quiet this morning but the weather was beautiful. We quickly glassed a couple of different spots and ended back overlooking the group of wheat fields we had sat on the first evening and had seen a nice buck at 300 yards. We were about to give up around 8:30 to move to a different area as we had only seen 2 females when suddenly I alerted Geri to 2 deer running quickly across one of the fields out about 400 yards away. We glassed them quickly and could see they were 2 bucks with the larger one chasing off a young buck. We watched them run close to a mile across a couple of fields and some woods before the bigger buck stopped and started easing back towards the fields we were watching. He slowly worked his way back to the field right below us but was in the shadows and hard to judge his size. After about 20 minutes watching him he finally ended up about 200 yards away along a field edge and we could see he had nice 3x3 horns and was the buck from the first evening. I laid down on a big rock using a bipod on the rifle and a pack under my elbow to get steady as the buck waled across one field toward us. Finally at 160 yards he stopped on the edge of the field and I took the shot hitting him hard. He ran about 30 yards and nose dived into some bushes along the field. I watched him thru the scope for 5 minutes to make sure he wasn't moving, the way he fell it looked like he was standing but with no movement at all we decided he was done and we went down to collect him. I was thrilled to have my first roe buck.
Overall it was a great trip and my wife and I got to tour several areas around Barcelona. Looking forward to doing another roe deer hunt. We will be back to the Pyrenees in October to do a chamois hunt with Franciso's younger brother Bruno Rosich and his company Trophy Hunting Spain.
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