Deer!
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Well this weekend was the annual 10 hunters to 1 deer family trip…
My brother in law and I had hatched a master plan to get my sister her 1st deer. She is rather impatient when it comes to any from of sitting and hunting. So, I set her up with a 30-06 that has been holding 4 inch groups at 200 yards, put her the “honey hole” blind…. Anyway, she got buck fever on the mother of all doe’s and never connected, I watched from 300 yards away. During the shootin’ a 6 point stepped out in front of my Bro in-law and he dropped it at 150 yards.
We all stroll back out for the evening hunt with high hopes of bring home some more venison, between the 3 of us that wen out we only saw 2 squirrels a turkey and a raven.
The next morning, I was feeling a little under the weather and not really up sitting out in the cold. But, not wanting to catch any flak from my sister, who walks out to her blind with a pot of coffee none the less. I drug my sorry-butt out of bed and geared up, I grabbed my riffle and started walking. I could see their lights just slipping away over the hill side as I made my way in to the swamp and into my blind.
BOOM, BOOM!
I snap to attention… 6:45am. The radio crackles, my sisters asking who shot. No one answers, it’s still dark. She comes back saying she can she 30 to 40 shadows moving in the tress 250 yards away. About 20 minutes pass by. I hear a familiar crack, then another one, two 30-06 shots. I hear a loud crash and look over my shoulder to see 12 deer moving fast, 50 yards out. No shot. I can see them clearly on the far side of the swap, they are panicked, tails twitching ear’s up. I drop down to my knee’s to get a better look under the low branches, the deer highlighted against the snow. I glass up the largest of the bunch, adjust my scope. I pause, thinking to my self, this is a long shot. I wrap the sling around my arm, flick the safety off. Pause again, man, the deer is a long way off, safety on, safety off, safety on. Pause, still looking through the scope, safety off. Hold your breath idiot, squeezzzzzzeeee. Still glued to the scope, I see the muzzle flash and hear the crack, I see the bullet impact the deer, its jumps, then falls in to the snow. I rack another round, waiting for it to get back up. I’m thinking I broke its back, no movement. I get back up and sit in my chair and take a deep breath and look and my watch,
7:15am.
The radios are still silent.
I sneak out of my blind and work my way along the swamp to see my sister and her husband standing and out in the field. I work my way over to them to get a tally for the morning, my sister did not get a shot, her husband missed one and shot a doe.
Trevor is on lookers left with his doe, I’m on the right with my 4 point.
In the end, my long shot was longer than I thought. 124 yards through cover. I’m being honest, if i had to do the shot again I would not. It was a stupid, but lucky shot. Even though he was dead before he hit the ground, with a pass thought shot to the heart. My .44mag drops off fast after 75 yards. We tagged 2 bucks and doe. Played lots of cards and have some new stories for family Christmas partys.
Grats Andrew.
I’ve been Trophy Buck “hunting” since the end of August. I’ve logged more hours than I care to think about patterning Does, being busted by other “photographers”, and trying to learn all I can about hunting WTs. Kinda like bow hunting but with a camera. With the exception of spike bucks and one distant 8pter I’d been shut out all fall in my quest.
I finally got rewarded myself this weekend with some great images of a 8 or 10 pointer and another nice 6pter. Made me forget the aches and chills of a bad cold Ive been fighting 🙂
I can certianly appreciate why WT hunters get hooked on it. Its a pretty intense feeling when you finally call one in. I know I was stoked when the 8/10pter suddenly appeared after an hour of grunting and using bleats.
J
Great story! Where were you guys hunting? I’m hoping to get in a stand this Christmas–not sure if it will happen though. I almost hit a buck in my car yesterday. Had a pretty large rack on it; I would guess 6-8 points. I missed it by a few feet going 55. That could have been interesting.
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