3 years 37 weeks ago, 11:46 AM
Saint J.M. Browning  |
It's been a while. Life's busy, and if I told you all the shitty things that have happened the last few months, you would think I made it all up. So, I'll just say it's been busy, but I managed to get out last week and hunt. Got a nice 8 point buck. I'm going to upload some pics in a little bit. "I don't think Hank done it this way" - Waylon |
Saint J.M. Browning
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Got it on Tues. the week of Thanksgiving. I spent the whole week out there and was wanting to get a buck, hog, turkey, duck(s), and coyote. I was in the blind Tues. evening and this buck came out just before sundown. I watched him for about 15-20 mins 'cuz I didn't want to do like last year and have a big-in-the-scope buck turn out to be a deer I regret harvesting.
Turns out it was the reverse on this one. I kept thinking he was too small and hemmed and hawed about it. Finally, he looked to me and he looked shootable. I took the shot and he dropped dead where he was standing (that's four clean kills now, I'm proud of that).
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw how big he was. Until I tried to get him in the bed of the side-by-side. I've decided that Ranger bed is too far off the ground. I couldn't do it. I had to run back to camp and get a trailer. I was hearing the coyotes the whole time and fretting they were going to drag off my kill. I got back and found my deer untouched, got him loaded in the trailer and back to camp to dress and made it to the processor just before close.
I decided to take the next morning off. Sure enough, a big doe was in there that morning. It's probably for the best. I don't have enough freezer space and she can drop more deer this year.
I didn't hunt Wed. evening b/c another hunter showed up and we spent the evening getting a Thanksgiving feast ready. I didn't hunt the next morning, b/c I stayed up too late the night before and I didn't hunt that night, b/c we had our Thanksgiving feast w/ another hunter that showed up that afternoon.
So I finally got back out there Friday morning and evening, but didn't see anything that day. Well, I did have a shot on a coyote that evening, but I didn't take it 'cuz I was hoping some hog would come in.
On a funny side note, I did kill a skunk that was hanging around camp. I popped in the back of the head with my judge loaded with .410 #4 shot. I found later that this skunk has been hanging around the cabin a lot and one night a couple of hunters were startled awake by a loud racket and thumping on the cabin floor. Then a powerful blast of skunk filled the cabin. They said that the skunk got into with a black and white cat that's been also hanging around the cabin. So I said, "Wait, there's been a black and white cat hanging around and this cat was trying to fight off this skunk? Well, hell, I just killed Pepe le Pew." lol I love deer camp.
tallguy007
sorry life has been SHT for you always has for me so am use to it................
jay sedler
glad to hear of others doing well always,but sounds like you did great!8pt counts all antlers points as usual few back east?can't wait to see pics.congradulations on your hunt!