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Chasing tail...
Chasing tail will always have side effects.
This guy was keeping a doe locked down so nobody else could get a shot. Unfortunately for him, I was waiting and took mine.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...ps70hlxkdv.jpg
There were some younger bucks hanging around so I believe one of them got lucky last night!
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Backstraps on the grill!!!
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It's just so darn cute! Wish Sean would get one like that :(
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Wow Matt,that's a great buck!
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You know cupped, you have NO story. Every good deer story starts with "There I was".
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I gave Hump a hard time for no story, I should have known better!
Here goes:
I finally had a chance to hit the woods early after DST ended. Wind was perfect, in my face and blowing into the beaver pond. Had a dink 4 pt come in around 4pm. He stayed for ~15 minutes checking trails and smelled something good and headed upwind on a mission.
Next up was one of the small symmetrical 8's on the "do not shoot" list. A little later I saw movement to my right (E) and picked up a doe coming across the shallow part of the beaver pond. Then I saw the antlers sticking up over the brush. He sat behind some trees for an eternity and finally took 2 steps forward. He was ~60yds away. I put the red dot on the high shoulder figuring the angle would take the top of the left lung and the bottom of the right.
I squeezed the trigger and watched him mule kick. He took 3 big bounds to the N staying on the dry side and I lost him in the trees. A few seconds later I heard the thrashing. All said, he didn't go more than 30 yards from the shot. Tracking was like watching a slasher film. As I stood over him I took a minute to admire him, gave a silent prayer and started looking for the best route to get him out.
The 1oz solid copper sabot did a number on him.
Dragging him to the logging road was a bitch. I got the truck and loaded him up. Unfortunately the ground was saturated and my truck slid into a deep rut leading to a washout on the way to the gate. I called some friends to get me out. One only has a 2wd truck and he got stuck in a puddle. It took us 4 hours to get him out and 5 min for my truck. By the time I dressed the deer and got everything iced down I was home at 2:30am.
He made me work for him for sure.
$12 worth of pressure washing at the do-it-yourself bay and the truck is mostly clean. I don't know what I owe my buddies for helping but I'll nver hear the end of it.
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Excellente, the story made me feel like I was there helping out without having to get dirty:)
Imagine if the story started this way though,
There I was,
I finally had a chance to hit the woods early after DST ended. Wind was perfect, in my face and blowing into the beaver pond. Had a dink 4 pt come in around 4pm. He stayed for ~15 minutes checking trails and smelled something good and headed upwind on a mission.
Next up was one of the small symmetrical 8's on the "do not shoot" list. A little later I saw movement to my right (E) and picked up a doe coming across the shallow part of the beaver pond. Then I saw the antlers sticking up over the brush. He sat behind some trees for an eternity and finally took 2 steps forward. He was ~60yds away. I put the red dot on the high shoulder figuring the angle would take the top of the left lung and the bottom of the right.
I squeezed the trigger and watched him mule kick. He took 3 big bounds to the N staying on the dry side and I lost him in the trees. A few seconds later I heard the thrashing. All said, he didn't go more than 30 yards from the shot. Tracking was like watching a slasher film. As I stood over him I took a minute to admire him, gave a silent prayer and started looking for the best route to get him out.
The 1oz solid copper sabot did a number on him.
Dragging him to the logging road was a bitch. I got the truck and loaded him up. Unfortunately the ground was saturated and my truck slid into a deep rut leading to a washout on the way to the gate. I called some friends to get me out. One only has a 2wd truck and he got stuck in a puddle. It took us 4 hours to get him out and 5 min for my truck. By the time I dressed the deer and got everything iced down I was home at 2:30am.
He made me work for him for sure.
$12 worth of pressure washing at the do-it-yourself bay and the truck is mostly clean. I don't know what I owe my buddies for helping but I'll nver hear the end of it.