Post by swilk on Oct 29, 2012 7:50:02 GMT -5
I have been out in the woods about 1/10 as much as I would in a typical year .... started an addition on our house in July and I am still plugging through the finish work. That project and the life of having 3 small kids is just making finding time to hunt a little tougher this year.
With the rut creeping closer and closer I have made time to get out more often the past week and had a weeks vacation time scheduled for the week before gun season.
I picked my buddy up yesterday at 3:00 EST and headed to the woods ... 20 minutes later we were walking to our stands. We decided to hunt a couple of stands that were 3-400 yards apart so the majority of our walk was together. Stands are about a mile from the truck so I was wearing a light t-shirt with the rest of my clothes strapped to my pack.
I got to my stand and set the pack on the ground .... stripped off the t-shirt and put on my hunting clothes and safety vest. I put my binocs on, clipped into the lifeline and headed up the tree.
Once in the tree I hung the pack on a hook screwed into the tree .... pulled up my bow and nocked an arrow. I hung the bow on the bowholder, put on my release, got a cheek full of sunflower seeds and decided to sit down for a second before digging out the facemask and gloves I wear while bowhunting ... never did get to putting those on.
I am sitting in a little pinch/finger of woods that sticks out from strip of timber that runs along the river and divides two CRP fields. Deer can and do get on you in a hurry.
I knew the colts game was a close one so I pulled out my smartphone to have a look at the score .... tied. I look over the top of my phone and see a buck step from the CRP into the woods at 35 yards. I drop the phone in my safety vest pocket .... stand up as he is behind a tree .... grab my bow as it hangs above my right shoulder (I shoot left handed and the deer was coming from my right to left) .... clip the release on the string... draw as I turn to my left ..... shoot him at 20 yards. He never stopped walking.
Shot was slightly quartering to me and entered high shoulder on near side and exited low behind the shoulder on the far side. Dee ran about 40 yards and fell over.
Total time from climbing stand until deer was dead .... about 4 minutes.
I walked over to him and propped him up ... put my bow on his side ... snapped a picture and sent it to my buddy. His response was "what you already got that??" ;D
Mainframe 8 with a stubby lil G3 on his left side and 2 small kickers off the left base making him a 10. 137 7/8" and 200lbs on the nose. Only my second buck to hit that 200lb mark. Nearly 24" mainbeams. 18 2/8" wide.
With the rut creeping closer and closer I have made time to get out more often the past week and had a weeks vacation time scheduled for the week before gun season.
I picked my buddy up yesterday at 3:00 EST and headed to the woods ... 20 minutes later we were walking to our stands. We decided to hunt a couple of stands that were 3-400 yards apart so the majority of our walk was together. Stands are about a mile from the truck so I was wearing a light t-shirt with the rest of my clothes strapped to my pack.
I got to my stand and set the pack on the ground .... stripped off the t-shirt and put on my hunting clothes and safety vest. I put my binocs on, clipped into the lifeline and headed up the tree.
Once in the tree I hung the pack on a hook screwed into the tree .... pulled up my bow and nocked an arrow. I hung the bow on the bowholder, put on my release, got a cheek full of sunflower seeds and decided to sit down for a second before digging out the facemask and gloves I wear while bowhunting ... never did get to putting those on.
I am sitting in a little pinch/finger of woods that sticks out from strip of timber that runs along the river and divides two CRP fields. Deer can and do get on you in a hurry.
I knew the colts game was a close one so I pulled out my smartphone to have a look at the score .... tied. I look over the top of my phone and see a buck step from the CRP into the woods at 35 yards. I drop the phone in my safety vest pocket .... stand up as he is behind a tree .... grab my bow as it hangs above my right shoulder (I shoot left handed and the deer was coming from my right to left) .... clip the release on the string... draw as I turn to my left ..... shoot him at 20 yards. He never stopped walking.
Shot was slightly quartering to me and entered high shoulder on near side and exited low behind the shoulder on the far side. Dee ran about 40 yards and fell over.
Total time from climbing stand until deer was dead .... about 4 minutes.
I walked over to him and propped him up ... put my bow on his side ... snapped a picture and sent it to my buddy. His response was "what you already got that??" ;D
Mainframe 8 with a stubby lil G3 on his left side and 2 small kickers off the left base making him a 10. 137 7/8" and 200lbs on the nose. Only my second buck to hit that 200lb mark. Nearly 24" mainbeams. 18 2/8" wide.
Congrats!
& great story
