Post by elmo on Dec 23, 2013 21:02:44 GMT -5
Well, I got back to the USA on Thursday evening. Then on Friday I spent the whole day at doctors appointments and my niece's surgery. Saturday saw rain in the morning and Christmas at my mother's house. Then Sunday had church in the morning, with picking up yard sale stuff right after. I finally got to the woods for my first hunt at 3pm. I sat knowing that I had less than 3 hours of buck hunting left in my season. I got up in my tree and looke around and the area all around my stand looked more like a pond than the woods that I normally hunt. I didn't even see a squirrel until almost 4:30, and they were outside the pond zone. I started thinking that the deer would probably avoid the area to avoid the water. Then at 5:15 I hear something moving behind me. I look and see a deer, but it looked like a fawn. I didn't even get up and get a better look. Then I see a buck walking in the woods to my left, but he didn't look big enough. Then he turned his head and I got a better look and he wasn't a yearling at all. Then a doe started moving towards the backside of my stand and he goes with her. I am now looking for a hole to shoot through. I find it and then him in it. I shoot and when the smoke clears I see a buck running towards my stand and turns and runs strait away from me. I look at my phone and it is now 5:25. I know that there isn't much light left, so I get down and walk to where I had last seen the buck. I don't see him and decide to wait until morning since there will be no blood trail in the standing water anyway. My son and I go out today and I am showing him where I had last seen the buck and the way he was heading and looked over towards where I had shot. I saw some white on the ground. I walked over to check it out and found my buck lying right where I had shot him. The other buck that we were going looking for hadn't been shot and probably would have been a long track. I hadn't seen the 2nd buck and assumed that he was the one that I had shot.
I found out why I had deemed this buck to be smaller than I wanted and then changed my mind. The side that was closest to me as he walked to my right had a broken tine. Then he turned and the other side had the g3 that is 7" and I thought he was bigger. I don't have any pics sorry, but I am hapy with him after only 2.5 hours of hunting time.
I found out why I had deemed this buck to be smaller than I wanted and then changed my mind. The side that was closest to me as he walked to my right had a broken tine. Then he turned and the other side had the g3 that is 7" and I thought he was bigger. I don't have any pics sorry, but I am hapy with him after only 2.5 hours of hunting time.