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Post by elmo on Nov 19, 2019 8:41:05 GMT -5
I got to go hunting yesterday afternoon got in the tree at a little after 3. Saw a buck following a doe at about 415. He was limping badly on his left front leg, but couldn’t get a shot at him. Then at 510 I hear deer running and out pops a doe. She stops about 15 yards in front of me looking back. I get ready to shoot at her pursuer. I hear him start to come toward her. She takes off and almost runs into my ladder and he comes running right to my ladder and catches me moving to try and shoot him and turns and runs straight away from me. I mouth bleat and get him to stop looking back at the doe that is behind me and I get the shot off. He was quartering away pretty hard but it was enough to finish him off. He ended up running about 300 yards into a cut and disced bean field. I can’t see blood on the ground so I got a friend to come and help. Found very little blood to track with ended up wandering around in the woods for about 3 hours and shined the field 3 times before we were going to give up for the night and go back this morning. We got in the truck and when we were turning around we saw him laying in the field. Great ending to an adventurous chase. He is a nine pointer that weighs 194 pounds field dressed. I don’t know if he is the limping buck or not but that was my plan was to put him out of his misery. I hope that he was.   |
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Post by Sasquatch on Nov 19, 2019 8:45:10 GMT -5
Sounds like an exciting hunt!
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 19, 2019 9:28:32 GMT -5
Congratulations! Definitely sounded like a fun adventure afield
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 19, 2019 14:14:59 GMT -5
Pictures added..
Congratulations!
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Post by schall53 on Nov 19, 2019 16:57:18 GMT -5
I got to go hunting yesterday afternoon got in the tree at a little after 3. Saw a buck following a doe at about 415. He was limping badly on his left front leg, but couldn’t get a shot at him. Then at 510 I hear deer running and out pops a doe. She stops about 15 yards in front of me looking back. I get ready to shoot at her pursuer. I hear him start to come toward her. She takes off and almost runs into my ladder and he comes running right to my ladder and catches me moving to try and shoot him and turns and runs straight away from me. I mouth bleat and get him to stop looking back at the doe that is behind me and I get the shot off. He was quartering away pretty hard but it was enough to finish him off. He ended up running about 300 yards into a cut and disced bean field. I can’t see blood on the ground so I got a friend to come and help. Found very little blood to track with ended up wandering around in the woods for about 3 hours and shined the field 3 times before we were going to give up for the night and go back this morning. We got in the truck and when we were turning around we saw him laying in the field. Great ending to an adventurous chase. He is a nine pointer that weighs 194 pounds field dressed. I don’t know if he is the limping buck or not but that was my plan was to put him out of his misery. I hope that he was. Congratulations on a fantastic buck. |
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Post by featherduster on Nov 19, 2019 17:25:12 GMT -5
Great story of a tank of a deer, congratulations.
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Post by parkerbow on Nov 19, 2019 18:08:46 GMT -5
Nice buck Elmo and a toad of a body on him.
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Post by drfleck on Nov 19, 2019 18:58:44 GMT -5
Nice deer elmo!
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Nov 19, 2019 20:42:35 GMT -5
Real good looking deer!
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Post by elmo on Nov 19, 2019 21:51:44 GMT -5
Thanks woody for adding the pictures, and I had let a couple of bucks walk that had more antler but he was the biggest bodied deer that I had seen. My wife said that she thought that I wasn’t a trophy hunter when I told her the story about letting a small 10 walk. I told her that he looked like a 2 year old deer and didn’t have enough meat on his bones for me to want to take him.
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Post by butlerj on Nov 20, 2019 7:48:16 GMT -5
Congrats man!
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