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Spent the afternoon working at a clients office near land I hunt.

 

I get out of there with about 30 mins of legal time left and decide I'm gonna do a quick sit in my work clothes. I threw on a blaze neck gaiter and make my way to the field edge. Pretty quickly I hear a shot, I keep my eyes open to see if anything moves my way.

 

After about 2 or 3 mins I see a deer acting strangely on the far edge, I pull up my scope and zoom in and see it's a doe missing her lower jaw, she acts disoriented and drops. I figure she's dead so go and investigate, she jumps up and tries to trot away, her face half hanging there. I pull up, shoot and drop her.

 

As I'm gutting the deer I just happen to look up and see what appears to be someone running away down a railroad bed in full blaze orange, I can only assume they must have been the shooter and was aware of what (s)he'd done.

 

No pictures cos she was not a pretty sight.  Just glad that I chose to go sit there for a few.

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Spent the afternoon working at a clients office near land I hunt.

I get out of there with about 30 mins of legal time left and decide I'm gonna do a quick sit in my work clothes. I threw on a blaze neck gaiter and make my way to the field edge. Pretty quickly I hear a shot, I keep my eyes open to see if anything moves my way.

Sweet harvest!

I can not count the times I almost didn't hunt and made a last minute decision only to score...when you get that feeling Go Hunt!

I've also been on the other side of that wounded deer equation with my grandfather 200 yds down the trail finishing off a seven point I hit back with a .243.

It poured rain 1 hour later we would have never found him if my pop didn't have Korean War marksman training. Deer was at a full gate pop hit in the shoulder 3 times in 3 seconds.

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This is my traditional shoot a doe day. The whole county must have heard me crunching into the woods this morning. I sat waiting in the stand for the does to come in from the fields and make their way to a bedding are that is in front of me...and yes..ever so slightly downwind of me. I figure this is ok, since they will be coming into it and will need to get past me first. I didn't see or hear any does and it was approaching 9:00. I thought, I could get down and make it to work. Just then see was Mr. Wide pop out of the bedding area 60 yards out. Saw him raise his head and catch the wind. Dang it!!! He escaped off into the thick stuff and then I have the pleasure of listening to him circle around me toward the field edge. At least I have seen him in person and he is as impressive as he was in the foggy trail cam pic. I also know that he causes quite a bit of buck fever with his presence. Warming up and perhaps heading out toward the back field this time.

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Gosh I know we are only a few days in but I'd love to even see a deer I can legally shoot, haha!

No cell signal where we hunt so I have to do "live from my chair afterward".

With it being extra crunchy this morning I decided to sit in the stand until the frost melted. I was going to get down and still hunt the afternoon, but some guys on the neighboring property were running all over on ATVs and hollering at each other (what the heck) so I stayed put in case they pushed any deer around. Dad put on a very slow still hunt for several hours on the sidehill where deer have typically bed down over the years since the wind was right for it. Not a thing, today. One squirrel. We quit around 4:15... neither of us like to track, gut, and drag one out in the dark. We have to walk a long way in so it works out for us.

 

Of course I get home and there are a bunch of does having a party behind my house!

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