growalot's 2010 Best Deer success story contest entry

[growalot]

After having an exciting  yet unfilled bow season I was looking forward to a great gun season. I thought that after the first week of seeing nothing but fawns and hearing dozens and dozens of shots all around me, I may be wrong. The winds and night seem to have claimed my chances at filling our freezer with anything but store purchased chicken.

The rains stopped and snow finally arrived....I decided to hit the woods at 3:45  and went to the wooden ladder  stand I made  at the end of a 13 yrd x 300 yrd lane way we have...I was  seeing tracks everywhere in an area that just the afternoon before had  none...It was if they had followed my path through the snow tracking  me....4:15 rolled around to find a single spike walking a path through  the neighbors woods headed up onto us angling toward the turnip /corn  plot. He had no clue I had laid a bead on him and gave the pass...I  continued watching his back trail pleased to see 5 minutes later a mass  of brown appeared. There were 15-16 doe and fawn tightly grouped headed on  the same angle....The doe pictured was the largest of them and stepped  into the lane way with the first group of 3 doe and fawn...When the red  bead of my browning 20ga found her shoulder there was no pass. She  dropped where she stood at 96yrds...I luv my new range finder.