SpurHunter
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I have been meaning to give an account of my week off, so here goes.
I planned vacation for opener or Black powder. My lease is in Bedford Co, about 2 hours from the house.
Myself, my 17 yr old daughter Storm and my buddy Michael who just started hunting last season hit the lease before daylight. An hour in, a spike showed up and walked straight to our shooting house. It spooked and ran about 10 yards to the left, she smoked it. So we thought. It rolled around screaming and then jumped to its feet, and ran back the way it came. I could see the exit hole was high, but knew it couldn’t survive a shock like that. Waited for 20 mins or so and checked to find no blood. Started down the trial it left on and found blood, eventually tracking it for about an hour and over 300 yards through thick brush before loosing all sign of it. We had just decided it was over and my buddy shot. I waited for a text….nothing. I asked what happened, he said he didn’t want to talk about it. LOL
Assumed he missed, so I said I was heading that way. I heard the story and told him to go back to impact and follow the route he saw the deer ran, zigzagging along the way. We headed back for the shooting house. In 5 mins I got a call, he was so happy he was crying, he found it. I huge main-frame 6 with two small stickers, so call it an 8 point. His first buck.
I went to help him drag it and Storm had a single fawn walk through with no shot. We hunted Sat evening without a sighting.
Sunday morning the girl wanted to hunt by herself for the first time, (this story was posted). She ended up killing a nice doe, and so very happy to have done it all by herself. I saw a 4 point and passed it.
Sunday evening I had two friends come to join us. All five of us in the stands, and nobody saw a deer. LOL
Monday morning was just me and my two friends. I had three does come in and after checking behind them pretty good, I took out the lead doe. After the shot I whistled at the other two and they hung just out of range for a few minutes, no shot. They trotted off and within 5 mins came right back with a really young wide 8 point on their heels. I determined that I had no desire to shoot him and opted to take out his lead doe. Deer #2 down. Again, I whistled as they ran, they stopped while I reloaded but never gave me the opportunity for a shot at doe #3.
An hour later a lone doe appeared from another direction and I somehow missed her. ?
One of my buddies was giving me hell for missing the third doe, and hear da racket coming up the hill. A large 8 point dogging a doe. He stopped broadside at 70 yards, Jason missed. He reloaded, the buck was still chasing the doe in circles and he missed again. This time at 50 yards. LOL
An hour later he had two doe sneak up the hill the same direction, but didn’t have interest in shooting them.
My other friend never saw a deer.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I hunted a new spot 3 miles from the house, both mornings and evenings. I saw deer every day, lots of does and a couple small 4 points.
Friday morning I was back in that same stand and watched a 5 point pester 10 does in a soybean field. Had a 4 pt come right under me, and had two different coyotes come by that I couldn’t get a clear shot on. Two does eased by me, another ten minutes later, and then three does came later that fed in front of me for about 30 mins. By this time I was getting chilly and my trigger finger was itching. Doe #16 got into a clearing and I laid her out.
Saturday I was back in Bedford Co wit Michael and buddy Tim. Tim passed a 4 pt, Michael had three does feed in front of him for more than 20 mins, he finally decided to take one out and dropped her. I had a coyote walk through my small plot and as it went around the corned I pulled the gun up and stated squealing and it came running back to me. I cut it open at 60 yards.
The evening hunt was a bust, minus a small 6 that Michael shot and we found a handful of single droplets of blood over hundreds of yards, I have never seen this little from a deer before. I believe 100% that deer is still running wondering what kind of Japanese hornet stung it. LOL
Sunday I was back home for an early hunt close to the house. The soy beans had three does in it at daylight, but I never saw another deer all morning.
This was my first 9 day hunt stretch ever, granted some were only half days, but none-the-less, a pretty good run. Enough to make the ol lady mad.
I planned vacation for opener or Black powder. My lease is in Bedford Co, about 2 hours from the house.
Myself, my 17 yr old daughter Storm and my buddy Michael who just started hunting last season hit the lease before daylight. An hour in, a spike showed up and walked straight to our shooting house. It spooked and ran about 10 yards to the left, she smoked it. So we thought. It rolled around screaming and then jumped to its feet, and ran back the way it came. I could see the exit hole was high, but knew it couldn’t survive a shock like that. Waited for 20 mins or so and checked to find no blood. Started down the trial it left on and found blood, eventually tracking it for about an hour and over 300 yards through thick brush before loosing all sign of it. We had just decided it was over and my buddy shot. I waited for a text….nothing. I asked what happened, he said he didn’t want to talk about it. LOL
Assumed he missed, so I said I was heading that way. I heard the story and told him to go back to impact and follow the route he saw the deer ran, zigzagging along the way. We headed back for the shooting house. In 5 mins I got a call, he was so happy he was crying, he found it. I huge main-frame 6 with two small stickers, so call it an 8 point. His first buck.
I went to help him drag it and Storm had a single fawn walk through with no shot. We hunted Sat evening without a sighting.
Sunday morning the girl wanted to hunt by herself for the first time, (this story was posted). She ended up killing a nice doe, and so very happy to have done it all by herself. I saw a 4 point and passed it.
Sunday evening I had two friends come to join us. All five of us in the stands, and nobody saw a deer. LOL
Monday morning was just me and my two friends. I had three does come in and after checking behind them pretty good, I took out the lead doe. After the shot I whistled at the other two and they hung just out of range for a few minutes, no shot. They trotted off and within 5 mins came right back with a really young wide 8 point on their heels. I determined that I had no desire to shoot him and opted to take out his lead doe. Deer #2 down. Again, I whistled as they ran, they stopped while I reloaded but never gave me the opportunity for a shot at doe #3.
An hour later a lone doe appeared from another direction and I somehow missed her. ?
One of my buddies was giving me hell for missing the third doe, and hear da racket coming up the hill. A large 8 point dogging a doe. He stopped broadside at 70 yards, Jason missed. He reloaded, the buck was still chasing the doe in circles and he missed again. This time at 50 yards. LOL
An hour later he had two doe sneak up the hill the same direction, but didn’t have interest in shooting them.
My other friend never saw a deer.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I hunted a new spot 3 miles from the house, both mornings and evenings. I saw deer every day, lots of does and a couple small 4 points.
Friday morning I was back in that same stand and watched a 5 point pester 10 does in a soybean field. Had a 4 pt come right under me, and had two different coyotes come by that I couldn’t get a clear shot on. Two does eased by me, another ten minutes later, and then three does came later that fed in front of me for about 30 mins. By this time I was getting chilly and my trigger finger was itching. Doe #16 got into a clearing and I laid her out.
Saturday I was back in Bedford Co wit Michael and buddy Tim. Tim passed a 4 pt, Michael had three does feed in front of him for more than 20 mins, he finally decided to take one out and dropped her. I had a coyote walk through my small plot and as it went around the corned I pulled the gun up and stated squealing and it came running back to me. I cut it open at 60 yards.
The evening hunt was a bust, minus a small 6 that Michael shot and we found a handful of single droplets of blood over hundreds of yards, I have never seen this little from a deer before. I believe 100% that deer is still running wondering what kind of Japanese hornet stung it. LOL
Sunday I was back home for an early hunt close to the house. The soy beans had three does in it at daylight, but I never saw another deer all morning.
This was my first 9 day hunt stretch ever, granted some were only half days, but none-the-less, a pretty good run. Enough to make the ol lady mad.
