SpurHunter
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Sean and I have been busy getting this little lease ground ready for the kids to hunt this year and we were plenty excited to get into the woods for opening morning. My bud Robin and his 10 yr old met us at the house at 5 and we took off.We caught up to Sean at the gate going in, and he said Andrew was feeling under the weather, but still brought him out hoping he would feel a little better. </p>
Since Sean could only hunt until mid-morning, I offered for them to use the stand that i think will be the best this year, and since Corbin had never hunted before we put him and Robin in the BIG double stand we setup recently, which left me and Storm huffing it up to the highest spot on the lease along ridge. This is a tough stand to hunt because you have about an 8' shooting lane going straight away left and right, and thats pretty much it. We have it right on the fence-line, so even when all the leaves die off, we might see a deer, but cant shoot behind us untill it crosses over the fence. </p>
About 9AM I caught movement to my right and saw a HUGE coyote come into the lane, I told Storm to aim, but it moved right across without time to shoot. About 9:20ish Iheard a deer blow a couple times towards our gate, which is where we park and across the fence is a field that the hunters that lease that property have planted into a foodplot.I assumed Sean and Andrew had just spooked one when walking out. About 15 mins later Storm and I were a little cold, so we decided to walk out our trail to the end and see what would happen. We got about 200 yards from the stand and jumped 5 deer right on top of the fence-line. We tried to get a shot, but no-go, they never got in a clear position for us. When we started back to the stand, Sean called and said the other hunters had jumped at least 15 deer, including two bucks in the field at the gate, most of them with-in 100 yards of our trucks! LOL Thats spur-luck for you, the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side. So thats what I had heard earlier, when the deer were blowing. The good thing is, they said all the deer ran right onto our place, we just didnt have a person close enough to see them this day. </p>
Storm and I decided to get back into the stand, and at 10:35 I was looking at the exact spot the coyote stepped out and saw a deer poke out. Storm saw it right as I was about to speak and she aimed, of course the only chance at this angle was to shoot left-handed, which she has never done before. She said she was on it, I pushed the safety off for her as she could not reach it wrong-handed, and she pulled the trigger and thebig doe looked like she gothit with a taser!She fell straight over with her legs stiff as a board. I perfect spine shot at 94 yards on the rangefinder. </p>
We stayed in the stand a few minutes hoping another deer would pop out, but she wanted to go check it out pretty quick. Thank God it was ALL down-hill to drag this one, I am guessing about 500 yards all told, but still not a blast with a large deer. </p>
Sean and Andrew did not see anything on stand, and Robin and Corbin didnt either, but deer were all over the place, its still way too thick to see like we need to. Things will just get better and better over there. </p>
After lunch when we pulled in to hunt the evening, right in that field, just 100 yards before our gate was three does feeding, they didnt even run off, just moved off in the woods and popped back out a few minutes later when we were getting ready to go hunt. Stupid deer! The evening hunt was nice weather, but un-productive as neither of us saw anything, but I have high hopes that we will get some tags filled for the youngsters all season. </p>
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Since Sean could only hunt until mid-morning, I offered for them to use the stand that i think will be the best this year, and since Corbin had never hunted before we put him and Robin in the BIG double stand we setup recently, which left me and Storm huffing it up to the highest spot on the lease along ridge. This is a tough stand to hunt because you have about an 8' shooting lane going straight away left and right, and thats pretty much it. We have it right on the fence-line, so even when all the leaves die off, we might see a deer, but cant shoot behind us untill it crosses over the fence. </p>
About 9AM I caught movement to my right and saw a HUGE coyote come into the lane, I told Storm to aim, but it moved right across without time to shoot. About 9:20ish Iheard a deer blow a couple times towards our gate, which is where we park and across the fence is a field that the hunters that lease that property have planted into a foodplot.I assumed Sean and Andrew had just spooked one when walking out. About 15 mins later Storm and I were a little cold, so we decided to walk out our trail to the end and see what would happen. We got about 200 yards from the stand and jumped 5 deer right on top of the fence-line. We tried to get a shot, but no-go, they never got in a clear position for us. When we started back to the stand, Sean called and said the other hunters had jumped at least 15 deer, including two bucks in the field at the gate, most of them with-in 100 yards of our trucks! LOL Thats spur-luck for you, the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side. So thats what I had heard earlier, when the deer were blowing. The good thing is, they said all the deer ran right onto our place, we just didnt have a person close enough to see them this day. </p>
Storm and I decided to get back into the stand, and at 10:35 I was looking at the exact spot the coyote stepped out and saw a deer poke out. Storm saw it right as I was about to speak and she aimed, of course the only chance at this angle was to shoot left-handed, which she has never done before. She said she was on it, I pushed the safety off for her as she could not reach it wrong-handed, and she pulled the trigger and thebig doe looked like she gothit with a taser!She fell straight over with her legs stiff as a board. I perfect spine shot at 94 yards on the rangefinder. </p>
We stayed in the stand a few minutes hoping another deer would pop out, but she wanted to go check it out pretty quick. Thank God it was ALL down-hill to drag this one, I am guessing about 500 yards all told, but still not a blast with a large deer. </p>
Sean and Andrew did not see anything on stand, and Robin and Corbin didnt either, but deer were all over the place, its still way too thick to see like we need to. Things will just get better and better over there. </p>
After lunch when we pulled in to hunt the evening, right in that field, just 100 yards before our gate was three does feeding, they didnt even run off, just moved off in the woods and popped back out a few minutes later when we were getting ready to go hunt. Stupid deer! The evening hunt was nice weather, but un-productive as neither of us saw anything, but I have high hopes that we will get some tags filled for the youngsters all season. </p>
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