RE: 8 days to Deermageddon
November 4, 2021 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2021 at 12:14 pm by onlinebiker.)
Well - THAT took long enough.
....
First it was too warm to hunt. Then it rained all the time.
Finally the weather got right - dry and cool.
I started seeing deer.
This morning - I got a buck.
Sort of.
...
I am hunting out of a ground blind - on the south end of a 30 acre soybean (this year) field with roads on the east and north sides. To the west is a corn field (just picked yesterday).
I got out before first light and cocked and loaded the crossbow and set in for a wait.
About an hour after first light - I had a small doe come in from the east - on the southern edge of the field. She came into my area I have marked with stakes - at 50 yards. I set up for the shot - and took a good look at her. Too small. I don't want to waste a tag on a squidge. She was acting a bit nervous. I couldn't tell if she had scented me - or if it was something else. She kept looking back east toward the road - and I figured there might be a buck. So - I stayed in firing position.
It paid off. A fair sized buck with a small rack (5 measured - 9 total points) He walked slowly into my kill zone - then stopped broadside right at 50 yards. I made the necessary elevation compensation and squeezed off the shot.
He jumped - then started to run - slowed - stopped -- and then trotted. He headed northeast - and stopped twice more - as if he might lay down - but continued to the side of the road in a spot with heavy underbrush and disappeared inside.
About that time - an SUV drove north on the road - and came to the spot where the deer had disappeared.
KABLAM!
Yup. The bastard got hit by the SUV.
I went and got my John Deere gator - with the front mounted deer loader I designed and tried it out for the first time. (worked perfectly) The SUV had left.
It had intestines hanging out the side and rectum - and one rear leg twisted about - and the hindquarters had chunks of car body imbedded.
I brought it home and hung it up on the gantry by the antlers - skinned off the back and took off the backstraps.
When I got done - I was surprised to see that the SUV was back - with another car. The owners were out in the middle of my field.
I ran out with the quad to confront them - and it turned out to be a guy I know pretty well - and quite like. He used to own a gun shop I frequented. It was his daughter in law that hit the deer. It put a serious hurt on the SUV - but she said no problem - she has full coverage insurance. She even apologized for trashing my deer.
Best part - while backtracking it -they found my bolt (arrow) - coated in blood. It confused the hell out of them - as they hadn't realized it had been shot - and he didn't know I had taken up bow hunting.
....
First it was too warm to hunt. Then it rained all the time.
Finally the weather got right - dry and cool.
I started seeing deer.
This morning - I got a buck.
Sort of.
...
I am hunting out of a ground blind - on the south end of a 30 acre soybean (this year) field with roads on the east and north sides. To the west is a corn field (just picked yesterday).
I got out before first light and cocked and loaded the crossbow and set in for a wait.
About an hour after first light - I had a small doe come in from the east - on the southern edge of the field. She came into my area I have marked with stakes - at 50 yards. I set up for the shot - and took a good look at her. Too small. I don't want to waste a tag on a squidge. She was acting a bit nervous. I couldn't tell if she had scented me - or if it was something else. She kept looking back east toward the road - and I figured there might be a buck. So - I stayed in firing position.
It paid off. A fair sized buck with a small rack (5 measured - 9 total points) He walked slowly into my kill zone - then stopped broadside right at 50 yards. I made the necessary elevation compensation and squeezed off the shot.
He jumped - then started to run - slowed - stopped -- and then trotted. He headed northeast - and stopped twice more - as if he might lay down - but continued to the side of the road in a spot with heavy underbrush and disappeared inside.
About that time - an SUV drove north on the road - and came to the spot where the deer had disappeared.
KABLAM!
Yup. The bastard got hit by the SUV.
I went and got my John Deere gator - with the front mounted deer loader I designed and tried it out for the first time. (worked perfectly) The SUV had left.
It had intestines hanging out the side and rectum - and one rear leg twisted about - and the hindquarters had chunks of car body imbedded.
I brought it home and hung it up on the gantry by the antlers - skinned off the back and took off the backstraps.
When I got done - I was surprised to see that the SUV was back - with another car. The owners were out in the middle of my field.
I ran out with the quad to confront them - and it turned out to be a guy I know pretty well - and quite like. He used to own a gun shop I frequented. It was his daughter in law that hit the deer. It put a serious hurt on the SUV - but she said no problem - she has full coverage insurance. She even apologized for trashing my deer.
Best part - while backtracking it -they found my bolt (arrow) - coated in blood. It confused the hell out of them - as they hadn't realized it had been shot - and he didn't know I had taken up bow hunting.
