Well this morning I decided to get my lazy but out of the bed and go hunting. At 5 am I started my walk out back. A couple hundred yards into the walk I noticed I had company, our cat had decided to come along. I took my foot and pushed it away several times along the walk but when I climbed into my tree he was below me meow meow. He was there at daylight and I dropped my accessories bag to scare him off at 6:30. 20 minutes later 2 does came thru but nothing following them. about 7:45 I walked the 500 yds back home to get my tobacco.
At 9:30 I sat down 125yds off my driveway because we had saw glimpses of a buck chasing does there the last few days. I stayed until noon but didn't even see a squirrel.
I was sitting here at my computer at 3:00 and decided to walk to a stand I hadn't sit in yet this year. Can't kill them from the couch right? This stand sits at the other end or the hollow I was sitting on earlier. At 4:00 I was settled in and grabbed my grunt. Moments later I hear a deer approaching fast. He was moving right to left looking for the source of the grunt. He was behind a row of cedars, I had him in the scope but he moving too fast for me to get a good look at but I saw the swollen neck and what I thought was an 8pt. He stopped in a small hole and I made a quick decision and squeezed the trigger. He made it all of 50 yds. The 8th point was not a legal point. I thanked God for the hunt and for letting me find the buck. Then I wished I had let him grow another year or two.
Jay please score him as a doe and yes it was taken with my ExcaliBoo Vortex.
Teammates I think that's all I can do to help us. 30+22+25= 77
2008 Excalibur Vortex, Lumizone, STS
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Congratulations on a very successful hunt! Never had a cat follow me out before. The dogs start out with me about every morning, but, they know how far they are allowed and go back home.
What broadhead did you use?
I'd rather wear out than rust out.
Perception trumps intention.
Good eaten one, you've done your part, we won't let you down