So even though that big boy keeps showing his face just off limits on the adjacent property where I can hunt, I finally decided its get'n down to the wire with just 3 weeks to fill the rest of my tags, so time to start nocken some meat down. I have had that buck within 100 yards 5 or 6 times since the first week of Dec. but he just refuses to follow the doe the nights I'm in my stands. Well this week I decided to reduce my tags to 2 I will save for my last trip south next week. So After I put one in the cooler Monday, after a Sunday hunt, and got most of it cut up and ready to grind yesterday, all sausage but the backstraps and loins, I had about 1/2 of a hind quarter left to clean.
So with the weather calling for 5 or 6 straight days of rain, and temps in the mid 30to upper 30's to about 60 I decided with a perfect wind to hit again tonight as I thought the does would move early with rain coming in after sundown. It payed of again, so now I have another doe on the gambrel and part of a hind quarter in the cooler. I have plenty to keep me as bust as I want to be thru the weekend. Have Breakfast Sausage and Salami to make. Then hopefully next weekend I will be on the public ground and finish off the last 2 tags I have this year.
I guess I'm gonna have to hope that big boy makes it and will give me a chance at him next year. I'd like to stay on him but need all the tags filled to have enough meat to get us through till next Oct. meat in the freezer takes priority over bones on the wall every time. We'll see if it aint raining next week before the weekend trip south I may try and get a shot at him, but my doe hunting is done here now till next year, 2 down south will be my finally, but with the weather as warm as it is,,,,, I hope I didn't play with my food to long this year,,, Feb. the 5th,,,, I'll know!
Them 505 grain Spynal Tapps, with a 125 grain Slick Trick dropped here quick with a high forward shoulder shot that hit shoulder leg bone gone out and shoulder blade on near side breaking 2 blades of of the 4, but getting complete pass thru, I may go back 2 the VPA's, they will not break, but the Trick's got 'r' done, on this particular one,, I guess I can accept it fer a bad shot???
Well congrats to ya n go getstid anudder one
