Fast Whitetail Hunt

Rob

Rob

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Last November, I set a personal record for my fastest successful Whitetail hunt. I left my son's house at first legal light on the first day of the season. Walked straight south along a fence line into a very cold wind for about 1/2 mile. The buck ran straight at me. I waited until he closed to about 75 yards and shot him. Waved to my son, who was about 3/4 mile away to the east, and he came over. We field dressed the buck, went back to get a truck, then hauled the deer back and hung him up in the barn. We were back in the living room warming up over coffee well before 10 AM.(I had a supplemental doe tag, so continued to hunt the next day, when it warmed up a bit.)

so...other stories of "speed hunting?"
 
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Last November, I might have set a record for fastest successful Whitetail hunt. I left my son's house at first legal light on the first day of the season. Walked straight south along a fence line into a very cold wind for about 1/2 mile. The buck ran straight at me. I waited until he closed to about 75 yards and shot him. Waved to my son, who was about 3/4 mile away to the east, and he came over. We field dressed the buck, went back to get a truck, then hauled the deer back and hung him up in the barn. We were back in the living room warming up over coffee well before 10 AM.
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What took you so long ? A few years back I shot a nice buck 13020 feet away from my back door . Started at 7am dressed and hung in the barn at 7.45 . Those early success hunts are great even better when you have two tags. Thanks for your story good memories for sure.
 
Similar timing for my 2021 WT. Shot him at first light. Skinned and hung in the barn by 10:30am. Then I went bird hunting the rest of the afternoon and scored 2 pheasants.
 
Several years ago, I had one of those "Quick and done" hunts for moose.
I did not make it to the slash I was intending to hunt, when a Bull stepped
out onto the logging road 125 yards away. Had him dressed and to the house
before 9:00 AM. Dave.
 
well its been about a decade now but my most successful opening day for whitetail I had 3 down by 11:00 and all loaded up on the quad.

2 supplemental tags for a pair of does and a fairly good sized buck on the general tag. Does were lashed to the back rack and the buck on the front rack. Coming into camp for lunch I got a few looks.
 
My 2021 Texas hunt ended 2 minutes after getting out of the pickup truck. The first minute was used to get my rifle out of its case. Most of the other years it was a few hours or days at my usual Quebec spot.
 
Congratulations that’s a efficient way to put meat in the freezer.
Only down side is depending on the regs. Your done deer hunting. Lol

Had two of those kinda days. But now me behind the trigger.
Me and a buddie headed out in the dark. Got to out bear hunting area.
Buddy smokes a nice cinnamon bear. We were home by 9.

Second was my uncle came up to pick up a pig that I had raised and butchers for him.
He said “I’ll bring my rifle. Maybe sneak out for a morning deer hunt. Befoe I make the journey home”

I had found a beautiful trail that summer I wanted to show him and walk in.
Left on the sxs at first light. Get to where I wanted to park and walk. It was foggy.
I shut the machine off. He calmly stepped out grabbed his rifle from the box and boom. Smokes a beautiful 4pt mule.

He said the second I shut the machine off the buck spun it’s head and he seen it.

Hope one day it’s that lucky for me.
 
Two years ago second day of muzzleloader season,first evening out. Loaded my muzzleloader in the yard and walked 80 meters to the field. Still inside the woods when I seen him. 40 meters into the field. Spine shot. First thought was now I have some work to do. Second was disappointment as It was just too easy and quick. I bought a tag for the regular season and was then laid off. I was out almost every day and absolutely nothing crossed my path. Feels much better if you have to earn it.
 
We had an old farm house with a living room window that would slide open which my wife could fit through. She was pretty much pinned to the couch with a toddler and nursing a set of newborn twins. I set some feed accross the yard so she could watch tv and check for deer with the swivel of her head. She slid through the window one evening and dropped a great 6x6 whitetail, had to call her brother for help because I was 2 hours away. Deer hunting.
 
Last hunt of the season.
Buddy and I start up a hill, he needs to take a leak so I start glassing the hills to the south where we saw a group of does.
Next things I hear my buddy whispering, turn around and a big buck has popped up on top of the hill in front of us. We lay down and wait to see what hes going to do.
Fortune was on our side as he continued to zigzag his way down towards us. I waited till there was no sykline behind him and dropped him.
Hunt lasted 15 minutes. I could see my truck, ranged it to be 700yds, all down hill made for an easy pull.
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2017 season was fastest deer hunt ever for me.

Had my best friend hunting with me, It was his first time deer hunting.

He texted me at 630am saying he was walking in to his stand.

7am I hear 2 quick shots from him. Then he texted me saying I just shot a huge buck, I think he has a drop tine.

I'm sitting there texting him to be quiet and listen for the deer he shot and to watch exactly where he went.

I hear crashing in front of me, Drop the phone, Look up and theres an 11 point buck standing 50 yards away thrashing a tree making a scrape. Raised my gun and fired.

Picked the phone back up and texted my buddy I just shot a big buck too!

He shot his at 6:59am, I shot mine at 7:05. His was a 14 point monster, Mine was a 11 point stud with porcupine quills in his nose.
 
I've had several moose hunts finished up by 10 AM on opening day.
Kinda makes me feel like I was cheated out of a hunt.
 
Two Whitetails different years both same ways. Walk out in hardwoods to tree stand through crunching leaves, just get seated to have a buck within 10 yards looking around for who's made all the noise. Both were shot within 2-3mins of getting into stand.
 
The quickest deer kill I've had was 40 yrs ago , was driving up to my buddies house to pick him up for the mornings hunt.
When I drove into his yard there was a WT buck looking at me from the front corner of his yard, Just breaking daylight behind the deer so he showed up adequate for a shot over truck hood. He was less than 40 yrds from me and prob 20 yrds from front of the house. Budy came out of the house with knife in hand, he had just spotted the buck out his front window when I shot and seen him go down...his wife showed ne evidence of even waking up at the shot....or she was smart enough not to show so she didnt have to help with the butchering.
 
Not me, I’m never that lucky but my brother in-law is the ####s for luck…. A few years back he got a message from a friend driving the Alaska highway north of town saw a bunch of bisons… the BIL waited for the bell to ring( he’s a teacher) jumped in his truck with a buddy at 15:15, drove down shot a bison and by supper time all was done and the bison was hanging!!
This year him and his family snowmobiled in to a lake, they were the first one in, traded the sleds for skis and maybe 2km in a group of 5-6 bisons were waiting for him, as they walked by tagged the last one in queue and done!! I know guys that did over 1000km on there sleds trying to find bisons this year……
 
My personal preference is to shoot a buck (whitetail) on the last day of the season...........it cost more money, however, there are more memories.
 
Opening day Nov 1st. I had a log blind set up prior to opening day and went in 1/2 hour before first light. It was a fairly well used trail that I could see a fair distance in both directions. I could hear creatures moving around and as the daylight approached I started seeing movement above me on the ridge of the drainage I was in. The big whitetail walked on the upper trail and did a snort sneeze and took off but a few minutes later a 6 point whitetail followed and he stopped and looked at me and the 270 barked. Home by 9am.
 
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