Here's my attempt at posting pics of my first deer.
Date and time weren't set on the camera...."doh!"
Story goes like this.
After losing my deer hunting partner to a freak motorcycle accident this summer I managed to convince a few friends to try deer hunting. We acquired a hunting lease on St. Joe's Island, (MadDog's territory) but we were too late to apply for tags in that WMU. Not expecting to actually see deer, let alone a buck, we kinda went about the whole thing as nothing more than a good time to be had by a few good friends. I had never got a deer, until today.
Well, on the first day we saw 6 does and on the second day we saw a spike horn that was not around long enough for a shot.
But today at 7:30am,....our last day hunting, I happened to see this guy walk about 65 meters from my blind. Using my Ruger Mini-30, (that I bought off a fellow Gunnut), I caught a glimpse of him (and his rack) through some thick sugar maple bush. I led him with my scope to an opening a few feet ahead of him and held my breath until he walked into my sight.
I fired with a prayer on the tip of my tongue, and lost sight of the deer as the gun went bang. I looked feverishly as it seemed to just disappear. I proceeded out of my blind and just behind a thicket of root and brush, about 7 meters from where I shot him, I spotted my first deer. What I thought was a small rack turned out to be an eleven pointer....and what I thought was a small deer, turned out to be 181 lbs dressed...(which also turned a few heads at the weighing station.)
I'm just starting to feel the effects of gravity. It's been a great day, with some great friends....and I just had to share it with ya.
Good luck guys....(it worked for me)
Bac
Date and time weren't set on the camera...."doh!"
Story goes like this.
After losing my deer hunting partner to a freak motorcycle accident this summer I managed to convince a few friends to try deer hunting. We acquired a hunting lease on St. Joe's Island, (MadDog's territory) but we were too late to apply for tags in that WMU. Not expecting to actually see deer, let alone a buck, we kinda went about the whole thing as nothing more than a good time to be had by a few good friends. I had never got a deer, until today.
Well, on the first day we saw 6 does and on the second day we saw a spike horn that was not around long enough for a shot.
But today at 7:30am,....our last day hunting, I happened to see this guy walk about 65 meters from my blind. Using my Ruger Mini-30, (that I bought off a fellow Gunnut), I caught a glimpse of him (and his rack) through some thick sugar maple bush. I led him with my scope to an opening a few feet ahead of him and held my breath until he walked into my sight.
I fired with a prayer on the tip of my tongue, and lost sight of the deer as the gun went bang. I looked feverishly as it seemed to just disappear. I proceeded out of my blind and just behind a thicket of root and brush, about 7 meters from where I shot him, I spotted my first deer. What I thought was a small rack turned out to be an eleven pointer....and what I thought was a small deer, turned out to be 181 lbs dressed...(which also turned a few heads at the weighing station.)
I'm just starting to feel the effects of gravity. It's been a great day, with some great friends....and I just had to share it with ya.
Good luck guys....(it worked for me)
Bac
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