Popped a Deer This Morning, Arrowed Another Yesterday Afternoon

I to ended up getting a decent buck off my front field. I had a couple decent bucks on the camera's behind the barn but hadn't seen them in a couple weeks. I spent an afternoon clearing trails across the river after a heavy snow had wrecked havoc with my trail system. I had 3 doghouse blinds snowed in. I came back to the house just before dark cold and wet and pulled the Argo into the garage/shop. My wife came down and informed me there was a nice buck standing out by the pond with 3 does, we feed the does out by the pond. I went up to the kitchen and took a look see with the binoculars and sure enough it was one of the decent bucks that hadn't been around for a couple weeks.

I then got informed by my wife that I was not allowed to shoot the buck as the pond area she considered a deer sanctuary!!! H'mmmm news to me. So I went out to the garage and started to bring in the nights fire wood all the while the buck is standing there about 200 yds. out watching my every move. He was still there after I got the wood in so I thought that's enough of this, it's worth the divorce. So I got the rifle out of the Argo and thought if I can get to the ornamental trees on the front lawn to rest the rifle I am all set. When I got to the tree the deer had gone. Mean while the little shiatsu dog had wondered up the lane way a piece, he is half blind and could quite get his way back when I called him so with the rifle over my shoulder I went to fetch him. When I bent to pick him up I see the buck standing broadside way out on the other side of the pond at the edge of the pines. Figured he was about 200 yds. out. So sat down and rested my elbows on my knees but I could not hold the rifle steady enough for my liking. I then tried laying down prone, that was much better. All the while that deer just stood there and never moved. I held just behind the shoulder and he dropped like a bag of rocks. When the fussing stopped I took the Argo out for a look see. A nice 8 pointer. He wouldn't threaten any record books that for sure but he was okay. Winchester M-70 Super grade 75 anniversary issue in 30-06 loaded with 165 Nosler Accubonds. I measured the distance with my range finder and it was 178 yds.

My wife soon got over the sanctuary issue and came out with her camera and took a few pictures. Can't post them as I post pictures so seldom I don't have a clue anymore how to go about it. So I agree with Doug it is not really hunting shooting deer off your front forty but it puts meat in the freezer, and at my age you take what you can get when you can get it. And by the way I had to go out and buy a new small freezer as my wife seen fit to fill the two freezer's full of vegetative matter from her garden. This new freezer is strictly for wild meat and if I find one pkge of vegetative matter in it I will instigate the divorce.
 
jjohnwm said:
Sounds like my season. Third day into the hunt I came in around noon, having seen nothing that morning. I had an appointment in town, and as I took off my hunting duds my wife drew my attention to this:

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His hoofprints were a measured 14 feet from the window. The horizontal lines in the picture are the slats of the Venetian blinds!

No, I didn't run out in my underwear and slippers to shoot him...but the one I got a couple of days later was even smaller! :)
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Deer Gods answered your dreams. Enjoy the feast.
 
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Hoyt; That's not all that funny actually.........I have 5 or 6 243s none of which I have sighted in or at least as I recall, a 25-06 that I haven't got a good load for yet, 2 X 260s neither of which I believe to be sighted in due to scope "musical chairs" that goes on constantly in my gun room. My 350 RM, my Remington 375 H&H, my 470 NE, my 9.3X62, my 35 Whelen, my 7mm RUM and my 204 are all sighted in but none seemed the appropriate cartridge for the occasion. My 22-250 might be but I'm not 100% sure, I have a good load but don't recall if I actually sighted it in after finding the good load, same goes for my 257 Bee.......I may have changed the scope since the last sight in. I don't recall exactly where I am with my CZ 550 FS in 6.5X55 and I know I don't have a load for either my 7X57 nor my 7.62X39. I know for sure that I have one of my 308s with a good 150 gn load and all sighted in I just don't remember which one.....pretty sure it's the Ruger RSI but it might be the Sako AV full stock..........then there is all the rest in varying states of load development.
I need to do some more shooting and get another 10 or 20 sighted in..........Oh well it don't matter as rifle season ended at sundown today so I'll concentrate on my bow for the next few days and try to put a big doe on ice as well.
 
c-fbmi said:
Hoyt; That's not all that funny actually.........I have 5 or 6 243s none of which I have sighted in or at least as I recall, a 25-06 that I haven't got a good load for yet, 2 X 260s neither of which I believe to be sighted in due to scope "musical chairs" that goes on constantly in my gun room. My 350 RM, my Remington 375 H&H, my 470 NE, my 9.3X62, my 35 Whelen, my 7mm RUM and my 204 are all sighted in but none seemed the appropriate cartridge for the occasion. My 22-250 might be but I'm not 100% sure, I have a good load but don't recall if I actually sighted it in after finding the good load, same goes for my 257 Bee.......I may have changed the scope since the last sight in. I don't recall exactly where I am with my CZ 550 FS in 6.5X55 and I know I don't have a load for either my 7X57 nor my 7.62X39. I know for sure that I have one of my 308s with a good 150 gn load and all sighted in I just don't remember which one.....pretty sure it's the Ruger RSI but it might be the Sako AV full stock..........then there is all the rest in varying states of load development.
I need to do some more shooting and get another 10 or 20 sighted in..........Oh well it don't matter as rifle season ended at sundown today so I'll concentrate on my bow for the next few days and try to put a big doe on ice as well.
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Don’t you just love aging and it’s effects on the memory?! I can’t recall if my FOUR rifles are sighted in either?!!!
 
the spank said:
Don’t you just love aging and it’s effects on the memory?! I can’t recall if my FOUR rifles are sighted in either?!!!
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Lol...I have the same problem with remembering whether or not each rifle is sighted in. Swapping scopes, ring heights, and moving scopes forward and back in the off season is the culprit.
 
BB.........I live in fairly close proximity to others here so I'm afraid the 470 might just over penetrate a touch. Now were it a bull elephant standing on my lawn..........that would be a completely different matter. 470 and slippers would be absolutely appropriate.
 
well done, Douglas! My oldest son used to live in the woods on a small acreage. The last deer HE shot was off his front porch, with a shotgun, and son one naked except for his boots. He claims he got dressed to bring the deer back to the house.................

Doug
 
Mig.........The doe is tomorrow morning with a pointy stick. I resighted my bow this morning and drove 3 arrows into just over an inch, dead center bull at 25 mtrs which is about the range I'll be shooting at from my hay shed door to my apple tree where they like to come and eat apples twice a day every day.

I'll let you know how I make out but I doubt I'll admit to "boning it"
 
Only one thing stands out for me..... and as a rural property owner, I have taken game within a stone’s throw of my house before.....

You need to learn how to retire Douglas ...... :)
 
Do you know the variety of apple that you have that is still dropping apples?

Good luck on the doe.
 
I guess using slippers .You can sneak right up on them then. Congrats on your buck and good hunting for the doe.
 
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