- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
I had seen one deer all of first week from all our various stands so I took a wild step Saturday morning. I grabbed my folding chair, and my cap light, and headed our an hour and a half early with a pretty good idea of where I wanted to be, but never been there before. I crossed a small swamp in the dark, and made my way along the back side of it to a spot backing on thick stuff, and overlooking hardwoods, where I knew I was close to a couple of trails. I parked myself under a few Balsams, conveniently pruned for me by moose.
Checked my watch, had an hour to legal. Looong wait, Checked again, ten minutes into legal. Looked up, and a big buck had just "appeared".
I got the '94 up, and found the front site invisible, still too dark to shoot. Legal light is to identify your target remember, i could easily do that.
so I waited, he went behind a big rock, and was doing doing something over there, I figured 50 yards away.
Gradually the light improved, I could see the front sight, but only the arse end of the buck. I slowly leaned to the side, and as i did so, he began to move. Crap, he knows somethings up!
He turned, and walked behind the rock again, emerging on the other side, BANG! He jumped forward, and vanished. I ran toward him a few steps hoping for another shot. He was gone! Vanished without a trace, I listened, not a sound. DAMN F"N Ghost deer! CRAP!
So, from where I saw him last I walked a circle looking for his track. Light was gradually improving at this point. And I knew I had to wait when found his track, but where was the track?
Completed the circle, without finding the track. WTF?
I decided to go back to my seat and re-envision the shot. I looked back at the stand, and there he was. My track circle had been too large, he had fallen to the 30-30 within two bounds of where he stood. The vanishing act, was because he bounded down slope from me.
Checked my watch, had an hour to legal. Looong wait, Checked again, ten minutes into legal. Looked up, and a big buck had just "appeared".
I got the '94 up, and found the front site invisible, still too dark to shoot. Legal light is to identify your target remember, i could easily do that.
so I waited, he went behind a big rock, and was doing doing something over there, I figured 50 yards away.
Gradually the light improved, I could see the front sight, but only the arse end of the buck. I slowly leaned to the side, and as i did so, he began to move. Crap, he knows somethings up!
He turned, and walked behind the rock again, emerging on the other side, BANG! He jumped forward, and vanished. I ran toward him a few steps hoping for another shot. He was gone! Vanished without a trace, I listened, not a sound. DAMN F"N Ghost deer! CRAP!
So, from where I saw him last I walked a circle looking for his track. Light was gradually improving at this point. And I knew I had to wait when found his track, but where was the track?
Completed the circle, without finding the track. WTF?
I decided to go back to my seat and re-envision the shot. I looked back at the stand, and there he was. My track circle had been too large, he had fallen to the 30-30 within two bounds of where he stood. The vanishing act, was because he bounded down slope from me.
