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so i pull into my parking spot on public land only to see oooooh.....4 million people and cars. great. i proceed down the path not knowing really were am i going to sit. flashlights are every were. it's like I'm watching the manhunt of a felon on the run. guys pass me and say good luck and i do the same ( thinking the deer are probably in the next county by now). it's about a half hour till sunrise so i decide to cross a creek were I've seen scrapes and were it seems to be less crowded. the sun rises and BOOM BOOM BOOM. fire erupts to the east. the wind is to my back and is blowing east. i scan thinking o.k. they'll run into the wind to scent whats up ahead. BOOM. a hundred yards to the south a shot pierces the dreary silence. o.k. now I'm looking south and east. SPLASH. i look behind me and there he is. running along the edge of some brush and the swamp. he stops and looks right at me. I'm stone. he begins to come into the woods. 40 yards away he is. i raise my cannon. he stops again and looks right at me. i look into his eyes with 3x scope he takes a couple steps. BAAAM! the 465 grain sabot traveling at 1800 feet per second rips through the air. the beast bounds away. two does trailing decide they've seen enough and head the other way only to run into hot, sizzling lead from another fellow brother-in. the buck is gone, i mean disappeared. I'm like WOW. I THOUGH I HIT HIM, MY GUN IS ZEROED TO 100 YARDS I FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH THE SHOOT. no bucking or gasping or any weird body posture/reaction from him after i pulled the trigger. you f*cking dumb a*s james, you missed. well i wait there for 10 minutes, o.k. maybe 3. go over to were i thought i hit him and I'm looking down at the ground with my keen eyesight (i have -4.5 vision in both eyes) and i see two hoof prints in the ground. my head slowly raises up and BEHOLD THE RED CARPET OF SUCCESS. he lay 30 yards from were i shot him with the 3" light-field commander slugs. 9 POINTER. biggest buck I've ever taken men. well i start laughing and call family on the cell. when all is said and done i finally realize the games have just begun. for JIMMY THE FOOT must gut beast and drag through woods, through creek, through more woods, up open hill to little Hyundai. what felt like 7 days later i reach the top, load up the go-cart and head home. YES MEN WHO EVER SAID YOU CAN'T HAVE SUCCESS ON PUBLIC LAND KNOW LITTLE TO NOTHING.
THE HAPPY FOOT
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jesus....
i thought deer hunting was a challenge....
these dam yotes are just the sneekiest boogers
first congrats and second that is what happened with my first deer when i as 11.we were goin up a corn field and to the west was a grove and so i went to about the 3rd row in from the edge and saw 2 deer there eating so i shot one and then started to well up and almost cry cuz my grandpa said i didnt hit it because it didnt jump or kick or anything so we waited a few minets and then i walked to where i shot it and didnt find blood or anything so then i continued farther goin right up the middle of the grove while my grandpa made a circle around the grove in the corn. i got to the middle of the grove and there was a drive up through the middle of it and for some reason i started heading down the driveway and off to the left lay my deer. i had actually shot it right through the heart and it bounced around in the chest and exited right out the middle of the chest. but i suprised my granpa and i that it didnt jump or kick or frankly fall over and die because when we cleaned it i mutalated the heart.
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"Everyone needs to believe in something, I believe I'll go hunting."
its great to see you get such success on public land, but by the sound of it, i would be looking for a new place to hunt. Sounds too dangerous for me with shots beign fired all around you
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BROTHERIN I HAVE BLOODIED THY HANDS
Congrats on the buck and get some pics up!!
