RE: Whats your fastest hunt?
Three years ago on the opening day of gun season, I was hunting at home in the U.P. of Michigan, but it was very warm for Nov. 15 and the fog was unreal. I got to my stand at around 5:30 a.m., well before first light normally, but today it was not until nearly 7:30 before I could even see ten yards. Well, I was sitting there in my blind and I could hear some faint footsteps coming toward me. I looked out the side window of my blind and there was a nice 8-pointer standing there, not 15 feet away. I of course got a little fever, and then I was trying to figure out how to get this deer without him seeing me. So I raised my gun and got it to my shoulder, all below window level and then gently eased the door open just enough to see out of and shot him that way. The total hunt was probably close to 2 hours long, but as far as time from being able to see was about 5 minutes! A 7mm does some damage at the15 foot range! Poor buck nearly had powder burn!