SevenMag

Had a great laugh outta my neighbor last night... his nephew got his first deer ever last night, with a bow no less... he's never dressed out a deer before so my dad and I got recruited to "supervise" to procedure... anyway.... he yanks the doe outta the trunk of his uncles Taurus and drags it up into the driveway so he can get a few pictures before we get started... the whole situation was just hysterical considering the area in which we live...

picture this... a typical Chicago suburbia sudivision mostly loaded up with 250-400k dollar homes, most families are pretty typical of mine along our block, 2-4 kids ranging in age from newborns to about 10 yrs old, parents are mostly white collar types and office workers in their 30's and quite a few stay-at-home moms... he lives on a corner of the busiest road in the subdivision and he's out there in camoflage with a big buck knife in hand field dressing a deer in his driveway... he didn't have much light so he pulls the car into the end of the drive and turns the "spot" lights on so everyone driving by can see what he's doin... and oh the stares we got... at least both of my boys (3yrs and 6.5yrs) got a bit of an education last night, they had never seen a dead deer up close, much less how to gut one... they each thought it was pretty cool, though my youngest noted the smell and commented about how the deer farted... I've gotta admit I thought it was cool that he bagged his first deer ever with a bow... but I think the funniest part was when we got ready to load it back into his car to transport to the butcher... he pulled out the garden hose to give it a rinse and filled the cavity with water then drug it down to the end of the drive and dumped the bloody water into the rain gutters... now, he has a nice WHITE car (some import sedan of some type) and after loading there was a really nice blood smear on the rear bumper which looked really impressive along with the LONG blood stain the ran down the curb the length of the uncles house to the corner where the storm drain was... I was just lovin this!!!

anyway, a couple details on the deer itself, 2.5yr old doe, dressed out ~100-105ish, nose-to-eye measurement was 130mm... he took it using a PSE Fire Flite 33 set at 28" and 55lb, shooting cabela's carbon shafts with cabela's 3 blade mechancials... shot from the front into the chest, did not get to the heart but must have hit a MAJOR artery cuz it only went about 15-20yds before she dropped, arrow and broadhead broke off inside... imho, not a choice shot, but, it was a very quick kill... sorry, i've got no pics, if I can get some from my neighbor I will add 'em in later...

at any rate, turns out the kid (I say kid but he's about 24-25 yrs old) works in the Fly Fishing dept at the new Cabela's store out in Hoffman Estates, IL and my tutelage is gonna pay off cuz he says he's gonna hook me up with employee discount stuff and I have a pretty fair sized laundry list to get over the next few months (arrows, releases, broadheads, camo, ammo, etc.)... yeah for me... the kid was excited though, you could tell he was just about excited and pumped up about the deal, it was a cool night...