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11-11-2007 | 08:15 PM

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Mantis Mayer

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From: Corning, NY

RE: 10 - Official Team Germ Warfare Thread

Well I can say it really felt nice to have “that” feeling again after a couple years. The day started with a phone call from a friend that invited me to his dad’s 70acre place for an evening hunt. I took up the offer of course because of the numerous small bucks I’ve been passing by on a regular basis in my stands. We walked the entire property so that I had the layout and then was asked where I would like to hunt. I replied “the 350 acre property we didn’t stink up you mentioned anyone can hunt adjoining the place” So I took the climber, blindscoutingup into a beautiful ridge top that was calling my name since I laid eyes on it. After an hour of speed scouting I found my tree and at 4:30 spotted this guy moving down to a green field below. Two quick grunts put him right on track and this is where the story gets stupid. I had my camera phone out instead of the bow and was taking a wonderful 5yd shot through the view finder, when I realized I should prolly change weapons, this isn’t a spindaly eight after all. I’ve been pressing my luck with only a week left. I lowered the bar a bit which I never thought I’d do, but circumstances at home with the new lil’ man chillin without me sometimes do funny things to a man with too much tree time on the books. If there is such a thing! Anyway I grabbed the Bowtech and drew back which made him edgy and trot about twenty yards away. The shot was a quartering away that I felt confident in and took. After the arrow hit hide it looked less than perfect to me and I was a bit shaken as he ran the one hundred yards before falling over. He laid for 20 min with his head up as I watched through the binos and then got up and walked out of sight. I left the area hoping he wouldn’t be far not knowing exactly what to think. First light I had two friends at the bed I last saw him lay, and to my delight looked towards the direction he walked with the glasses and noticeda brown blob. It was him! He walked just out of sight and fell over the night before. The 100grn Muzzy was planted to the feral end into the heart. A bad looking shot that wasn’t so bad after all.I’ll get a nice European mount done on him, that will look sharp!

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