After 6-7 trips to the timber and not seeing a deer, last night I go once again and it's lowers 30's and snowing like crazy. Friends & family think I've finally lost it, but I know ya can't kill a deer on the couch. After sitting an hour and again seeing "0", I hear movement on the fenceline I am on. It's a darn coon coming down it and I am thinking he wants to climb the tree I am in. He finally goes on down the fencerow as I watch him I see movement behind him. It's a 6 pt buck sneaking in. I wanted something bigger this year (don't we ALL?), but decided that my schedule may not allow me much more hunting AND he will beat the heck out of TAG SOUP!

So as he enters the thick fencerow, I raise the Black Pearl (Black CVA Optima Pro 50 Cal) and put him in the crosshairs of the new Nikon ProStaff scope as he starts to exit it. Once he stops, I squeezed off the trigger. He heads away down the fencerow and I wonder...HOW DID I MISS? I couldn't have......I quickly get down and check for blood. Nice blood and hair on the ground where he was hit. I decide to follow up quickly as it was snowing and I didn't want to lose his path. Very little blood trail, but I could follow him in a few snow patchs and the turned over leaves. He went 75 yards and I found him piled up. He was hit with 2 Pyrodex Pellets and a 350gr Hornaday FPB from about 40 yards if that far.

It was a double lung shot but I was dissappointed that he didn't fall in his tracks. I feel it was my fault though. I hit him perfectly where I aimedBUT I once again aimed for the entrance and not the exit as he was slightly quartering too me. So the entrance was perfect, the exit wasback just a little. Live and learn but it does happen FAST. I had to act quickly because in about 15-20 more yards and he would have had my wind.

It did keep the Black Pearls streak alive though. Shot 5 times at deer and she's 5 for 5 on 1 shot kills!

Sorry for the bad picture!