Originally Posted by Father Forkhorn

Went out this morning with the muzzleloader and downed a doe for the backstraps.

A shift in the wind (shifty winds were a real problem today) right before legal shooting light forced me to abandon my spot overlooking a wooded draw that leads to a bedding area. I was on a hillside and decided to back out, use the hill to shield my movement, and circle to a place where the wind was right, and then still hunt from there up through the draw.

To do that, I had to circle a pond and saw 4-5 does walking toward me below the dam. Once they came into range, the first one that turned broadside was going home in the pickup. An easy fifty yard shot and I saw her drop.

The only other drama: vultures. I dressed the deer out and then noticed several vultures over head. I managed to cover the deer with several boards and an overturned picnic table and they stayed away long enough to walk for the truck.