Today is my first day on this site and I wanted to share a funny story about my first kill with you.
I just gotten out of the Marines after 4 faithful years and went hunting with my friend and his dad. After being bored sitting in the woods for several hours I cracked open a beer, lit up a cigarette, and popped in my iPod. I know this is stupid on a variety of different levels but what happened next might change your hunting strategy.
Jamming out and playing air guitar for 10 minutes a dumb ass 7 point calmly walked about 35-45 yards in front of me. Hallelujah! I quickly grabbed my rifle took aim and squeezed
. The buck jumped about 3 feet in the air and took off (I remember being excited as ever).
Tracking its blood I heard a loud CRACK!! Finally finding my kill (or at least what I thought was my kill) I noticed a tree cracked in half laying over its head. My buddy came out of his blind to come and congratulate me on the kill; upon further examination we noticed I shot the buck in its shoulder area. So what we came to conclude was the buck was shot in the shoulder, hauled ass, and after the adrenaline wore off (while going up a small incline) the buck's leg gave out causing him to fall backwards and break its neck on a tree.
This all happened back in 2007, needless to say the guys still haven't stopped making fun of me. I couldn't even kill the deer, I had to have a tree do it for me!