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Old 01-12-2004 | 03:47 AM
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Gobbling Buck
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Default RE: Just wondering...... what are some of the not so smooth moves you've ever done while deer hunting?

Here are a couple (of many)
First....I got a chance to go hunt some new property with a guy from work. This was the first time he and I had ever hunted together and we were on some of his family's land. We meet up at a local store and I follow him out to the land. After parking our trucks, we establish our game plan of where we are going to go. Me being new on the property, he decides to take me close to the area I'll be hanging my climber. Well, I get my gear gathered up and strap on my stand and backpack and we're off. We get about 3/4 of the way to where I'm going and are about to cross a fence, so I went to hand him my gun and..........How the hell do you forget your gun?[][]

Second.....Me an bamabuck27 were on a turkey hunt. With both of us being new to the sport (my 2nd year/his first) I was guiding the hunt. We got out of the truck to birds gobbling within 200yds. We sneak up a bit closer using the hills as cover trying to make it to a tree line on the edge of the clear cut we were in. We didn't make it, had to hunker down in the clear cut and try to find the best cover as possible. I told him which direction the birds would come, but he sat up towards the gobble. Called up 3 longbeards within 25yds. They were hammerin. The gobbles had been so close then so far away. I low crawled to his position and asked him if he saw the birds. He said yeah. I said why didn't you shoot? He said I wasn't pointed that way and I thought they'd fly off. He said it was a heck of a show though, they were all in full strut right there. Well, the birds hadn't moved far, so we snuck across the top of the hill and around to the fire break from whence they came and set up just under the hill crest. This is where my smooth move happened. There was one limb that was in my way. I decided to take out my trusty pocket knife and fix the problem so not to make too much racket. As I was attempting to cut the limb, the birds gobbled right on the other side of the hill........the knife slipped out of the limb and across the knuckle of my left middle finger cutting the tendon half in two. I still got a shot off after being cut............but to add insult to injury, I missed. Got 5 trophy stiches out of the deal though.
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