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Old 02-23-2004 | 07:17 PM
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silentassassin
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Default RE: Story time, tell us your most memorable hunts

Well this is actually a cut n paste (with a few more details added) from another one of my posts in the tech forum. But, it also qualifies as one of my more memorable hunts.

It was about 10:15 I passed a doe because she was running and looking back. It was Dec. 1 so I was sceptical that she was being chased by a buck but I waited anyway. No buck came! Then about 10:30 and I looked up and there was another doe running straight at me. I was hunting about 250 yards from a group of duck hunters (I was hunting flooded timber). I could hear the duck hunters getting ready to leave so I didn't think anything about the doe running. I thought she was getting away from them. I started to stand up and I let out a loud grunt as I was standing. The doe had already come to a stop, as I stood the rest of the way up. I grabbed my bow, hooked my release and shot in a matter of about 1.5 - 2 seconds from the time I saw the doe until the time I shot. The doe ran off and I hung my bow up to watch her and mark trees (not much of a blood trail in the water). As I was watching I heard something behind me that sounded like a buck grunt. I continued to watch the doe and heard it again. Then it dawned on me that it was a buck grunting. I turned around and there was a pretty nice 8 about 40 yards out trotting straight for my tree. I looked down and grabbed my bow from the EZ hanger and then grabbed an arrow out of my qwiver that was also hanging on the hanger. I looked down and the buck was about 25 yards. I then knocked an arrow and hooked my loop and by then he was about 18 yards. I grunted as I was drawing and he stopped. I put the pin behind his shoulder and realeased and he didn't even make it as far as the doe did. There roughly 5 seconds from the time I saw the buck until the time I shot him and I killed two deer in less than 30 seconds. We check in on the radio hourly and I had talked to my buddy at 10:00, he called at 11:00 and asked me if I had seen anything. I was proud to report that I had killed 2.
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