Small buck down
10-07-2015, 06:21 AM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 81
Small buck down
Yesterday started out terrible. First, I got up at 5:00am and headed to the lease but somehow I locked the keys in my truck at the gas station. About half way to my destination, I had a blow out on my ATV trailer. It was 10:00 before I finally made it to the lease so I did some work to pass the time. I finally got in my blind at 2:00 and got settled in.
At 3:00, 3 does shot across my shooting lane and I just knew there was a buck chasing them. Sure enough, I could hear him grunting as he approach the lane. When he came out, I recognized him. Definitely a buck that needed to be taken out so I put the crosshairs on his shoulder and squeezed one off. He went down HARD!!! Sorry but my pictures didn't come out well at all.
I have plenty of meat in the freezer so I'm shooting big bucks only from here on out!!! God bless you all!!!
At 3:00, 3 does shot across my shooting lane and I just knew there was a buck chasing them. Sure enough, I could hear him grunting as he approach the lane. When he came out, I recognized him. Definitely a buck that needed to be taken out so I put the crosshairs on his shoulder and squeezed one off. He went down HARD!!! Sorry but my pictures didn't come out well at all.
I have plenty of meat in the freezer so I'm shooting big bucks only from here on out!!! God bless you all!!!
10-07-2015, 06:30 AM
#2
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
Congratulations on taking meat. What rifle and and load were you shooting? Also how far away was the deer from you when you took the shot? Always nice to know what shoots in one rifle might shoot in another.
10-07-2015, 09:32 AM
#5
Spike
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: North Carolina
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10-07-2015, 02:20 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
Congrats Bigtimer...
I guess that just goes to show you that there's a silver lining to every dark cloud! It would be nice if PA would give us an either sex early ML season after the regular bow season but it'll never happen. We have a doe only early ML season the 3rd week in Oct. and the archery hunters HATE guys out taking a doe with a ML rifle at that time because they say it puts the bucks on edge...
They're probably right, and that's also why PA did it as part of their deer management program implemented by PA game commission biologist Dr. Gary Alt.
BPS
I guess that just goes to show you that there's a silver lining to every dark cloud! It would be nice if PA would give us an either sex early ML season after the regular bow season but it'll never happen. We have a doe only early ML season the 3rd week in Oct. and the archery hunters HATE guys out taking a doe with a ML rifle at that time because they say it puts the bucks on edge...
They're probably right, and that's also why PA did it as part of their deer management program implemented by PA game commission biologist Dr. Gary Alt.
BPS
