Bad Morning/GOOD NIGHT!!!
10-05-2003 | 09:26 PM
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Bad Morning/GOOD NIGHT!!!
Well, this morning I was sitting behind a haybale waiting for a doe to emerge from the woods to feed, when I heard something small walking in the corn field not 3 feet away. Hoping it was just a coon I turned and saw, what else but a SKUNK. Ran around the other side of the haybale and he came out right where I was sitting. Put the 10 yard pin on him and let fly. He did manage to make a nice spray of his perfume before he died and got my backpack and everything in it.
At about five this afternoon I went out and hoped I would at least see something. At about 7 oclock when I was walking out past the corn field I heard a deer running through the corn at full tilt. It came out about 10 yds. away and ran with its rearend to me for about another 10 and I grunted to stop it, and possibly turn it around. It turned broadside at 20 yds. and I let fly. Knowing I hit it, I marked where it was standing and where it went into the woods. I called my mom to bring the truck and we tracked it for only 30-40 yds. where it lay dead. When I put the flashlight on its head, I saw it was a button buck.
This was my first season hunting and my first deer, but I still felt kinda bad that it was a button buck.
Anyways, I felt better that it only went 40 yds. and the arrow was a complete passthrough. And the meat we do get will be good eating.
CJW
At about five this afternoon I went out and hoped I would at least see something. At about 7 oclock when I was walking out past the corn field I heard a deer running through the corn at full tilt. It came out about 10 yds. away and ran with its rearend to me for about another 10 and I grunted to stop it, and possibly turn it around. It turned broadside at 20 yds. and I let fly. Knowing I hit it, I marked where it was standing and where it went into the woods. I called my mom to bring the truck and we tracked it for only 30-40 yds. where it lay dead. When I put the flashlight on its head, I saw it was a button buck.
This was my first season hunting and my first deer, but I still felt kinda bad that it was a button buck.
Anyways, I felt better that it only went 40 yds. and the arrow was a complete passthrough. And the meat we do get will be good eating.
CJW
10-06-2003 | 05:10 AM
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Boone & Crockett
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From: Fredericksburg Virginia USA
RE: Bad Morning/GOOD NIGHT!!!
Congrats on your first, do not worry about it being a button, that will happen on occasion, heck I shot a dink 4 point that due to branches I thought was a doe a few years ago, it was buck or doe and I needed meat for the freezer. I will admit though that he would have walked if I had known he was a little 4 point.
10-06-2003 | 06:12 AM
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RE: Bad Morning/GOOD NIGHT!!!
Not to get confrontational here...but why kill the skunk? Did you use it' s meat? Maybe in your state or province, they' re considered varmint/nuisances and can be killed...I don' t know. I just think if somebody kills an animal....it should be used as dinner, that' s all.
Btw, congrats on you deer.
Btw, congrats on you deer.
10-06-2003 | 06:25 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Bad Morning/GOOD NIGHT!!!
Don' t worry about the buttons, congrats on your first deer. It happens to us all at one time or another. Sometimes it just happens so fast that you can' t tell.
