A Story for you
11-05-2002, 09:35 AM
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Typical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cottage Grove Oregon
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A Story for you
Will add the Picture later when hunting-pictures.com gets back to me with a pass word
As I write this I am waiting for my password from hunting-pictures.com so I can add it to the story. Note I try to only take sure one shot one kill opportunities. I have shooting lanes for all my stands, and the rifle is a 270 model 70. Any way here we go.
Up early for the second day ,Saturday, of the rifle season. As is my habit I was reading the rules again and the season opens at sunrise catches my attention so I check and it is 0541 hours I get ready and off to the stand with a plan to arrive about 0540. I get there, this stand is very safe I use an aluminum ladder, I eat the noise for the convenience, any way I climb up with some metallic noise and hang my pack and rifle. I don’t know why but I check my watch because it is pretty dark still 0543 hours, the season is on. After 10 seconds or so I hear clop clop clop got to be a deer noise. I look towards the noise and can just make out a shape (DEER) about 35 yards in some light bush. Deer moves a few steps and all I can see is the body with the head behind a tree. It s still dark enough that detail is difficult . I put up the scope and am right on the front leg bring it up, think - breathe, squeeze and bang!! ( I do know at this point that this is a good size deer.) Deer does a 180 and bolts down a dead end as far as the woods goes about 10 acres and big roads. I wait a few minutes and go to the hit site and no carnage, follow the exit route and no blood ( It is still hard to see detail, you know the long dusk in the woods) . look around for 100 yards or so and nothing. I decide to go back to the stand and wait so as to not disturb the woods any more and push a bad shot. This waiting is the hardest thing in hunting. I start to have all kinds of doubts, was it a dead miss, did the deer move, am I going insane and other grisly thoughts. After 30 minutes I start to explore and find some blood, a few drips, just past where I was before. Back to the stand for another 45 minutes, as I want a wounded deer to bed down hard. I am still thinking a dead on kill shot from the 270 would have shown more sign and dropped the deer in a 100 yards plus how far out I could see. More crazy thoughts while waiting, boy can 45 minutes seem like all morning. I explore again and find the blood trail heavy at 30 more yards than before. I got lots of blood. On a 10’ wide path and easily follow the blood splotches for 150 yards and there is a 200 lb 10 pointer. He was shot through the top of the heart, one shot one kill,. How he walked almost 300 yards I don’t know. He was 7-8 years old had no teeth left.
What a way to open the season, by the way my personnel best. Hope the picture attaches.
As I write this I am waiting for my password from hunting-pictures.com so I can add it to the story. Note I try to only take sure one shot one kill opportunities. I have shooting lanes for all my stands, and the rifle is a 270 model 70. Any way here we go.
Up early for the second day ,Saturday, of the rifle season. As is my habit I was reading the rules again and the season opens at sunrise catches my attention so I check and it is 0541 hours I get ready and off to the stand with a plan to arrive about 0540. I get there, this stand is very safe I use an aluminum ladder, I eat the noise for the convenience, any way I climb up with some metallic noise and hang my pack and rifle. I don’t know why but I check my watch because it is pretty dark still 0543 hours, the season is on. After 10 seconds or so I hear clop clop clop got to be a deer noise. I look towards the noise and can just make out a shape (DEER) about 35 yards in some light bush. Deer moves a few steps and all I can see is the body with the head behind a tree. It s still dark enough that detail is difficult . I put up the scope and am right on the front leg bring it up, think - breathe, squeeze and bang!! ( I do know at this point that this is a good size deer.) Deer does a 180 and bolts down a dead end as far as the woods goes about 10 acres and big roads. I wait a few minutes and go to the hit site and no carnage, follow the exit route and no blood ( It is still hard to see detail, you know the long dusk in the woods) . look around for 100 yards or so and nothing. I decide to go back to the stand and wait so as to not disturb the woods any more and push a bad shot. This waiting is the hardest thing in hunting. I start to have all kinds of doubts, was it a dead miss, did the deer move, am I going insane and other grisly thoughts. After 30 minutes I start to explore and find some blood, a few drips, just past where I was before. Back to the stand for another 45 minutes, as I want a wounded deer to bed down hard. I am still thinking a dead on kill shot from the 270 would have shown more sign and dropped the deer in a 100 yards plus how far out I could see. More crazy thoughts while waiting, boy can 45 minutes seem like all morning. I explore again and find the blood trail heavy at 30 more yards than before. I got lots of blood. On a 10’ wide path and easily follow the blood splotches for 150 yards and there is a 200 lb 10 pointer. He was shot through the top of the heart, one shot one kill,. How he walked almost 300 yards I don’t know. He was 7-8 years old had no teeth left.
What a way to open the season, by the way my personnel best. Hope the picture attaches.
