HuntingNet.com Forums - My 2007 Ohio 10 point

I haven't been on here in a long while but I took a nice deer yesterday and decided to posta pic. I love reading about others successes and it keeps me going so I figured I'd return the favor.

I am a bowhunter at heart but gun season started yesterday and the neigboring land is hunted hard. In fact its hunted hard enough I have only seen 6-7 deer this year in all the days I have bowhunted. So opening day I decided to go gun hunting instead of going to work. It was pouring down rain when I walked out the door. I almost stayed home. I figured I'd go ahead and see if it would slow down in the early morning. No such luck. I got in my stand well before daylight over looking a good sized overgrown feild. I got soaked! I hadn't grabed any rain gear as I didn't figure on it raining the whole time.
Anyway, I had only seen a couple birds. Nothing else seemed to be moving. I decided, at 8:20 am or so, I'd wait for fifteen more minutes and then pack it up. A few minutes later on my left out in the feild I caught movement. 3 deer. Moving fast. Two headed away from me. Looked like a small buck chasing a doe. But it was fast. The other deer, an average sized doe, circled in front of me. My binos were so wet and I had nothing to dry with I couldn't get a look with them. So I used my shotgun scope but it still was blurry. Deciding to shoot a doe or not I looked for the other two out in the feild. Farther to the left this 10 point was standing pretty as can be broadside. No need to decide if he was a shooter. I quickly got turned and made a 80 yard shot. He went right down but I did not kill him right away. I had broken his back and ended up having to walk up and finish him off with a shot to the lungs.

He's my biggest deer and I am excited to have him. Thanks for re-living the hunt with me.