Got another doe last night!!!!!!!!!
09-05-2003, 06:58 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: St. Mary\'s County Maryland USA
Posts: 393
Got another doe last night!!!!!!!!!
Alirght, I am part of a crop damage permit so it' s not actually hunting season here in MD. This is the second doe I' ve taken. I saw some does out in the field last night and couldn' t decide between my bow or my shotgun. I grabbed the shotgun just to be safe, after all, I' m not " hunting" per se but thinning the heard. So I thought it was more responsible to take the shotgun.
So it' s a light rain (which was nice, it covered my sound) and I' m sneaking through the edge of the woods and get to about where I think the deer are in the field. I see a fawn on the edge of the field and I get behind a big pine. The fawn comes into the woods and beds down 30 yds away!!!! So I wait, and a big doe starts coming down the same trail off the field. I get my gun ready and she stops 20 yds away, BANG!!!!! She takes off. So I go over to where I had shot at her and I see another doe, she' s sneaking through the woods checking me out. She gets out from behind a root ball and BANG!!!!!! I got her right in the shoulder. Now I can' t find any blood from the first one so I start following the trail she took thinking she was running so not much blood.
Long story short I find the second deer, can' t find the first one and I' m kicking myself. I can' t understand why I can' t find her, the wood lot wasn' t very big and I looked everywhere. Finally I go back to where she was standing when I shot and I look at this holly tree and think " What, did that get hit by lightening or something" turns out I shot a perfectly good holly tree instead of the first doe. Didn' t even see it. I' m mad at myself for not making a good shot but relieved that I didn' t loose a hit deer.
Another crop damage tag filled.
So it' s a light rain (which was nice, it covered my sound) and I' m sneaking through the edge of the woods and get to about where I think the deer are in the field. I see a fawn on the edge of the field and I get behind a big pine. The fawn comes into the woods and beds down 30 yds away!!!! So I wait, and a big doe starts coming down the same trail off the field. I get my gun ready and she stops 20 yds away, BANG!!!!! She takes off. So I go over to where I had shot at her and I see another doe, she' s sneaking through the woods checking me out. She gets out from behind a root ball and BANG!!!!!! I got her right in the shoulder. Now I can' t find any blood from the first one so I start following the trail she took thinking she was running so not much blood.
Long story short I find the second deer, can' t find the first one and I' m kicking myself. I can' t understand why I can' t find her, the wood lot wasn' t very big and I looked everywhere. Finally I go back to where she was standing when I shot and I look at this holly tree and think " What, did that get hit by lightening or something" turns out I shot a perfectly good holly tree instead of the first doe. Didn' t even see it. I' m mad at myself for not making a good shot but relieved that I didn' t loose a hit deer.
Another crop damage tag filled.
09-05-2003, 09:59 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orma WV USA
Posts: 1,791
RE: Got another doe last night!!!!!!!!!
Hmm...when I posted that a buddy of mine had shot at a deer, then shot at another a few seconds later, I got ripped into by the messiah' s of hunting around here...so if people might get on your case if you don' t have a solid reason for shooting at one deer and then another without finding the first. This is just fair warning.
I still have to wait for 26 more days
09-08-2003, 05:38 PM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: KUNKLETOWN PA United States
Posts: 872
RE: Got another doe last night!!!!!!!!!
congratulations on you doe but ,
if you would' ve got the first deer , wouldn' t you' ve gotten in a bit of trouble ??? i don' t know much about crop damage hunting so i was just asking
congratulations buddy
if you would' ve got the first deer , wouldn' t you' ve gotten in a bit of trouble ??? i don' t know much about crop damage hunting so i was just asking
congratulations buddy
09-09-2003, 06:17 AM
#8
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: St. Mary\'s County Maryland USA
Posts: 393
RE: Got another doe last night!!!!!!!!!
Thanks guys.
Whelen, there' s no daily limit on the number of tags you can fill on a crop damage permit. And the landowner has 20 doe tags. It would have been a lot of work to get two deer out of the woods but it would have been two less does on his farm.
Whelen, there' s no daily limit on the number of tags you can fill on a crop damage permit. And the landowner has 20 doe tags. It would have been a lot of work to get two deer out of the woods but it would have been two less does on his farm.
