Wow, what a weekend! First off I left the house Thursday morning headed to the woods and had to turn around and get my son from school cause he was sick. I actually had to cancel even going with no babysitter but my mom volunteered to watch him, so off to the woods I go. Wife was P.O'ed at me for leaving him, but I just had that feeling about this weekend!
So Friday morning I climb in a stand that is really a good stand to shoot a hog or a doe. I honestly had my mind on either one since we have doe tags and I had not killed a deer yet this year. Sure enough at 7:30 here comes 2 does walking the logging road. I was just about to drop the hammer on the biggest one when she whipped her head around and was staring down the trail behind her. I held off for a second to see what she was looking at and I caught movement coming up behind them. Sure enough it was big daddy. He stopped behind a thicket and let out the deepest nastiest grunt I have ever heard. When he hit a clearing I let one fly. I couldn't see anything for the smoke, but I THOUGHT I heard him crash in the thicket in front of me. I gave him a few minutes and went over to look for blood. NOTHING.....I looked for over an hour and could not find a drop of blood, nothing. At 9:15 i went and got my partner and he wanted to look somemore. His BIl killed a deer 2 weeks ago that never bled a drop with the same bullets I am shooting, so he felt I might have hit it. Well I think he is part indian, because within 10 minutes he found 2 specks of blood that I had to get on all 4's to even see. A couple minutes later we found him piled up and we were giving high fives and celebrating my biggest buck ever!
We estimate him at 3 1/2, weighed 140 pounds and is a perfect 10 pt. He had been doing some battle. He was actually blind in one eye and had gouges allover him from fighting. Turns out I put a perfect quartering away shot on him. It went in behind the ribs and came out in the opposite shoulder. The trauma was tramatic on the inside of the deer, but the entrance and exit were the same size as the bullet. He ended up running about 70 yards. I only have a couple cell phone pics till everyone emails me the rest of them, and a couple I snapped when I got home of the cape. The pictures do not do him any justice
nice buck
Sweet, Congrat's and don't worry the wife will get over it.(you hope) 😆
Very nice buck!
