Got up this morning,ligt drizzle, bed sure looked good on my day off, but had not gotten a shot at a deer so far this season, been seeing lots of them, just no decent shot opportunity. I showered, put on my camo and a rain coat, grabbed my stuff and headed to my huntin spot, which this morning happened to be the back deck of a vacation house. It has shrubs growing up past the deck, acts as a natural blind. The back yard of this house has a trail worn out through it, good morning hunt going into the dark side of the moon phase, first time I hunted it this year. 8:10rain stopped, 8:30 here comes a big doe, with twin fawns, starting to lose their spots, right on the trail, will pass me at 15 yds. Then here comes two more does, yearlings, would go about80-85 field dressed. I stay calm, let the parade go by. I was focused on the last one in line when the changed direction towards some acorns falling, changing my angle. Waited and waited, finally got a quartering away shoton left side, pretty steep, but I felt confident. Arrow barely missed the ham, entered behind the last rib, hit paunch, lung and took off the top of heart. She started bucking and ran over the hill about 50yards,steep bank and just made into the woods when she crashed, then rolled about another 40 yards over a bluff, straight up and down, no easy way out. I went home after making sure she was down and out, telechecked her, then took some garbage bags, a cleaver and knife,put them in a frame pack. I walked in peeled the hide off and used it as a tarp, then Quarterd out the shoulders and hams and put in the garbage bag, pulld the Back straps out and packed her out. Came home and finished up my butchering, ended up with 9 large packs of ham steaks, 2 packs of backstraps, 3 bags of stew meat and 3 bags of odds and ends to pressure cook for BBQ! I was using Vapor 2000's, Wensel woodsmans razor sharp, and a #50 Quinn stallion. I measured the shot with a rangefinder when I retrieved the doe, 30 yds on the button. I dont really pay attention to yardage, just if I feel they are in my shooting zone. I practice a lot to around 40 yards, I am confident to about 35 or so.I hunt on the edge of fields alot and this offers a lot of wide open shots. I called the owner of the property, he was gladd, they had destroyed about $1500 in landscaping shrubs, plants and flower this past year. Well, just thought I would share, pepper steak and mushroom gravy for supper tonight, with some wild rice and some cathead biscuits!
Topic: Deer Down in KY! (Read 466 times)
