Had a great hunt this evening that proved the adage that you should always expect the unexpected.
I saw a doe with a limp and thought It would be a good deer to hunt if it was suffering somehow. When I got close to the area I had seen her she was gone, but I thought i'd hunt the area anyway as she shouldn't be disturbed and shouldn't have gone far. As I stalked up a nice bush gully a massive thunderstorm hit, drenching me in seconds and forcing me to take cover under a small leaning tree fern trunk. It wasnt keeping me very dry but it was better than nothing and kept the water off my back as I knelt hunched underneath it.
As the rain eased a litle I heard a noise behind me and then saw movement from the corner of my eye. I was surprised to see the deer I was after was heading back out after sheltering somewhere near as well and it had just walked past my shelter only 2 meters away!
Luckily I still had an arrow nocked and when it came to the best angle I could hope for I drew back as well as I could from my cramped position.My elbow was hitting the punga trunk so I had to kind of push forward with my bow arm to get a decent draw length, and released at the grand distance of 5 meters. That kind of close shot should be a certainly but due to the weird angle i'd had to shoot from I was a touch uncertain. Though I wasn't surprised when she rolled down the hill 20 meters away.
Approaching I could see she was an ancient deer whose teeth were worn to the gums and she would not have lived through the winter. Pretty happy with the result.
Topic: An unexpected moment. (Read 1924 times)
