What an incredible hunt!! Can't say enough about Solana, my fellow TG'ers, and the critters!
My hunt started with a beautiful sunrise at the Albany airport.....
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After arriving and getting our gear together,little by little we were all out shooting pieces of prickly pear, out to 40 yds.! My shooting felt real good, I was positive if given the opportunity,I would make it count.....I was ready to hit a treestand!
I was very fortunate to hunt in a group with Terry Green, Joel Smith, Matt Shuster, and Rob DiStefano, and of course our guide supreme,the extremely funny and very entertaining David Shepperd...that guy is the funniest man I've ever been around and an extremely experienced TX hunter.
Got settled and had some visitors within a half hr......
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That's when I got to see first hand just how jittery these deer are....they make an eastern wild turkey look like they're drunk! I have never seen a more paranoid creature in all my years of hunting......
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I was thinking I might shoot the bigger doe,so I inch by inch reached for my bow and managed to get it between my legs as I sat on the low stool in the stand. I wanted it just in case a buck showed, or I decided to shoot her. These deer had me on edge like I've never been,and they were wired beyond belief......then the feeder went off!!!
It scared the living daylight out of me! I jumped so bad, the arrow came right off my bow, and the deer exploded out of there like they were lit on fire! I was fortunate enough to catch the arrow, but it took about 10 minutes for my heartbeat to return to normal!!!!!!
They came back though and fed around for a while till they all looked to my right and then walked away....I knew something was coming.....
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Some good eating.....
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The cows moved off and the three deer came back but wouldn't come all the way in where I needed the big doe to be for a shot. I kept hearing something off to my right and sorta behind me, but I couldn't see real well that way. Again, the deer walked off and I heard something walking right behind me....a big,black,boar hog! at first I thought he was gonna come in in walking right under me to my left....but he was a smart old fella....he was circling downwind!!
As he moved around the Live Oak tree next to my I took the opportunity to switch arrows.....I had 4 BH arrows in my quiver....but one was specifically there just in case a big boar hog showed up...it was a Wensel Woodsman....I figured it's low profile would be better suited to for the thick shield of a big boar. I got the arrow nocked just as he got directly downwind. Clean clothing and a Scent Lok head cover helped I believe, because he kept on coming......