I went out to my 160 acre farm for an evening hunt, and what a hunt it turned out to be.
She blew and took 2 bounds and then just stood looking around. She was confused as to what I was so she just slowly walked off into the woods.
10 minutes later I caught movement again in the same direction that the fawn had come from and a big doe stood 20 yards away, looking in my direction. She stood there for a long time and I was wondering what she was looking at so I turned my head to the right and there he was, an 8pt buck! :eek:
He was cautiously was walking towards the doe and trying to look in the corn to see what the doe had been suspiscious of. Soon he was about 3 yards away from me and 1 step from being in my only shooting lane. As he entered the shooting lane I slowly began to draw but he caught movement and took a few bounds into the woods.
This was the same 8pt that I had the encounter with earlier this week but believe me, he seemed much larger and had more mass than I remembered. Maybe it is because I was on the ground this time instead of in a tree. :confused:
Anyways, I watched him casually walk off through the woods so he didn't seem really spooked.
5 minutes later I saw several deer comming out of the woods about 40 yards away. The first one to walk by me was a doe fawn, but the 2nd one was a big doe that was limping really bad.
I decided right away to take her and not wait to see if the buck would come back out.
She was along the edge of the woods 18 yards away and I picked a spot, drew, and released. The arrow hit her in the shoulder blade and dropped her in her tracks. I quickly ran up and put a finishing shot into her and she expired within a few seconds.
Turns out that she had an old injury and she was missing her leg from about half way from the knee joint to her foot. The skin had grown over it but she acted like it really hurt to walk. Here's tripod..............
Topic: Ground venison ala Thunderstick MOAB (Read 4274 times)
