I've been watching this herd of goats coming to water for a few days and today had a chance to get away for a little while. Since I'm too dang claustrophobic and can't seem to hit anything from a blind I threw my ladder stand up in a hawthorn bush next to the river where they'd been coming thru. They say antelope seldom look up and today prooved it, my feet aren't 8' off the ground and I should have stuck out like sore thumb. With a dozen of the sharpest eyes around within 10 yards I was able to draw my bow completely un-noticed. This old girl was unlucky enough to be closest and was also one of the biggest of the bunch. No bucks were in sight and these are way too tastie to pass up so she was "it".
Was shooting my 58# BBO LB by Keith Deters. First kill of hopefully many with it, sweet shooter, AD shafts and a Tusker head. Since I've got two more tags I plan to go back and do the same thing again tomorrow
She's got the biggest horns, 4 1/2", of any doe I've ever seen.
Here's what the stand looked like, it was pretty wobbly but the goats standing right under it didn't care.
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