This year has been a long one with many hours in the field and many miles on the boots. I had some great times and learned more about my farvorite haunts than any year but still I have been 1" away all year. I had blamed it hard units and bad luck but really for some reason this year I couldn't do anything right. I had four tags this year but had successfully had tag soup 3 times. My last big game hunt this year was an antlerless tag I had put in for to help my nephew harvest his frist deer and a little string time for myself.
It has been a cazy month which left me without anytime to hunt for myself. I hunted a half day on opening morning with sevaral fail stalks,it was just to crunchy. A few does were still in heat then and I spent too much time trying to take pic's of bucks. Between becoming real sick,extreme weather,new job and an unexpected surgery on my wife the month flew by. What litle time I did have went to helping my nephew,dad and a friend with thier tags and proccessing of meat.
I had two days off this week and one was spent proccessing other people's deer. I finally had time for myself. I wanted to do a spot and stalk style hunt to practice my skills. My day off was spent glassing deer and doing stalks. This time of the year the deer are concentrated on the winter range in big herds which means lots of eyes. Now if you were hunting with a firearm on this hunt it is real easy. The deer are watched nightly by people putting around in there vehicals looking for big bucks. It keeps them pretty tame as long as you stay in you vehical. Getting within a hundred yards of a bedded deer is not that hard this time of year but to stalk within trad range is just as tough as anytime IMO. I had alot of fun crawling around making stalks but I always got busted or didn't have a clear shoot.
Now I was left with only a couple of mornings to hunt before work so I was going to make it easy and sit in a ambush location were I had been seeing 50+ deer travel through each day. My set up was behind some tall sagebrush and the deer were headed my way. I picked out a big doe and hit my anchor when her head was down. My heart sank as I watched the arrow go low and nick her brisket taking a few hairs. They were all gone in a flash but a few fawns that I let walk by at 5 yards.
Topic: December doe hunt story and pics (Read 545 times)
