2012 kennym lease hunts 6 DOWN

[Terry Green]

OK...Charlie did have a hot stand and I told him what I wanted to do....and he said that sounded like a sure enough plan.  This is the place I helped Charlie affix a stand in a cedar over a little pond last year that yielded a deer.  With the temps moving north, I figured I'd give this pond area a shot.

[Terry Green]

OK....I verified with Charlie that last year all the deer he encountered from the blind AND the cedar came from the right(north)....and I had a south wind, so the set up was right....lets see what happens...

I was set up in this mess of stuff which surrounded a BIG white oak. The oak had a ring of brush around it but was open and plenty roomy around the trunk. Now, this oak was dropping loads of acorns last year, but not that many this year as I found on my lunch sneak in for a quick peek....but there was a brand new scrape right in front of oak on the other side of the 20 yard stretch of beans to the narrow wood line that surrounded a little pond.  I had seen enough, and with the wind right, I definitely thought it was worth a shot.

I was all ghilied up, sporting my new ghilie beret made by Curt n Cade, and sitting in my new smaller version Hunt More chair checking my texts as I had some time to kill since I'd gotten in there early, and nothing was really going to sneak up on me with my occasional view of the open bean field and curved wood line to my right.

   

   

   

       


I'd been there maybe 15 minutes when I spotted two bucks feeding in the corner of the bean field, but they looked to have been eating acorn instead from a tree that leaned out over the crop. The texting was over and the phone turned off....I was now on point....

   

I was just wondering if they would make it to the pond and the 'shooter' would offer me a shot.....

I would soon find out ....and will always wonder which one of us was the craziest.....

[coaster500]

 


 

[kennym]

You're still excited over Ol' Lucky aren't ya!!  :cool:  

Double post!!  

[coaster500]

You're right I am still excited but one of the posts was on Bowyers Bench and got moved  


Need to see this deer Terry!!!

[kennym]

I meant Terry, I'm a slow typer!!  

[AkDan]

I think this thread should be banned due to the nature of Terry Green sleeping on stand with painted eyelids to look like he's awake!!!  

Great story as usual   .

[kennym]

As a side note: the next 3 hunters are here and killed one doe the first day!!  

And on the ground with a ghillie to boot!!

[Charlie Lamb]

Get some!!

[Gatekeeper]

Spam and Chili…boy I bet that cabin was in serious need of an air ionizer.    

This is a fun thread to read.  

[Izzy]

Dang I dig that hat. You look like Side Show Bob from the Simpsons.  
Keep it coming.

[Tom Leemans]

yeah yeah yeah and...????

[Terry Green]

That wasn't a double post...not sure what happened....the 2nd one was the correct one with more detail.

Sorry about that.....

Guys...I've dealing with some issues with my Dad....please bear with me.

[GRINCH]

Terry your Family comes first,we can wait for a story about your hunt,take care.

[Terry Green]

Here's a story you wont hear much.....

I'm going to tell it because it might happen to you, and it may help someone down the road if it does....I'm sure it might be too embarrassing for some to tell...but hey, it happened....so here goes...

The bucks made there way up to the south entrance of the pond and I *think* both of them went in and got a drink but not sure...but I know one of them jumped in, or was pushed    :D .

Anyhow, the 'shooter' pops back out and starts coming my way and turns to my left walking right along the edge of the wood line and the bow comes up........ I start getting the rhythm of the gate by watching the elbow...

Straight across from me elbow starts forward and arrow is away.... and sails right over his back....

Wow, I really thought I was focused in on that pocket, how did I do that?...

[Terry Green]

So....'Lucky' makes a bolt forward and stop...turns around and takes a look...and walks over and starts feeding on some vines quartering away from me.....the 2nd arrow is away.....right over his back.

This time he bolts further down toward a ditch to the north and looks around....no big deal he thinks, so he start horning a tree.

Now his smaller buddy is doing the same thing to a cedar, the one Charlie killed his deer out of last year, just inside the wood line with the view of the pond behind him.  This buck don't have a clue what is going on.

Now after a couple of minutes, the little buck comes out of the woods just north of me and looks for 'Lucky' and spots him.....but Lucky also sees him and starts back towards me....Huh?  Are you kidding, I just might get another shot?

OK OK...calm down Terry, this is not the biggest buck you've ever seen, nor the biggest buck you've ever killed.  Yeah, he's a nice buck, and yes he would look good on the wall and make for a great story and many fond memories on the grill but he's just a deer Terry....so do your stuff.

He's coming with no reservations and meets up with his buddy and turns broadside closer than he's been before.....and AGAIN.....right over his back!!!!

What the heck am I doing?????  Is this just too easy that I can find a way to focus enough to hit this deer that has given me THREE easy shots???

I'd convinced myself that I couldn't hit him in the butt with a base fiddle if he was sedated and tied to a tree!!!!

[Charlie Lamb]

[Terry Green]

Now both the 'boys' dash off toward the ditch to my left and start milling around, grooming each other, and lightly sparing.  They were in range again soon moving west but Lucky had his back to me offering me no shot,

This went on for about 15 minutes while two does made their way into the pond on the right side to get a drink....they too were at the acorn tree and were clueless of the bright florescent yellow feather birds sailing around.

Finally the bucks started to make a move west grazing on beans.  I stood up and turned my shoulder toward them and waited for yet another shot.  That shot appeared, ever so slightly quartering away....causing a beautiful glow on Lucky's coat and a slight shadow in the crease we hunters long for.  I took a deep breath, and slowly drew the bow and pulled to anchor.....

And again I watched another arrow fly right over his back.  FOUR identical0 shots....an inch over his back and all perfect windage.

I could only laugh as they decided it was time to move....but they did so ever so gingerly.  I watched his rack disappear over the hill silhouetted by the westward sun.....

[Terry Green]

There I was, sitting down again to try and gain some sort of composure, and come to grips with that had just happened.

Sure, I'd missed before,....been a while since I'd missed two animals in a row, cant remember when, and we all get into some sort of funk from time to time, but this was a total dismantling of my abilities to hit an animal that was just right there' FOUR times.

Like I said earlier....I don't know which one of use was out of our minds the most....me for missing the same exact way 4 times, or Lucky for allowing me to get 4 shots at him.

He earned a last name at this moment in time.....

He would now be known as Mr. Lucky Charms.

[huntingarcher]

Man I doin,t know whats going on here.I sent Kenny a PM and put my name on the list,but there seems to be very strange things happening.Charlie's arrows are some how bent like a boomarang and Terry,s bow is shooting high.I may have to give this place some more thought.  :D