Climbed on a beautiful ridge this evening. It was a bit humid but it was good to be hunting. I have been busy at work and doing other stuff and have not hunted a lot the last few weeks. Its a blessing to have a job so I ain`t complaining.
I put a trail cam on this ridge last Wednesday over a scrape figuring I would get some night time pics and much to my surpise when I checked it this morning there were a few daytime pics.
I got geared up and stepped out in the yeard to check the wind. With a wind from the North I have a very good branch to hunt on the other side of a "sock" field...
But this evenings wind would put me on a post/live oak ridge deer were feeding on. I climbed about 150 yards from my scrape where I had the camera and got these pics from the last couple of days...
I climbed a tree and settled in for the evening...
A pic from my perch..
This is actually an Island but with the swamp being so dry it is only cut on one side by water. On really wet years this is a very hot spot for deer and is also where I killed my "Hawked" Gobbler this past Spring.
As it got late Squirrels began to bark to the South and I could feel something was about to happen. I stood up and got ready but after several minutes I began to think it must just be talkative treerats but then spotted some movement and a doe was coming. at about 20 yards she turned and angled towards me then off to my right. No shot again...I have had a lot of hunts like that this year. Just as she hooked around some palmettos and was almost out of hearing I looked to my left and a deer was standing there. Fell out of the sky I think becuse I know I should have heard it . i`ve only killed two der this year and need to fill the freezer so no matter what size or sex if it got close enough it would get attacked by a shark.
At 13 yards the deer turned sideways to go through the palmettos and the arrow was gone. looked far back but the der gave me a favorable move and whrled away on impact allowing my poor shot to angle forward a bit.I listened as it ran and got a compass bearing. I knew my shot was bad so I climbed down and came home. I gave the deer about 4 hours and took up a surprisingly good blood trail for a shot to far back. After a bit over an hour and about 400 yards I found the deer.
The arrow had stayed in and the deer never bedded as I thought it would with time. I got liver and not just paunch and the deer had been down for a while as it was stiff. The Big Simmons paid off again . Shots like this one is the reason I shoot big broadheads most of the time.Thank you Lord for the third deer of the year.RC
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