Got home from work at 3:45 pm on monday as usual and after a few minutes chating with wife and kids I said I'm gonna hurry up and go hunt. Normally I like to shower before a hunt but I wouldn't have the time so just left on my thermals that I wore at work all day and changed my work clothes to hunting clothes and grabbed the bow and lonewolf climber and headed for the public land just down the road from me.
I've got a spot I'v hunted for a handfull of years now that i like and had killed a few deer there so i knew where to go and what tree to set in. By 4:30 I was all settled in hoping to get a chance at a doe that I had seen saturday evening. This spot is mostly a doe travel area. As I walked in it felt good that the wind was perfect. However I did notice a fresh huge scrape not only 5 yards from the tree I planned to set my stand and on the path I walk in on. And yes it would be down wind of me slightly. Oh well that was not my intentions to hunt a scrape as I usually see the does heading north and south not coming from northeast as the scrape was.
At 5:30 seen the 3 does that I seen saturday, about same spot and I passed on a twenty yard shot on a fawn as I wanted to see where the big doe was going. well it never worked out and off they went on their way. Five mintues later comes another doe but stays farther out never giving me a chance. Then at 6pm I notice a deer standing in the scrape only five yards away, a button buck checking scrape and rubbing his head on some brush. carefully I stood and turned on the stand to get into a shooting position. The deer never knew I was there and even got to about 3 yards and then turned back to rub the brush again and that was the time I picked a spot and released. It was a steep angle cause he was close despite me only being about 8 feet up the tree and also he was sharply quartering away. Arrow looked ok as long as it punched out the left side chest and it did as i found. I did not see him or hear him go down so I waited till dark and got down. I heard some snorting a deer take off and feared the worst so I easily walked out and went back in the morning. apparently there was another deer in the thick brush that had snorted and not the one I shot as I followed the good blood trail to only 40 yards and there lay the dead deer. The spot he dropped was a small patch of grass and really soft so I think thats why I never heard him go down. The wood shaft and 3 blade VPA head did it's job!
Sure am glad that I decided to go hunt a couple hours. So get out there every chance you can.
Topic: Working mans deer hunt (Read 576 times)
