GOONSQUADER
10-01-2006, 11:42 PM
Smoked a 6 pointer! 35 yard shot right through the heart, thought he was a 7 but I'm happy anyway. The whole Story:
Get to my stand about 6:15 this morning, and the tow rope for my bow had been cut off about half way up (for the second season in a row, the guy north of me is a dick). So I climb up half way with the bow on my shoulder and tie it to the rope, climb all the way up to the stand...and the bow got stuck on a tree step---sigh. So, I climbed back down and carried it up all the way, of course I dropped my pen light (while it was on) to the base of the tree. So I had to climb down again. Got back up for the third time, and set up, but I figured everything for a few miles heard that ruckus, and my hunt was shot. However, about 7:00 am I hear a deer blowing in the field 200 yards to the west of me so I guess not all the deer knew where I was. The snorting was at my buddie's spot (he started hunting 3 years ago and has not gotten a deer yet). He was drawing back on a doe when a spike saw the movement and started blowing, loudly! Aparently the buck ran in circles in the field blowing (lasted about 30 min) before he walked to about 50 yards from my buddy, looked right at him, and walked away. This bugger was loud!
So again, I assumed my hunt was done this morning because of that noise. However, at about 8:00 am a six point came tearing through...somthing had spooked it about 200 yards north of me (think its the dick that cut my tow rope). Then 15 min later 3 bucks wandered in on the same path they do every year, at the same time they do every year, (for the past 3 years) and spent 30 min in front of me fighting and playing around. I thought it was a spike, a six, and a seven. After about 30 min I decided I couldn't hold out for a bigger buck anymore, and took what I thought was the seven. However, he was missing a brow-tine and ended up being a six. He was standing at 35 yards, broad side, looking the other direction. I put a hole through his heart and he dropped in 40 yards. Smoked him, this is the third year in a row that I got a buck opening morning (for all of those out there that say early season hunting isn't worth it :corkysm55 ).
After the three bucks left, or at least two left:lol: , I spent another hour in my stand and had 4 does walk through on the same path the bucks took. (And a squirel).
All in all, a great morning hunt, except for the dick that cut my tow rope. :smile-mad
Get to my stand about 6:15 this morning, and the tow rope for my bow had been cut off about half way up (for the second season in a row, the guy north of me is a dick). So I climb up half way with the bow on my shoulder and tie it to the rope, climb all the way up to the stand...and the bow got stuck on a tree step---sigh. So, I climbed back down and carried it up all the way, of course I dropped my pen light (while it was on) to the base of the tree. So I had to climb down again. Got back up for the third time, and set up, but I figured everything for a few miles heard that ruckus, and my hunt was shot. However, about 7:00 am I hear a deer blowing in the field 200 yards to the west of me so I guess not all the deer knew where I was. The snorting was at my buddie's spot (he started hunting 3 years ago and has not gotten a deer yet). He was drawing back on a doe when a spike saw the movement and started blowing, loudly! Aparently the buck ran in circles in the field blowing (lasted about 30 min) before he walked to about 50 yards from my buddy, looked right at him, and walked away. This bugger was loud!
So again, I assumed my hunt was done this morning because of that noise. However, at about 8:00 am a six point came tearing through...somthing had spooked it about 200 yards north of me (think its the dick that cut my tow rope). Then 15 min later 3 bucks wandered in on the same path they do every year, at the same time they do every year, (for the past 3 years) and spent 30 min in front of me fighting and playing around. I thought it was a spike, a six, and a seven. After about 30 min I decided I couldn't hold out for a bigger buck anymore, and took what I thought was the seven. However, he was missing a brow-tine and ended up being a six. He was standing at 35 yards, broad side, looking the other direction. I put a hole through his heart and he dropped in 40 yards. Smoked him, this is the third year in a row that I got a buck opening morning (for all of those out there that say early season hunting isn't worth it :corkysm55 ).
After the three bucks left, or at least two left:lol: , I spent another hour in my stand and had 4 does walk through on the same path the bucks took. (And a squirel).
All in all, a great morning hunt, except for the dick that cut my tow rope. :smile-mad