mich buckmaster
10-16-2008, 09:34 PM
Here is the WHOLE story!!
The wind has been coming out of the sse for many days making impossible to hunt most of our stands. Let me rewind back to last week!! The wind was coming out of the SSE and I hunted a set that was right on the edge of our North thicket. I was on the NW side and the wind was perfect. I was sitting about a 1/2 hour and saw a doe and fawn directly down wind. They fed in our field for quite a while until finally going into the beans for the night. It really started raining hard and the darkness was closing in. I was in this wooded fenceline and looked behind me to see a really nice buck coming down the run right to me. I stand up, get ready, he steps into my lane and I released the arrow!! He runs in the tall grass right on the edge of the thicket. As I came back to find the deer I noticed that the deer had to move to its right when I shot to avoid a thick brush spot. I think I got the shoulder high because we never found that deer. I have been extremely depressed since then.
October 14, 2008
As I was checking the wind on weather.com I noticed the wind finally is going to be NW wind. We havent seen this wind since opening day, but I figured with the full moon not to hunt. I decided to go put a pop up blind in a great gun spot for Carson and I to hunt out of. As I reached the hunting area I noticed the neighbors were cutting corn RIGHT across the street to one of my favorite sits for a NW wind. I decided to put the pop up blind on hold while I hunt instead. I reached my hunting spot and started the long walk in the irrigation wheel to get to my 21 foot ladder stand. As I came out of the corn I bumped a doe right under the stand, DANG, that stinks for noise. I then had about a 30 yard walk to the stand where I carefully walk on the roots that are above the ground not to make noise on the newly fallen leaves. I tied my bow on and started climbing the stand. When I got a little over 1/2 way up I noticed in the CRP some bushes were being trashed!! I could see antlers through the binoculars and hurried up the stand and got my bow up and ready. The buck worked his way through the CRP and came up behind me to jump the fence and go into the thicket. Man what a rush. Well lots of doe action with a good stare down a couple of times. Well its about 7:00PM and I hear a snap behind me, and I notice a buck is five yards from my tree. I have NO shot that direction at all. If he comes under me he may smell the stand where I climbed or if he goes back where he came from I will have no shot. Unknowing to me there was a faint trail where he jumps the fence in over-head high weeds to go out into the corn. This is when I made my move, the buck jumped the fence, I stood around to see where I could shoot, I made sure he was a shooter QUICKLY, then pulled my Hoyt back. I had to move back a little to avoid a limb that is my cover up above me, and planted that pin behind the shoulder and released. I could see about 6 inches of my arrow sticking out of the deer and he ran about 70 yards and made one last jump. I didnt see him fall but I knew he was done. I will say tracking that deer later was something. There was NO blood and he was in CRP. I about ran right into him, but we found him. To make the story even more exciting is that the deer broke the deer cart, and we had to drag the deer out about 1000 yards through a corn field and IT WAS TERRIBLE. The things we will do for a nice buck. The deer was over 200# I had to guess field dressed, just a brute. The rack is a basic ten point frame and I couldnt be happier. What makes stories like this classic stories is that I was able to share this with Swamp Monster, Rick, my brother, and my father. What memories we gain every year!!
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The wind has been coming out of the sse for many days making impossible to hunt most of our stands. Let me rewind back to last week!! The wind was coming out of the SSE and I hunted a set that was right on the edge of our North thicket. I was on the NW side and the wind was perfect. I was sitting about a 1/2 hour and saw a doe and fawn directly down wind. They fed in our field for quite a while until finally going into the beans for the night. It really started raining hard and the darkness was closing in. I was in this wooded fenceline and looked behind me to see a really nice buck coming down the run right to me. I stand up, get ready, he steps into my lane and I released the arrow!! He runs in the tall grass right on the edge of the thicket. As I came back to find the deer I noticed that the deer had to move to its right when I shot to avoid a thick brush spot. I think I got the shoulder high because we never found that deer. I have been extremely depressed since then.
October 14, 2008
As I was checking the wind on weather.com I noticed the wind finally is going to be NW wind. We havent seen this wind since opening day, but I figured with the full moon not to hunt. I decided to go put a pop up blind in a great gun spot for Carson and I to hunt out of. As I reached the hunting area I noticed the neighbors were cutting corn RIGHT across the street to one of my favorite sits for a NW wind. I decided to put the pop up blind on hold while I hunt instead. I reached my hunting spot and started the long walk in the irrigation wheel to get to my 21 foot ladder stand. As I came out of the corn I bumped a doe right under the stand, DANG, that stinks for noise. I then had about a 30 yard walk to the stand where I carefully walk on the roots that are above the ground not to make noise on the newly fallen leaves. I tied my bow on and started climbing the stand. When I got a little over 1/2 way up I noticed in the CRP some bushes were being trashed!! I could see antlers through the binoculars and hurried up the stand and got my bow up and ready. The buck worked his way through the CRP and came up behind me to jump the fence and go into the thicket. Man what a rush. Well lots of doe action with a good stare down a couple of times. Well its about 7:00PM and I hear a snap behind me, and I notice a buck is five yards from my tree. I have NO shot that direction at all. If he comes under me he may smell the stand where I climbed or if he goes back where he came from I will have no shot. Unknowing to me there was a faint trail where he jumps the fence in over-head high weeds to go out into the corn. This is when I made my move, the buck jumped the fence, I stood around to see where I could shoot, I made sure he was a shooter QUICKLY, then pulled my Hoyt back. I had to move back a little to avoid a limb that is my cover up above me, and planted that pin behind the shoulder and released. I could see about 6 inches of my arrow sticking out of the deer and he ran about 70 yards and made one last jump. I didnt see him fall but I knew he was done. I will say tracking that deer later was something. There was NO blood and he was in CRP. I about ran right into him, but we found him. To make the story even more exciting is that the deer broke the deer cart, and we had to drag the deer out about 1000 yards through a corn field and IT WAS TERRIBLE. The things we will do for a nice buck. The deer was over 200# I had to guess field dressed, just a brute. The rack is a basic ten point frame and I couldnt be happier. What makes stories like this classic stories is that I was able to share this with Swamp Monster, Rick, my brother, and my father. What memories we gain every year!!
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd215/michbuckmaster_bucket/P1010241.jpg?t=1224207063
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd215/michbuckmaster_bucket/IMG_3170.jpg?t=1224207174