A 3 month huntin story

[kennym]

Rain today so I moved a stand, now for a Southeast wind.

[Russell Southerland]

 

[kennym]

Dead calm this morn , that's ok cause I have to get some work done in shop.

Here's a couple pics of some I'd like to see...

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[kennym]

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Crippled buck , had pix last year and figured he wouldn't make it thru winter , he's a tough sob. Not sure whether to take him or admire him ...

[arrow30]

if coyotes havent got him yet, is is tough.

[GCook]

From the bur and mass he's a younger deer no? 
Sometimes that antler will straighten out the second year after an injury.   I'd give him a pass.
And even if it's always wonky it may be really cool as a 5 or 6 year old.

[Ryan Rothhaar]

Top and 3rd one is the same deer. I like the gimpy one!

R

[kennym]

Yep Ryan, same clean eight, only diff is he's out in daylight now!! 

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Keep at it kenny

[kennym]

This afternoon I got out of the shop, visited the hunters on lease, and grabbed my stuff and headed to what we call the Rut Stand.  NW wind is perfect for it, and it was light NW this afternoon and around 50 degrees...

Just got set up in the stand and texted bro to tell him I was in that stand, when a deer across the creek moved. Got my binos out and it was a doe, then another set of legs...

These had a tremendous buck attached. 10 points, dark rack foot long tines. Heck his g4 s were 5 or 6" long.

I don't have my deer measured, but bro and I guesstimate score just to tell each other roughly what we see.

My guess on this one would be 150+

He's walking slowly South along other side of creek at 70ish yards (about 52 past my effective range) , so I grunt when I think he is gonna go on.

Nothing, so I hit the rattle bag a little when he is behind a cottonwood. He stops for a minute, then starts slowly on, Now he is in the open,  so what the heck , I snort wheeze.

THAT got his attention, he stands looking hard and mean across the creek  for a minute, then goes back North to a cut down into creek and down in the creek he comes. You can't see down in the creek from my stand but I'm guessin he will come up in a second...

Now I'm on my feet and ready, heart rate is around 200 , trying to breathe quietly ...

[TIM B]

Oh man.....

[kennym]

Well he outsmarted me , never came out and never went back up other bank .

So after relaxing and enjoying nature for awhile , I heard something to my left...

[kennym]

Now this is where my buddy Charlie would let ya hang for a week or 6 but I'm gonna finish up in a bit.

It's not the same buck and not as big but old and gray looking, coming up the field road straight toward me. I'm in the corner of the field so he will either come right in front at 8 yards or go along field road at 15 yards.  He's at 25 yards and I have my fone out to take a pic of him, but for some reason known only to my instincts , I dropped it back in my coat pocket and slipped my bow up out of my rubber boot...

[kennym]

Now he is closing and turns to go along edge of warm season grass field.  Comes into the shooting lane I cut a month ago when I locked the stands back tight on the tree...

[kennym]

Oh yeah , I got a pic of the seat we use on these stands ...

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[kennym]

Ok where were we?

He turns and heads up the edge of the field . I'm at full draw and when he is wide open I give a little meh . He stops and the arrow is gone...


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[kennym]

I watch him bolt thru the tall grass, just before the other edge of the field, he gets behind a tree from me...

Hmmm, figured he would fall before he made it across the little field...

I pick a dead tree on other edge of field where he was headed last time I could see him.

Text bro and tell him I shot one. He said the wind had switched where he was and a doe was stomping a hoof a hundred yards down the timber so he will be over in a bit...

[kennym]

I give him some time since it's early , and while I'm getting my gear together another bigger buck comes from the North, and would have passed in front of me at 8-10 yards if he hadn't seen the big monkey putting stuff in his pack.

[kennym]

So I follow the blood, even tho I know about where he left the field. Found 2 pieces of my arrow, but not the broadhead, which was what I wanted . 6' tall grass is easy to lose stuff in. He only went about 30 yards past where I last saw him. Just made the treeline.

And bonus, he ran toward the truck!

[kennym]

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