Yesterday was a freakin whirlwind! Me, CPO and John (fraternity brother) headed out to the farm about 0515 and after some trapsing around for settled in our spots ready for the
Army to let loose. It was cool and misty at about 35f. The sweet musk of the hardwoodswas thick and I breathe it in a slowly as I could.
Someone nearby (as usual) let the first shot ring a good 20 minutes before legal. For us, CPO was the first to mark. About 0712 his 280AI woke me from a lull. I was one draw over from him and he texted me a pic of the freak that walked up to within 35 yds of him. Double main beam, multi point drop time, bruiser. His first whitetail. John was also seeing deer where he was on the other side of CPO. After a couple of hours of I picked up and moved to the same draw as CPO.
We were sitting in a brushed in ground blind when another report sounds. That was John's 30 30. It dropped nice younger 4x4 out in the AG field.
Now I was a ready for some action. CPO caught some move meant out of the corner of his eye. I leaned over with Simo to get a look and saw a smaller body and the side I could see of the head was slick....I'm thinking "doe".....CPO tries to tell me it is a buck but I don't listen.....boom!! and Simo drops him at about 65yds with a shot to the neck. Yep, I said him, on the ground lay a squirrelly lil 3 point with nothing on one side. So, day one ends with 3 bucks down where we are (I had 1 buck tag and 2 foe tags).
Redman was on a different property and popped a nice doe later in the day. So by end of the day 4 deer hanging in the tree out back. We have a few days left to try for some does. Awfully good start to the trip. Oh, and we HAD to stop at White Castle to celebrate.
