Rather humbling to see all the great deer posted by Hunttalkers. I once again found myself scratching for local whitetail opportunity..yep, Montana isn't entirely the holy grail on public land. Private locked up tight.
Back hunting a small bma which gets alot of traffic, deer and bird hunting. The neighbors get to whacking deer with rifles about now which further increases deer paranoia. I spent 4-5 evenings in my hidey spot, below zero each time and mostly calm with favorable light wind direction. Every night passing on does, waiting for some buck action. Good natural blind, I had deer at 15' on occasion. Small bucks filtering through . Saturday night, with all the surrounding shooting, the bucks wouldn't budge from the brush until the final couple of minutes. Then three jumped the fence on to the bma. Shot this cutey at 50 yards with my trusty .50 cal inline. Half mile drag, which had me huffing since I'm guessing the deer weighed as much as I do.
To spice things up, I decided I needed a little celebratory whiskey. My only recourse was to enter Teasers, with the look of a guy who recently gutted a deer. With a wife that teaches at the local high school, and a truck familiar to many, I wondered if this was wise...small town gossip. The cover of darkness.
Jeez, naked women on the bar side made it an interesting in and out.

So far no fallout, though I confessed to my wife just to cover my azz.
