well i made it back and heres the story.we left thursday night instead of friday and am i ever glad.i put my son back in the stand where he saw a doe before does were legal and he wanted to try to get it.i went to a stand nearby where several deer had been seen.i sat until 9:30 and at that point i was cold and ready to get out of the stand.( weather wasnt that bad i just left my jacket)i had just decided i would wait until 10 when a buck walked out and headed straight for me. i could see the horns but at the angle he was at i thought he was a spike. he walked about 20 feet and gave me a slight quartering shot.gun go boom deer fall down.perfect neck shot and he dropped in his tracks thats when i could see the other antlers.this buck was 145 pounds
when i got back to camp another guy from florida was skinning a doe he got on the 6 point side.i didnt get a picture of it but it was about 90 pounds. i was really happy for him because he has been up every weekend and hunted hard and seen very few deer. friday evening when we came in another guy had a 5 point that i also didnt get a pic of but it was 155 pounds.
saturday began my first ever dog drive.we surrounded a block and put in the dogs. the dogs were in about 5 minutes and i heard a shot.10 minutes later another 2 shots from the same direction.when they picked us up a 15 year old kid had killed a spike AND a doe on the same drive.the picture isnt very clear but the spike is on the left.110 pounds and 87 pounds
the next drive scored a miss on a big buck and a very small spike. the deer took 3 shots and it had 3 busted legs and a broken antler, they werent much anyway,we couldnt get the deer out by hand because he was so busted up.the club president went to get a four wheeler but i guess he changed his mind because this is how he came back.
we had one more drive that ended with some tired dogs and a deer hit but not hard enough to kill him before he got off our property.we cut up all the deer and drew numbers for peices, i ended up with 2 backstraps, inner loins off of the buck and a shoulder.that was fun, alot of deer were killed quickly,but it is more enjoyable to hunt on a stand to me.we went out saturday evening but no one got anyhing else, so we spent the night cooking, drinking and telling lies like every other deer camp in america. oh i almost forgot,another 15 year old killed his first deer a week ago and his dad didnt fix him up he said it was better if his friends do it so here he is, notice his ball necklace.
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