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| [Ben]: | Hunting stories | Discuss This [3 comments so far] View Comments | Yesterday, Nate and I each killed a deer - the first year we both filled our tags.
Here is his:
He can edit this post to tell his story below.
There I was...isn't that how all these start out? Anyway Ben and I got into the woods nice and early. The day was looking really good when before legal shooting light I had a deer standing within 5 yards of me. It was so dark that I couldn't even tell if it was buck or a doe. The only thing that kept going through my mind was all those videos you see of the deer attacking the hunter. I can tell you that I had my S&W 629 in my hands and I was ready to go if it decided to go for it. I was really hoping it would stick around for another 20 min for legal shooting light and I would have gotten a deer with a handgun. Unfortunately, the deer moved off well before it got light enough to see.
Shortly before 9am Ben wussed out and decided he would rather go into work than continue hunting. I however manned up and stayed in the woods. Good thing too, because about 30min later I noticed a doe working her way toward me. Once she was clear of any obstructions she was about 20 yards away and I was able to make a good shot. She ran about 50 yards and I was able to track her with no problems. Then I just had to wait for Ben to come back so he could help me drag it out of the woods, and oh yeah get the BIGGEST DEER EVER! |
After Nate shot his, he called me to help drag it out from the back of his parents' property. I had all my hunting stuff with me so I suited up and grabbed my shotgun. On our way out, Nate spotted another deer and I shot it. It dropped - as Nate said - "like it was pole-axed".
I could hardly believe that it went down so fast and with an incredulous look whispered to Nate "Did it just fall there?" We walked up and I used Nate's S&W 629 to finish it off.
We never found where my 12 gauge slug hit, but as fast as it dropped we figure it was a spine hit somewhere. It was odd that we couldn't find the hit. |
| 2010-11-25
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