01-05-2008, 01:34 PM
At the start of reading your story it went just like our late season hunt .
Bill and I left his house after calling his hunting buddys and hit a bean feild , it was my first time hunting deer on a farm .
We crossed the feild covered in that almost cement like snow and found his buddys delapidated plywood blind . Bill took the left flank of the blind with the seetless kitchen chair , I had the right flank with the plastic lawn chair .
After tring to sit and wait for sunrise a bit I could tell bill wasen't to comfortable in his spot so I told him I was going over to the other side of the woodline on the property . I found a nice cottonwood to lean up against and used a rusty bale of barbed wire as a bit of cover from deer crossing the woods . 10 minutes later I could hear something walking thru , almost sounded like another hunter it was so loud .
Bang ! The noise stopped , I waited a couple minutes and still nothing , not a peep from anything , anywhere .
I got up and walked back over to the blind and said "well"?
Bill as calm as could be said ,"I got one ".
" I shot it and it just dropped " pointing his finger just about over to where I was stationed at . I guess you could say bills not the excitable type , a far different person fom last years hunt when he would shoot in the sky then level off at the deer , lol !
We walked over and yes about six yards from where I was sitting lay a buck that had lost it's sheds . Bill had taken his first deer ever with a head-on shot to the neck , he lost a good roast but hey , at least he got a deer so his wife will let him go hunting with the boys again next year .
I showed him how to feild dress the buck , what to do , what not to do and what to look for My camera had new batterys from wal-mart in it , so we wern't able to take pics or a vid of how to feilddress a deer , the batterys were already dead out of the package .
Bill used his cell phone to snap a pic ,I took one after we took the buck to the shed to hang .
Bill and his buddy had hunted muzzle and part of late season together and had an agreement to share the meat with each other if one got one and the other didn't , those guys kept true to their word too . Both of them are young dads , the food they harvested will not go to waste .
We (all three of us ) hunted the golf course the following two days Bill lad a bit of luck on the evening hunt but the deer crossed over onto another private property where we were not able to retrive his would be second deer .
I saw a 0 x 4 point but being late antlerless season only , I had to watch it walk on by .
I had been listing to the weather reports and was a little more than concerned about the aproaching storm , I cut the hunt short for myself and headed back home , driving home during a blizzard is not something I want to do again , the last time was back in 98 , it was no picnic thats for shure .
Anyway , looks like it's another 10 months of beef for me , but steelhead season is just around the corner so I can't complain any .
Pics are of the dressed out deer and one from the golfcourse Billys buddy is in the center of the pic .
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Bill and I left his house after calling his hunting buddys and hit a bean feild , it was my first time hunting deer on a farm .
We crossed the feild covered in that almost cement like snow and found his buddys delapidated plywood blind . Bill took the left flank of the blind with the seetless kitchen chair , I had the right flank with the plastic lawn chair .
After tring to sit and wait for sunrise a bit I could tell bill wasen't to comfortable in his spot so I told him I was going over to the other side of the woodline on the property . I found a nice cottonwood to lean up against and used a rusty bale of barbed wire as a bit of cover from deer crossing the woods . 10 minutes later I could hear something walking thru , almost sounded like another hunter it was so loud .
Bang ! The noise stopped , I waited a couple minutes and still nothing , not a peep from anything , anywhere .
I got up and walked back over to the blind and said "well"?
Bill as calm as could be said ,"I got one ".
" I shot it and it just dropped " pointing his finger just about over to where I was stationed at . I guess you could say bills not the excitable type , a far different person fom last years hunt when he would shoot in the sky then level off at the deer , lol !
We walked over and yes about six yards from where I was sitting lay a buck that had lost it's sheds . Bill had taken his first deer ever with a head-on shot to the neck , he lost a good roast but hey , at least he got a deer so his wife will let him go hunting with the boys again next year .
I showed him how to feild dress the buck , what to do , what not to do and what to look for My camera had new batterys from wal-mart in it , so we wern't able to take pics or a vid of how to feilddress a deer , the batterys were already dead out of the package .
Bill used his cell phone to snap a pic ,I took one after we took the buck to the shed to hang .
Bill and his buddy had hunted muzzle and part of late season together and had an agreement to share the meat with each other if one got one and the other didn't , those guys kept true to their word too . Both of them are young dads , the food they harvested will not go to waste .
We (all three of us ) hunted the golf course the following two days Bill lad a bit of luck on the evening hunt but the deer crossed over onto another private property where we were not able to retrive his would be second deer .
I saw a 0 x 4 point but being late antlerless season only , I had to watch it walk on by .
I had been listing to the weather reports and was a little more than concerned about the aproaching storm , I cut the hunt short for myself and headed back home , driving home during a blizzard is not something I want to do again , the last time was back in 98 , it was no picnic thats for shure .
Anyway , looks like it's another 10 months of beef for me , but steelhead season is just around the corner so I can't complain any .
Pics are of the dressed out deer and one from the golfcourse Billys buddy is in the center of the pic .
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