TPB
11-26-2010, 09:49 PM
Well i went out after school with a buddy and his dad, the deal was if we seen a 3 point or greater it was theirs but if we seen anything smaller it was mine. We drove to our spot and went for a little hike following a game trail to see if we could spot anything. It was painful as we didn't even see a squirrel for over 3 hours and finally decided to pull the plug so we walked back to the truck with a hour of daylight to spare. We came to the fork in the road to go home and decided to go the long way out which payed off.
During the way in we seen a road sign at 300 yards or so and it looked like deer with the snow and what not it obviously wasn`t so we continued. So when we were leaving to go home we came up to a straight stretch with another of these ``roadsigns`` which we thought we better check out. It was a single deer eating a shrub with a bush for a backdrop so with 500 yards between us we couldn't tell if it had some headgear, we slowly crept up to around 300 yards and still couldn't see with that damn shrub. When we got to 150 yards and it started to run i was getting a little worried, but it stopped broadside in the middle of the road and with a quick check off the binos i realized it was a spike. I put one shot of my .270 into its lungs which caused it to spin around but it regained its feet and continued to run, the blood was easy to see in the snow and 20 yards we found it piled up in a clearing.
Ill work on pictures but its nothing spectacular as its a 1x.5 :D, the one side is a 9 inch spike and the other side is a 4 inch nub.
During the way in we seen a road sign at 300 yards or so and it looked like deer with the snow and what not it obviously wasn`t so we continued. So when we were leaving to go home we came up to a straight stretch with another of these ``roadsigns`` which we thought we better check out. It was a single deer eating a shrub with a bush for a backdrop so with 500 yards between us we couldn't tell if it had some headgear, we slowly crept up to around 300 yards and still couldn't see with that damn shrub. When we got to 150 yards and it started to run i was getting a little worried, but it stopped broadside in the middle of the road and with a quick check off the binos i realized it was a spike. I put one shot of my .270 into its lungs which caused it to spin around but it regained its feet and continued to run, the blood was easy to see in the snow and 20 yards we found it piled up in a clearing.
Ill work on pictures but its nothing spectacular as its a 1x.5 :D, the one side is a 9 inch spike and the other side is a 4 inch nub.