brotherjack
11-07-2006, 11:09 PM
We woke up early one day last week, and found it colder than The Wife(tm) wanted to sit out in, but she didn't want to give up her planned hunting time, so we fired up the truck and went for a drive along some trails down south of here known to hold a very heavy concentration of deer. Saw virtually nothing on the main logging roads, but as soon as we got off onto the little side trails, there was gobs of deer to be seen. Mostly does, with a few little bucks thrown in here and there.
Couple hours in to it, after seeing countless deer - just nothing she wanted to shoot - we spied the nice little 4 point whitetail featured below. After a visual inspection through the binoculars, she decides that she'll take him, even though he is a bit smaller than she'd like. The weather is getting colder all the time, and she hates the cold, so the sooner the better she figures.
She had to chase him off into the bush for about 15 minutes to get a nice clean shot on him, but she did, and that was that. Some quick work later, we were on the way home with our deer. Here's a pic (and no, you're not imagining it, the antlers are significantly asymetrical):
http://xjack.org/hunting/wt2-06.jpg
Couple hours in to it, after seeing countless deer - just nothing she wanted to shoot - we spied the nice little 4 point whitetail featured below. After a visual inspection through the binoculars, she decides that she'll take him, even though he is a bit smaller than she'd like. The weather is getting colder all the time, and she hates the cold, so the sooner the better she figures.
She had to chase him off into the bush for about 15 minutes to get a nice clean shot on him, but she did, and that was that. Some quick work later, we were on the way home with our deer. Here's a pic (and no, you're not imagining it, the antlers are significantly asymetrical):
http://xjack.org/hunting/wt2-06.jpg