sapper
10-07-2013, 02:05 PM
Another member posted a story of his very impressive whitetail buck (Congrats) and it reminded me of how on Saturday I was thinking about how many deer we drive by on our way to an area we are sure is going to produce.
It's amazing what can be just a few feet off the road. On Saturday we were out in region 8. We were heading from one area to another to do some hiking around and came across some cows on the road. My buddy slowed down and I looked over to the side of the road where a few other cows were feeding in the ditch and about 10 feet back I see some telltale ears sticking up. A moment later, up pop some antlers too. I baled out of the truck but by that point they had hightailed it out of there. We spent another 2 hours messing with this group, finding them again in a big clearcut, trying to pick out the 2by2 in the pack, waiting for him to move away from the does, having them play the rotating cup game, and then finally losing them after we tried to flank them. Bottom line though, we would have driven them if not for the cows.
About 2 hours later though, frustrated and thinking we were done for the day and with about 40 minutes of legal light left, we are driving back to our trailer and I see the white of a deer's butt heading into the trees off the road. We stop, slowly pull ahead and realize it is another buck. I bale out and now have my first buck at the butcher's. Nothing impressive in the headgear department and no pix (sorry, we were working to get done before total darkness engulfed us) but it is a nice meat buck and the start of what is now my most successful season: buck down on the first day I get out.
PS: for all the naysayers who are going to say: "This thread is useless without pix" I'll reread your comments in a few weeks with my deer pepperoni sticks, landjaeger, etc. in hand. ;-)
It's amazing what can be just a few feet off the road. On Saturday we were out in region 8. We were heading from one area to another to do some hiking around and came across some cows on the road. My buddy slowed down and I looked over to the side of the road where a few other cows were feeding in the ditch and about 10 feet back I see some telltale ears sticking up. A moment later, up pop some antlers too. I baled out of the truck but by that point they had hightailed it out of there. We spent another 2 hours messing with this group, finding them again in a big clearcut, trying to pick out the 2by2 in the pack, waiting for him to move away from the does, having them play the rotating cup game, and then finally losing them after we tried to flank them. Bottom line though, we would have driven them if not for the cows.
About 2 hours later though, frustrated and thinking we were done for the day and with about 40 minutes of legal light left, we are driving back to our trailer and I see the white of a deer's butt heading into the trees off the road. We stop, slowly pull ahead and realize it is another buck. I bale out and now have my first buck at the butcher's. Nothing impressive in the headgear department and no pix (sorry, we were working to get done before total darkness engulfed us) but it is a nice meat buck and the start of what is now my most successful season: buck down on the first day I get out.
PS: for all the naysayers who are going to say: "This thread is useless without pix" I'll reread your comments in a few weeks with my deer pepperoni sticks, landjaeger, etc. in hand. ;-)