fester's first ever deer!

[Thunderstix]

Here is festers spike blacktail from September 23, 2005. It may not be huge, but who cares? It was hard earned and his first of many to come. I will let him tell the story. In the pic is fester, me (I'm the handsome one), and his wife.

Here is fester with the spiker on my Bull Pac.

[ZENYO]

Nice! Congrats Fester!

[Seeadler]

looks like any buck might be well earned in that cover.

[NEEHAMA]

i want to eat that deer!! where was this? what island?

[Sikanni Stalker]

Right on! That's a good start.

[BCHunter]

congrats on the deer...lets hear the story

[Seabass]

Way to go Fester. You've gotten more than me this year!!!

[Freshtracks]

Congrats on a nice filet o' spike. Good to get some meat in the freezer.

[fester]

Thanks Guys
As usual you spend a day with Mike in the woods and you will have a story to tell and you might even learn something!
We launched the boat and ran in the dark tied up and started hunting in a new place not far from town. We saw lots of sign popped up onto a little ridge of an old logged out area and Mike see's this little spiker. I confirm he is a buck and popped him. He ran into the bush. It sounded like a tank so we thought there was two. We gave him a few minutes and went to look for him and could not find any blood so the three of us started rummaging around in the bush but its thick and can't find anything. I went back to where he was standing and started to really concentrate on the fresh tracks and found fresh scat and out comes my wife saying fresh blood right here, she finds him a few metres past I went back to grab our packs and Mike gets there before me and tries to convince me its a doe, you can't take him anywhere. It wasn't a good shot and I will be spending more time at the range I gut shot him, off hand, pack on, while standing. There is meat in the freezer and he is yummy.
Many thanks to my hunting buddy Mike!!!!

[Marc]

I'm glad to hear you recovered your deer even after a bad shot. It hapens to the best of us. Sometimes they take a step forward just as we're pulling the trigger. Range time can't hurt for sure. Congrats on your first buck and some meat in the freezer.

Marc.