maddhatter82
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Arrived Saturday around noon got checked in unpacked, suited up and hit the woods down a spot had some pretty good sign and decided to set up on a bench overlooking the bottom of this holler. Sat from about two till dark nada.
Nephew and coworker also zip one of them was up on a saddle on top of a ridge. The other one was down on a point. so Sunday morning. We went into a different area. I'll set up on a utility cut over that. I could see down the holler and up to the next ridge longest shot. Probably would've been 350. Nephew went up on a field edge on one of the gravel roads about 2 miles off the main road. Coworker went out to the saddle and hunt there again cause there's pretty good sign. Again zip zilch. Came out around 10 got a bite to eat. Went back and started scouting. Heavy to try to find some fresh sign or at least spot a deer. Found some pretty good areas we thought. But again, nothing like at this point we hadn't even seen a deer driving in out walking in and jumped anything hadn't had anybody push anything and I hadn't even heard a shot. Nephew heard a shot and coworker said he heard a couple decided to pull up the report and it looked like there was four deer killed in two days so fast-forward to Monday we go back in and there might've been five maybe six vehicles in the place that I saw and I sit on a on a field edge on a pinch point watching some scrapes and a travel corridor around this Ridgeline. Set till noon and nothing again the younger fellows we're disheartened at this point, and we had all decided that the government had hired the Russians to come in and plant deer sign to make us think that there was deer in there lol. So with all of us having to work this morning, they left at noon coming back to Knoxville. I told them I was hunting till dark so I went up to another. Ridgeline found a bucks core area and thought OK OK this is gonna be it and went in set up. And it started pouring rain and I left my rain jacket in the truck because it was like 70° and I was sweating so I pulled up the radar and it looked like it was gonna rain for the next three hours according to the radar and the weather forecast. It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and I said no, I'm not gonna get soaked and then drive home so I got up walk back to the truck and headed out and by the time I've made it back to the main road in the management area and it stopped raining, so I decided I'm just gonna go find one of these roadside fields and sit on the edge of it where I can watch the field in the tree line in the woods and be close to the truck so if it started raining again, I wouldn't be soaked. Pull up to the field. Got my pack on got everything ready to go grab the gun start walking in and boom. There's a dose in there looking at me 130 yards in the field so a shot and it stood there.
so I shot again this time it ran off so I thought good there we go least we got something out of this Hunt. This is where it gets interesting I go to where the deer was standing can't find blood, so I start searching the edge of the woods where I saw it go in found blood bingo. So start trailing the blood into the woods and 50 yards in. I see the deer about 75 yards ahead of me laying down and it looks like it might be dead so I decided I was gonna sit there and watch it for a minute make sure that it was dead Before I walked up on it cause a total of 10 minutes. It passed since I shot it and there was still daylight so I was gonna try to get it out and get a buck. I know more than take two steps to sit down on a log that's laying there and this deer jumps up on its hind legs and runs through the forest like a human, all the while blood is spraying out of its shoulders. It made it about 5 yards and then fell down so me thinking you know something is not right. I shoot it again. It jumps up and does the same thing. It runs off like a person on its back leg standing up carrying its front feet and went another 10 yards Did a backflip and walled around and I thought OK it's it's down now so I take a step so I can see it and it's looking at me and decides to takeoff again this time. It's behind some thick stuff. I can't really see to get a shot and every time I try to get a little closer it would jump up again. I probably should've just backed out, but I felt bad because I could tell this there was in some pain so I wanted to do the right thing and put it out of its misery. So I side step get over to where I can get a shot shoot it again. Guess what? This demon deer decides that it's gonna get up and run like a damn kangaroo this time for about 40 yards and then it tripped over a log it was turned around facing me so I thought oh zombies oh, you gotta shoot them in the head! So at 40 yards Deer laying still I decided to take the headshot. This is where it all starts to make sense, headshot hits about mid neck about 12 inches lower than point of aim at 40 yards. (I had just mounted and sighted the scope at100 yards 2 weeks ago) Finally this deer is down and not getting up and I can start the drag. And I realize I've chased this thing about a half a mile into the woods and I have no idea which direction I've came in so I got my bearings looked at the map and started dragon about 3/4 a mile later I'm back at the truck and field dressing. Turns out it was not a doe, instead just a little button.
Moral of the story. after traveling with rifles verify zero again and if something feels off, it probably is. Cheatham doesn't have any deer in it. Y'all middle Tennessee boys done kill them all lol. 3.5/10 would not recommend
Nephew and coworker also zip one of them was up on a saddle on top of a ridge. The other one was down on a point. so Sunday morning. We went into a different area. I'll set up on a utility cut over that. I could see down the holler and up to the next ridge longest shot. Probably would've been 350. Nephew went up on a field edge on one of the gravel roads about 2 miles off the main road. Coworker went out to the saddle and hunt there again cause there's pretty good sign. Again zip zilch. Came out around 10 got a bite to eat. Went back and started scouting. Heavy to try to find some fresh sign or at least spot a deer. Found some pretty good areas we thought. But again, nothing like at this point we hadn't even seen a deer driving in out walking in and jumped anything hadn't had anybody push anything and I hadn't even heard a shot. Nephew heard a shot and coworker said he heard a couple decided to pull up the report and it looked like there was four deer killed in two days so fast-forward to Monday we go back in and there might've been five maybe six vehicles in the place that I saw and I sit on a on a field edge on a pinch point watching some scrapes and a travel corridor around this Ridgeline. Set till noon and nothing again the younger fellows we're disheartened at this point, and we had all decided that the government had hired the Russians to come in and plant deer sign to make us think that there was deer in there lol. So with all of us having to work this morning, they left at noon coming back to Knoxville. I told them I was hunting till dark so I went up to another. Ridgeline found a bucks core area and thought OK OK this is gonna be it and went in set up. And it started pouring rain and I left my rain jacket in the truck because it was like 70° and I was sweating so I pulled up the radar and it looked like it was gonna rain for the next three hours according to the radar and the weather forecast. It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and I said no, I'm not gonna get soaked and then drive home so I got up walk back to the truck and headed out and by the time I've made it back to the main road in the management area and it stopped raining, so I decided I'm just gonna go find one of these roadside fields and sit on the edge of it where I can watch the field in the tree line in the woods and be close to the truck so if it started raining again, I wouldn't be soaked. Pull up to the field. Got my pack on got everything ready to go grab the gun start walking in and boom. There's a dose in there looking at me 130 yards in the field so a shot and it stood there.
so I shot again this time it ran off so I thought good there we go least we got something out of this Hunt. This is where it gets interesting I go to where the deer was standing can't find blood, so I start searching the edge of the woods where I saw it go in found blood bingo. So start trailing the blood into the woods and 50 yards in. I see the deer about 75 yards ahead of me laying down and it looks like it might be dead so I decided I was gonna sit there and watch it for a minute make sure that it was dead Before I walked up on it cause a total of 10 minutes. It passed since I shot it and there was still daylight so I was gonna try to get it out and get a buck. I know more than take two steps to sit down on a log that's laying there and this deer jumps up on its hind legs and runs through the forest like a human, all the while blood is spraying out of its shoulders. It made it about 5 yards and then fell down so me thinking you know something is not right. I shoot it again. It jumps up and does the same thing. It runs off like a person on its back leg standing up carrying its front feet and went another 10 yards Did a backflip and walled around and I thought OK it's it's down now so I take a step so I can see it and it's looking at me and decides to takeoff again this time. It's behind some thick stuff. I can't really see to get a shot and every time I try to get a little closer it would jump up again. I probably should've just backed out, but I felt bad because I could tell this there was in some pain so I wanted to do the right thing and put it out of its misery. So I side step get over to where I can get a shot shoot it again. Guess what? This demon deer decides that it's gonna get up and run like a damn kangaroo this time for about 40 yards and then it tripped over a log it was turned around facing me so I thought oh zombies oh, you gotta shoot them in the head! So at 40 yards Deer laying still I decided to take the headshot. This is where it all starts to make sense, headshot hits about mid neck about 12 inches lower than point of aim at 40 yards. (I had just mounted and sighted the scope at100 yards 2 weeks ago) Finally this deer is down and not getting up and I can start the drag. And I realize I've chased this thing about a half a mile into the woods and I have no idea which direction I've came in so I got my bearings looked at the map and started dragon about 3/4 a mile later I'm back at the truck and field dressing. Turns out it was not a doe, instead just a little button. Moral of the story. after traveling with rifles verify zero again and if something feels off, it probably is. Cheatham doesn't have any deer in it. Y'all middle Tennessee boys done kill them all lol. 3.5/10 would not recommend
