snaildarter
Well-Known Member
I saw this deer last Thursday (9/29/16) morning at about 7:45am, but he was 75 yards away and never gave me a shot. So I climbed down around 11 and moved my stand about 45 yards up the ridge and cut a shooting lane where I thought he would come from. Friday I got in my stand while it was still dark. About 7:30 I hear deer coming, but from the opposite direction I expected. It was a doe and her two fawns, which I had also seen the day before. They walked right under my stand and fed on maple leaves from the shooting lane I'd cut the day before. They stayed there eating for a good 10 to 15 minutes. If they went any further I'm positive they would have winded me since the wind was in the exact opposite direction it was the morning before. I was watching the doe and then I heard the crack of a twig and there he was 20 yards in front of me. He was in a thick area that I did not cut a shooting lane. D%mn I thought I'm not going to get a shot. Slowly he fed up the ridge and I had one hole in between two small maples that if he stepped into I'd have a shot. I drew and he stepped in the hole and it was all over in about 5 minutes. Slight quartering away shot through both lungs. I saw him crash. This deer is by no means a monster, but it came off my small piece of land with my bow. It is by far the largest bodied deer I've seen on my place and he was not very old (maybe 3.5). I was ecstatic.
