well was sitting on the side of a hill over looking a ravine plum full of awesome deer bedding areas , got there bout 6 am , got set up and waited for day light , bout 15 minutes till shooting time the people i had been waiting for showed up , the amish , these guys arent afraid to drive any kind of thicket , and this spot was hells thicket, well shooting time starts and so did the drive. they get about a half hour into the drive and a nice 8 point jumps out inbetween the drivers and standers and high tails it up over the hill , some how he ascaped with out getting hit, so i sit back and watch the drive from my pearch , then i happen to look look over towards my buddy and above him on the hill is the 8 point , my buddy doesnt see him so i whistle at him and point , my buddy cant see the deer cause brush is in his line of sight , so he runs up the hill trying to get a good position on this buck , the buck sees him and bolts along the hill top kinda angled downwards , i realize if the buck keeps his course he will run with in 50 yards of me so i sit stone still and draw my gun up , i follow him down the hill , he is way passed my buddy and closing in on me fast , 90 yards
80 yards
70 yards
he is startingto slow
60 yards
50 yards
i yell at him and he stops dead in his tracks 40 yards
my bead is dead on his chest , my heart is beating so hard i think it might jump out my chest
he turns to look back at my buddy , theres my shot completely broadside , i slowly squeez the trigger
booooooom
the mossberg kicks me in the shoulder , and thats when i realize
i missed the damn buck from forty yards standing still , no excuse just a clean miss i might of jerked or flinched or whatever but it was an all out miss
well we sitthere for two hours and dont see another deer , the amish keep driving away from us and no one else was driving that area so we packed up an hit my inlaws property , im sitting in my stand winds blowing , im singing the tune from wizard of oz cause for some stupid reason it was stuck in my head, i look over in the briar thicket and see a small doe , she tries to get up and falls over she does this for almost 30 minutes , i grab the binos to take a closer look and i see she has been shot , normally i wouldnt shoot a deer this small , but i could tell she was in pain , some one had gut shot her by her back leg, i have three antlerless tags so i decide to use one on her , she is about 60 yards quartering away from me and i let one fly she drops right in her tracks , it hit a lil back but came out right where i wanted it to right behind the shoulder on opposite sidetook out the heart and a lung , so i did my mercy kill for the year and got me some nice tender meat for jerky
80 yards
70 yards
he is startingto slow
60 yards
50 yards
i yell at him and he stops dead in his tracks 40 yards
my bead is dead on his chest , my heart is beating so hard i think it might jump out my chest
he turns to look back at my buddy , theres my shot completely broadside , i slowly squeez the trigger
booooooom
the mossberg kicks me in the shoulder , and thats when i realize
i missed the damn buck from forty yards standing still , no excuse just a clean miss i might of jerked or flinched or whatever but it was an all out miss
well we sitthere for two hours and dont see another deer , the amish keep driving away from us and no one else was driving that area so we packed up an hit my inlaws property , im sitting in my stand winds blowing , im singing the tune from wizard of oz cause for some stupid reason it was stuck in my head, i look over in the briar thicket and see a small doe , she tries to get up and falls over she does this for almost 30 minutes , i grab the binos to take a closer look and i see she has been shot , normally i wouldnt shoot a deer this small , but i could tell she was in pain , some one had gut shot her by her back leg, i have three antlerless tags so i decide to use one on her , she is about 60 yards quartering away from me and i let one fly she drops right in her tracks , it hit a lil back but came out right where i wanted it to right behind the shoulder on opposite sidetook out the heart and a lung , so i did my mercy kill for the year and got me some nice tender meat for jerky
