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We have 50 acres of land on our family farm, the field is planted with timothy and alfalfa hay, our neighbor cuts the hay and bales it, we get first choice of the cuts (2 to 3 per season) for our horses
We've had the first cut of the season, so the field is nice and wide open, I went down to the pond to check for the snapping turtle, and to see if I could convince the coy-dog to go away
I strapped my Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt to my hip, and grabbed my SKS, deployed the bayo, and slung the SKS over my shoulder, and walked down to the pond...
I was joined by my two hunting buddies, Blue and Nemo, our domestic shorthair cats who followed me the 1/4 mile walk to the pond, as I started my walk around the pond, I saw some motion in my peripheral vision.....
roughly 250 yards away, a good sized whitetail deer doe was watching me with a quizzical expression, as I walked the border of the pond, the deer kept it's eyes trained on me at first, but then began to ignore me and go back to grazing in the freshly cut field....
.....yes, I did shoulder the rifle a couple times and line the sights up on the doe, just to see how it would react, it didn't react at all, totally ignored me.....
I then got curious, I wanted to see how close I could get to the deer before it got spooked, so I began to stalk it in plain sight, walking slowly towards it while it was grazing, stopping when it looked up, I cheated a little bit and walked towards it sideways for a while, keeping my shoulder to it, so when it looked at me it would think I was walking away from it.....
I did reasonably well stalking the deer, In fact, a couple times she took a few steps towards me, like she was curious as to what i was, I wasn't even wearing any camo, just a maroon T-shirt and blue jeans, I stood out against the green and brown grass like a sore thumb...
All told, I was able to get within 75 yards of it, and it didn't even react when I raised the rifle again, it would have been *so* easy if I was out hunting for deer, but no, I was hoping to find the coy-dog, but logic would say that if the deer were out and grazing, that the coy-dog would most likely not be around, or to put it another way, if the coy-dog was out, the deer would probably not be out....
The bullets in the SKS are meant for the coy-dog and the coy-dog alone, the deer are safe, and I think they know it, our land is posted no-tresspassing, and we don't allow hunters (other than family members) to hunt our land, it's easier to keep the venison fresh and unspoiled if it's still alive....
At around 75 yards, the cats noticed the deer and began stalking it themselves, it was quite amusing, these 10 pound domestic cats stalking a deer that was an order of magnitude larger than them....
after about 5 minutes or so of stalemating the doe at 75 yards, it got bored, and walked into the woodlot, just ambled in, ignoring the cats and I
No, the hunt was unsuccesful, but I still had fun, I didn't get the snapper or the coy, but I'm learning the finer points of stalking deer
We've had the first cut of the season, so the field is nice and wide open, I went down to the pond to check for the snapping turtle, and to see if I could convince the coy-dog to go away
I strapped my Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt to my hip, and grabbed my SKS, deployed the bayo, and slung the SKS over my shoulder, and walked down to the pond...
I was joined by my two hunting buddies, Blue and Nemo, our domestic shorthair cats who followed me the 1/4 mile walk to the pond, as I started my walk around the pond, I saw some motion in my peripheral vision.....
roughly 250 yards away, a good sized whitetail deer doe was watching me with a quizzical expression, as I walked the border of the pond, the deer kept it's eyes trained on me at first, but then began to ignore me and go back to grazing in the freshly cut field....
.....yes, I did shoulder the rifle a couple times and line the sights up on the doe, just to see how it would react, it didn't react at all, totally ignored me.....
I then got curious, I wanted to see how close I could get to the deer before it got spooked, so I began to stalk it in plain sight, walking slowly towards it while it was grazing, stopping when it looked up, I cheated a little bit and walked towards it sideways for a while, keeping my shoulder to it, so when it looked at me it would think I was walking away from it.....
I did reasonably well stalking the deer, In fact, a couple times she took a few steps towards me, like she was curious as to what i was, I wasn't even wearing any camo, just a maroon T-shirt and blue jeans, I stood out against the green and brown grass like a sore thumb...
All told, I was able to get within 75 yards of it, and it didn't even react when I raised the rifle again, it would have been *so* easy if I was out hunting for deer, but no, I was hoping to find the coy-dog, but logic would say that if the deer were out and grazing, that the coy-dog would most likely not be around, or to put it another way, if the coy-dog was out, the deer would probably not be out....
The bullets in the SKS are meant for the coy-dog and the coy-dog alone, the deer are safe, and I think they know it, our land is posted no-tresspassing, and we don't allow hunters (other than family members) to hunt our land, it's easier to keep the venison fresh and unspoiled if it's still alive....
At around 75 yards, the cats noticed the deer and began stalking it themselves, it was quite amusing, these 10 pound domestic cats stalking a deer that was an order of magnitude larger than them....
after about 5 minutes or so of stalemating the doe at 75 yards, it got bored, and walked into the woodlot, just ambled in, ignoring the cats and I
No, the hunt was unsuccesful, but I still had fun, I didn't get the snapper or the coy, but I'm learning the finer points of stalking deer
and was able to set down right behind the old apple tree, the right hand doe was easily visible, about 50 yards out, I wasn't able to see the left hand doe easily due to the apple tree, but it was about the same distance....
