MCgunner
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Got a 7 point very early this morning. It was just getting light, but I could tell he was a legal shooter, spread just outside his ears, barely 13", though. 
It really was more like 12.9", but hey, I couldn't jump down out of the tree and measure him, first. In the dim light, I thought it might be that big 8 pointer I've been seeing on the camera, but no, he's still the king of the woods, I reckon. Range was something like 20 feet DOWN out of my stand. Shot him through both lungs, though, really good placement if I do say so myself. He ran off down the fence and I heard him stop and collapse back toward the back fence. Man, I must say, broadheads leave a LOT of blood! Never seen something bleed that much.
Soaking him on ice. He had a strong rut smell, so he needs to be bled out in the cooler for a few days or he'll be kinda rank. This is the last week of bow season here. Doe are legal in bow season, but I ain't seen one damned doe! I came in and drank some coffee for about 45 minutes, then went out to find him. When I got back there, damned if I didn't jump about 4 deer. They're ruttin' big time, didn't really see what was buck or not, just the white tails bounding off into the woods.
Anyway, now I'm pooped. I gutted him, drug him a ways, about 100 yards, on my plastic sheet. Said screw it and went and got my little 200cc dirt bike and drug him out with that. It's muddy back there and the hogs have rutted up the place, but nothing stops that little dirt bike.
My KLR650 has a bad front tube and I haven't bought a new one, yet, but its a bit of a handful in this sort of mud. We got over 9" of rain Friday and Saturday and the place is a mud pit.
Anyway, the obligatory picture. Duck season opens the 31st and I'm going to be concentrating on birds, now, but I'll still go back and sit in my box blind with my rifle during gun season. Neighbor got a doe permit said they'd give me, so I might pop a doe this year.
It really was more like 12.9", but hey, I couldn't jump down out of the tree and measure him, first. In the dim light, I thought it might be that big 8 pointer I've been seeing on the camera, but no, he's still the king of the woods, I reckon. Range was something like 20 feet DOWN out of my stand. Shot him through both lungs, though, really good placement if I do say so myself. He ran off down the fence and I heard him stop and collapse back toward the back fence. Man, I must say, broadheads leave a LOT of blood! Never seen something bleed that much.Soaking him on ice. He had a strong rut smell, so he needs to be bled out in the cooler for a few days or he'll be kinda rank. This is the last week of bow season here. Doe are legal in bow season, but I ain't seen one damned doe! I came in and drank some coffee for about 45 minutes, then went out to find him. When I got back there, damned if I didn't jump about 4 deer. They're ruttin' big time, didn't really see what was buck or not, just the white tails bounding off into the woods.
Anyway, now I'm pooped. I gutted him, drug him a ways, about 100 yards, on my plastic sheet. Said screw it and went and got my little 200cc dirt bike and drug him out with that. It's muddy back there and the hogs have rutted up the place, but nothing stops that little dirt bike.
My KLR650 has a bad front tube and I haven't bought a new one, yet, but its a bit of a handful in this sort of mud. We got over 9" of rain Friday and Saturday and the place is a mud pit.Anyway, the obligatory picture. Duck season opens the 31st and I'm going to be concentrating on birds, now, but I'll still go back and sit in my box blind with my rifle during gun season. Neighbor got a doe permit said they'd give me, so I might pop a doe this year.
