Good luck, be careful, and stay warm. I hope you get one!
Thank you!
I am a wreck.
What may be the biggest buck I've seen in a half century gave me a show.
I all but shot him.....Just couldn't get the precise desired crosshair placement. A foot closer to me and the grass would have allowed seeing what I needed to. No regrets! Well , I wonder if I had mowed that area like I have the past years , if he would have used the area still...)
Then later a doe came out on the other side of the area I watch , and posed seductively. I practiced aiming instead of shooting her. Less shaky than with the earlier buck , for some reason....
She got to studying the jungle near her and scurried off. (She'd come off a major deer highway of sorts through heavy cover. Not that there are many deer , but they like that edge back in there to travel through.)
I was ready for a fawn, or a buck ,or "that" big buck to pop out. Other doe should have joined her already. But were still a possibility.
A little shaver four point buck did instead. But , the antler point restriction is off for the disabled hunt. And I don't have a four point in the collection. Plus , his antlers look like a European roe deer or something...
I practiced aiming again. Shot placement.. I don't need the practice really but do need to control shaking on legal targets sometimes. An adrenalin thing till calming down. A human needs to get excited about something sometimes to keep alive, l.o.l.. But control needs to be in there too..
He checked out where I put some scent last week. Then be-bopped up to around thirty yards from me to pose , seductively too...
Left him alone. He wandered off towards the lane the bigger buck was beyond the end of earlier. (And where I checked out antler rubs on the alders last week) .
Another deer was in the shooting lane. Too dark to be sure it was the earlier doe.
A great evenings hunt. Clean hands. No hard work following a kill.
Just a busy mind now...
My trend has gotten to being a watcher out there in recent years more than anything. Not a crime.
A deer might come home eventually. But I'll be alright if one don't.
Do like some venison meat on reserve come winter. A long standing tradition in my youth. But , have twenty bucks to buy some beef today too...
