Post by zeeriverrat on Dec 16, 2014 9:07:18 GMT -5
We have been travelling this fall so neither my wife or I have had a chance to hunt for deer on our 40 acres in the Ozarks. The late Muzzleloader season started on Saturday and ran thru Monday...so we had 3 days to hunt and try to put a bit of meat in the freezer. We got up to our camp early on Friday and got ready to hunt.....
Saturday morning I was in my favorite stand at daylight, my wife had decided to go up on to the top of the hill and hunt a food plot there. There is a tall ladder stand there that overlooks the food plot and the surrounding woods...it is a good spot!
The morning hunt was uneventful for both of us...not a deer in sight! That afternoon I decided to watch the food plot next to the camp...and Raye went back to the top of the hill again. At about 4:55 my hunting was interrupted by a loud KERPOW! I figured that Raye had knocked one over, so I gathered up my gear and got the truck and the dog and headed up to the top of the hill. When I got there, Raye told me that 4 deer had come into the food plot and she had picked out the biggest doe and took the shot.
At the shot the deer ran out of the food plot thru a small neck of woods, then crossed the fence into our neighbors pasture. She said she had watched the deer run and it just disappeared... She had marked the spot where she saw it go thru the fence. I let the dog loose and she immediately was on the track and went just the way the deer had gone...we looked for blood where it crossed the fence...and then Raye spotted the deer laying in the pasture about 60 yds from the fence...about that time the dog came up the hill right to the deer..and was waiting for us there. It was a good size doe...The rifle she shoots uses 240gr. Hornady XTP pistol bullets in a sabot...it did the job too...you can see the exit hole in this pic..
Fortunately we have a good relationship with our neighbor and the lads that lease the hunting on his property, so there was no problem with retrieving the deer from across the fence. A short drag and we got up into the truck...
When we got back to camp, I got it up on the front end loader and we gutted it and let it cool over night. We hunted for a couple hours the next morning with no luck....after breakfast we skinned the deer and got it chunked up and into a cooler on ice. In this pic you can see the entry wound on the deer. Raye made a good shot, took the top of the heart off and got the lungs on the way thru as well....that deer was not going very far in any case.
She was pretty happy with that deer!
We hunted that afternoon. I didn't see a thing, but Raye saw 6 deer and a flock of turkeys...she didn't shoot at the deer because she was saving her second doe tag for when we return for the 3 day rifle hunt after Christmas... Seems like Raye had all the luck on this trip, but that is OK....she will let me eat some of that venison!! In fact, the menu tonite is grilled tenderloins....
Zee
Saturday morning I was in my favorite stand at daylight, my wife had decided to go up on to the top of the hill and hunt a food plot there. There is a tall ladder stand there that overlooks the food plot and the surrounding woods...it is a good spot!
The morning hunt was uneventful for both of us...not a deer in sight! That afternoon I decided to watch the food plot next to the camp...and Raye went back to the top of the hill again. At about 4:55 my hunting was interrupted by a loud KERPOW! I figured that Raye had knocked one over, so I gathered up my gear and got the truck and the dog and headed up to the top of the hill. When I got there, Raye told me that 4 deer had come into the food plot and she had picked out the biggest doe and took the shot.
At the shot the deer ran out of the food plot thru a small neck of woods, then crossed the fence into our neighbors pasture. She said she had watched the deer run and it just disappeared... She had marked the spot where she saw it go thru the fence. I let the dog loose and she immediately was on the track and went just the way the deer had gone...we looked for blood where it crossed the fence...and then Raye spotted the deer laying in the pasture about 60 yds from the fence...about that time the dog came up the hill right to the deer..and was waiting for us there. It was a good size doe...The rifle she shoots uses 240gr. Hornady XTP pistol bullets in a sabot...it did the job too...you can see the exit hole in this pic..
Fortunately we have a good relationship with our neighbor and the lads that lease the hunting on his property, so there was no problem with retrieving the deer from across the fence. A short drag and we got up into the truck...
When we got back to camp, I got it up on the front end loader and we gutted it and let it cool over night. We hunted for a couple hours the next morning with no luck....after breakfast we skinned the deer and got it chunked up and into a cooler on ice. In this pic you can see the entry wound on the deer. Raye made a good shot, took the top of the heart off and got the lungs on the way thru as well....that deer was not going very far in any case.
She was pretty happy with that deer!
We hunted that afternoon. I didn't see a thing, but Raye saw 6 deer and a flock of turkeys...she didn't shoot at the deer because she was saving her second doe tag for when we return for the 3 day rifle hunt after Christmas... Seems like Raye had all the luck on this trip, but that is OK....she will let me eat some of that venison!! In fact, the menu tonite is grilled tenderloins....
Zee