The storey is well..
Theirs a couple of things I should say first.
1 the contest I'm in on AT offers no money, reward or other form of gain
other than having fellow bowhunters share in the experiance.
I felt no pressure to simply kill any deer just to add to the points total.
AT is not a friendly place to be, but I found some good people who are there.
2 I've shot so many deer and turkey over the years that I know better on
how to tell just how big a deer is (look at the length of the tail to the hocks).
3 I couldn't post on AT what I posted above because, I didn't want to belittle
someone's first deer with a bow, no matter how small.
For some reason I could post it here, and no-one seems offended.
Thank you, that was not my intent.
4 I live in the state of VA in the US, it's divided from north to south on the
route 29 highway. East of route 29 dogs are allowed to hunt deer, on the
west side of route 29 they are not.
I live on the east side, it's also leagle to "train dogs" from Jan. - Nov 1st.
(first day of muzzel loader season) then no dogs until Dec 1st (rifle shotgun)
Makes bowhunting in Oct. very challenging.
I don't want to change things the way they are down here never did, I just
try to work with these people as best I can.
I don't "use" the dogs for bowhunting, I don't put out feeders for deer or use
scents or plant food plots. This is the first time I used my trail cam since I
bought it 3 years ago for deer. It's used mostly to watch the chicken coop.
I woke up a bit late this morning, drove back down to about 1/4 mile of the
river, parked the truck first thing I heard was like 4 hounds howling away.
As I walked from my truck down toward the river 2 of the dogs came up
out of the valley and I waved them off.
All went silent.
So I contineued on and set up with my climbling stand at the river bottom
from 8:00am to 11:00am and saw and heard nothing.
Came home, ate a venisen burger, took some practice shots at the target
then took the climber out back past the pasture about 1500 feet picked
out a pine and took a stand. It was the same tree I shot the button buck
from but this doe is not of the same heard.
:-) I don't know where she came from,
I don't know where she's been.
I really don't think it matters much,
She's in the frig and I can't wait to do it again.
It's was a good, fast clean kill.
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