Post by Greenedog on Dec 4, 2012 22:18:03 GMT -5
...on his 2012 buck. When I got home Saturday night from work he was setting in my chair all bummed out looking. I asked what his problem was and he told me he had shot at a buck right at dark, but couldn't find a speck of blood. He had been setting on the ground watching a picked corn field and right at last shooting light a deer walked out. He could see horns and a big body, so he put the cross hairs behind the shoulder and pulled the trigger. He thought he heard it crash, but after going home and getting a good light and the 4-wheeler, he went back and found no blood at all. He showed me on google earth where he had been setting and the direction the deer ran. I was very familiar with this little finger of woods and I pointed at a spot on the map between a pond and some brush and said "Your bucks gonna be right there." 
We took the 4-wheeler back there and low and behold; the buck was laying right where I said! (Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.) 
Chase couldn't believe it was laying there. It was a good shot, but it didn't bleed a drop until about 5 yards before it dropped. (Only went about a 100 yards.) I was just glad it wasn't a long track job because I had to get up at 4:30am Sunday for an OT day. 
Ugly ol' 5 point scrub buck, but I don't think Chase could have been happier when we found it.
We worried about the heat that night, Chase gutted it and then packed it with a couple frozen gallon jugs to cool it down and luckily one of our neighbors who processes deer and has a walkin cooler was still up and Chase was able to take it in that night. (Thank you online check-in!)
We took the 4-wheeler back there and low and behold; the buck was laying right where I said! (Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.) 
Chase couldn't believe it was laying there. It was a good shot, but it didn't bleed a drop until about 5 yards before it dropped. (Only went about a 100 yards.) I was just glad it wasn't a long track job because I had to get up at 4:30am Sunday for an OT day. 
Ugly ol' 5 point scrub buck, but I don't think Chase could have been happier when we found it.
We worried about the heat that night, Chase gutted it and then packed it with a couple frozen gallon jugs to cool it down and luckily one of our neighbors who processes deer and has a walkin cooler was still up and Chase was able to take it in that night. (Thank you online check-in!)
Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
