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Opening day all I seen was a small doe walk up to my treestand , stare at me then walk away. Our property butts up to a lime stone quarry, we do a drive along the quarry (push the pit as we call it). Well I go stand at the far end and climb to the top of the ridge. I just crest the ridge and this little forky comes running straight at me.
I told my self I was going to shoot a doe if I see one , because I wanted meat in the freezer. Well I usually don't shoot little bucks but he was running straight at me and I had a second to decide weather to shoot. When he seen me he started turning and I shot him in front of the shoulder with no exit at 50 feet. He then disappeared.Which I though stuff that is a 80 foot drop into the pit. When I went to the edge there was a 10 foot drop then another 20 before the big dropoff. There he layed.
We got both of these bucks on that drive about 2 minutes apart. My son with a 9 point , 45-70 guide gun and me with 99 savage in 308. I can't say enough for a 2 power scope and shooting with both eyes open. There was no trying to find the target at this close range, the cross hairs appeared and bang.
Congrats! Ten of us, after nine days in the woods, only got frostbite and a scraggly looking half spike/fork. Saw plenty of doe, but not one decent buck. Slim pick'n this year. But, the signs are better this year than last.
We are in the "Northern Forest Zone" that does not have doe permits as the DNR tries to rebuild the herd. Opening weekend started with temperature in the teens and 30 to 40 MPH gusts before turning into snow over the weekend and then into heavy rains mid week. First good day was this past Saturday when the deer finally started to come out of the heavy timber/swamps, even though the temperature was in the single digits. Prior to that we only saw the occasional doe. Saturday I personally saw five of them.
Oh well...BP is going on now and will probably have better luck near my permanent home.
Ben, apparently the western part of the state was a tad better than the north.
Old Time Hunter wrote:Congrats! Ten of us, after nine days in the woods, only got frostbite and a scraggly looking half spike/fork. Saw plenty of doe, but not one decent buck. Slim pick'n this year. But, the signs are better this year than last.
We are in the "Northern Forest Zone" that does not have doe permits as the DNR tries to rebuild the herd. Opening weekend started with temperature in the teens and 30 to 40 MPH gusts before turning into snow over the weekend and then into heavy rains mid week. First good day was this past Saturday when the deer finally started to come out of the heavy timber/swamps, even though the temperature was in the single digits. Prior to that we only saw the occasional doe. Saturday I personally saw five of them.
Oh well...BP is going on now and will probably have better luck near my permanent home.
Ben, apparently the western part of the state was a tad better than the north.
Yes it was. I was hunting southwest corner in Vernon county. It was a perfect morning . Got an inch of snow over night and morning temp was 27 degrees with zero wind. You could her everything moving in the woods, in was that quiet. But still did not see a lot or hear a lot of shooting.
