With the fresh snow on the ground my 10 year old step son and I could not wait to get in the stand Sat. evening. We were walking into the stand at 2:30 and the deer were already in the field. We managed to scare them off with out doing much harm. We were settled in by 2:45. Around 3:15 does and fawns started to filter in. Most of them were in the Rye field to the north. At about 3:45 I spotted a 2 1/2 year old comeing our way. I got Chase set up with the gun but he never came closer then 110 yards and I did not want him to shoot that far. Deer kept comeing into the field but nothing with head gear. At 4:20 I saw a deer walk into the Buck forage oats and I new it was a buck. I ranged the buck and he was at 126 yards and going the other way into the standing corn field. I glassed him and saw he was a real good buck. So as calmly as I could I told Chase it was a real good buck but it was too far for him to shoot. I grabbed the gun and told him I was going to try and shoot him. He was pretty pumped. By this time the buck was probably 130-150 yards out. He was quartering towards us a little bit. I had a good hold on him and squeezed the trigger. Well when the smoke cleared I started to panic because he was not on the ground and about 10 deer were running and I couldn’t see him. Then I saw him. He was not running hard but the other ones weren’t either. They really didn’t know what was going on. We were pumped. I reloaded and started gathering our gear. Deer started to come back out onto the field so we sat still and watched for another buck. After a few minutes we climbed down and went to the spot. We could not find any blood or hair. I could not believe I missed. I already made up my mind that we were comeing back first thing in the morning. At 7:30pm I could not take it anymore. I got dressed and went out looking. I got on the track that I thought was his and followed it for about 70 yards. I saw where he had stumbled and finally I saw a couple drops of blood. I followed it for another 50 yards still seeing very little blood. Then I found where he had layed down. There was blood on both sides of the bed. About 5 yards away there was another bed but not near as much blood. I snuck out and went home. Well it was a sleepless night but at 7:30am Chase and I were back on the trail. We didn’t get far and we found another bed with blood in it. We ended up finding 12 different areas where he either layed down or fell down. The further we went the more blood we saw. I looked about 50 yards ahead of us and there he layed.
December 6, 2010 at 2:48 am
#202200
He’s a tank 
Time is running out on me… 
Shockwave 250’s 
They just don’t do any damage 
