Post by davie6 on Dec 16, 2012 15:17:40 GMT -5
Laid this big boy ;D
My first deer with the smokepole. We were doing a drive and I was on watch duty, with the drive going from my right to my left and I was the "watch out for ones sneaking out the side" guy. As the drive was progressing I catch movement in my periphery. A nice big doe is standing in the lane between the woods and the goldenrod patch being pushed. I put my gun up and couldn't get on her with my zoom way down, so I re-adjust my scope's zoom and get ready to pull the hammer. Then she steps into the goldenrod and out of sight. And a second doe appears in the laneway, stops for half a second and goes into the goldenrod as well. Then out steps a buck with some nice headgear, and the hammer on my muzzleloader seemed to pull itself back as I put the crosshairs on the shoulder of this nice deer. I fired and didn't get a good look at the after-shot thanks to the smoke cloud. I couldn't believe this buck was following these does right into the drive. As the drivers get closer, one shoots and then another minute goes by and a second shot rings out from the same driver. My shot had been a less than ideal hit, but it would have been lethal if the deer was given a few hours to bed down. The driver just put the "finishing touches" on it since he had walked right up on the buck and jumped it up. So after some discussion, the call was made that the deer belonged to me. I offered to give the driver the deer but he insisted that "a blind man would have been able to follow the blood trail" to the site where the deer was jumped and that I had lethally hit the deer.
What is neat is that of the 20-some bucks that we have trail camera pictures of, this deer is not one of them. It just goes to show, you never know what is going to happen once the rut hits.
I will also pose the omnipresent question, what does it score?
And yes, that is a Chevy Aveo hauling the deer around. I fit 2 deer in there on the last day of regular gun season, but they didn't have the antlers to contend with.
My first deer with the smokepole. We were doing a drive and I was on watch duty, with the drive going from my right to my left and I was the "watch out for ones sneaking out the side" guy. As the drive was progressing I catch movement in my periphery. A nice big doe is standing in the lane between the woods and the goldenrod patch being pushed. I put my gun up and couldn't get on her with my zoom way down, so I re-adjust my scope's zoom and get ready to pull the hammer. Then she steps into the goldenrod and out of sight. And a second doe appears in the laneway, stops for half a second and goes into the goldenrod as well. Then out steps a buck with some nice headgear, and the hammer on my muzzleloader seemed to pull itself back as I put the crosshairs on the shoulder of this nice deer. I fired and didn't get a good look at the after-shot thanks to the smoke cloud. I couldn't believe this buck was following these does right into the drive. As the drivers get closer, one shoots and then another minute goes by and a second shot rings out from the same driver. My shot had been a less than ideal hit, but it would have been lethal if the deer was given a few hours to bed down. The driver just put the "finishing touches" on it since he had walked right up on the buck and jumped it up. So after some discussion, the call was made that the deer belonged to me. I offered to give the driver the deer but he insisted that "a blind man would have been able to follow the blood trail" to the site where the deer was jumped and that I had lethally hit the deer.
What is neat is that of the 20-some bucks that we have trail camera pictures of, this deer is not one of them. It just goes to show, you never know what is going to happen once the rut hits.
I will also pose the omnipresent question, what does it score?
And yes, that is a Chevy Aveo hauling the deer around. I fit 2 deer in there on the last day of regular gun season, but they didn't have the antlers to contend with.