Post by MywifeandMe on Nov 5, 2006 20:28:48 GMT -6
My dad, my buddy, and I put in for a ML hunt. We were drew in and ready to head down to that spot. It was about a 3 hr drive. We took off Friday at 5 am to get down there and scout the place out. We had never hunted there before and we couldnt hunt til Saturday so we needed to check the place out. We got there and headed out into the woods after getting set up in the cabin. We scouted a lot of the area and picked out 3 spots each. We found a good spot that we decided to get up and head out to the next morning. It was on top of a hill. We had seen a couple of other guys setting up at the bottom of the hill but we shouldnt interfere with each other. It had food plots and fresh scrapes and rubs everywhere. The rubline was about 300 yds off the food plot. So thats where we were gonna sit.
We got up at 3:30 because we had to sign in and wanted to be out there to get our spots because it was first come first serve kinda thing. We wanted to be the first out there. When we showed up to our spots there was a guy walking down the trail to the tree I had picked out. So....we went with plan B. This plan didnt have near the scrapes but we did find a good rub line. I like to hunt by my dad just because I dont get to often. My dad took the north side of the field...I took the south side. I had given him what I thought would be the better spot. We were supposed to go back into the woods about 300 yds or so off the food plot, but it was dark and I only had a flash light to find a good spot. I found a spot and put my tree stand up. It was pitch black when I was doing this. I climbed the tree only about 15 foot up because if I got too high it would have obstructed my view. As the light grew brighter I thought......wow....I found another grassy field like the one we parked beside to come in here. As it grew brighter and brighter I seen a truck parked the same way I parked. It had a camper the same color as our camper and it was only about 150 yds away. Holy crap....I had walked in a big circle and wound up 100 yds off the wheat field and was looking at MY truck! LOL So...I thought well...I will just sit here so I wont disturb anyone until about 8 and then will move my stand if I didnt see anything. I heard a shot and thought my dad had got one. I thought...well he will call anytime and I will go help him with his deer. About 15 minutes later I heard something walking up behind me. I thought it was my dad coming. I turned around and seen the deer about 50 yds away coming straight at me. He had come out of a draw right behind me. I turned around in my stand and looked to see if he had horns and whether or not he was big enough to shoot. He stepped into the opening and I could see he was what I wanted. I fired a shot and when the smoke cleared I seen him take three steps back and fell over. I shot him at 6:50am. I sat there for about 20 minutes to see if anything else would come up so my dad could get a shot. Nothing else showed so I drug him to the truck and waited on my dad. It was not him that had shot earlier. He didnt see anything.
We stayed to let my dad and my buddy hunt that evening and the next morning. The game people there were pretty cool and let me go in and hang my stand by my dads so I could see him take a deer if one showed. My buddy seen some does but didnt take any of them. My dad didnt see anything but it was fun and Im glad we got to go.
We got up at 3:30 because we had to sign in and wanted to be out there to get our spots because it was first come first serve kinda thing. We wanted to be the first out there. When we showed up to our spots there was a guy walking down the trail to the tree I had picked out. So....we went with plan B. This plan didnt have near the scrapes but we did find a good rub line. I like to hunt by my dad just because I dont get to often. My dad took the north side of the field...I took the south side. I had given him what I thought would be the better spot. We were supposed to go back into the woods about 300 yds or so off the food plot, but it was dark and I only had a flash light to find a good spot. I found a spot and put my tree stand up. It was pitch black when I was doing this. I climbed the tree only about 15 foot up because if I got too high it would have obstructed my view. As the light grew brighter I thought......wow....I found another grassy field like the one we parked beside to come in here. As it grew brighter and brighter I seen a truck parked the same way I parked. It had a camper the same color as our camper and it was only about 150 yds away. Holy crap....I had walked in a big circle and wound up 100 yds off the wheat field and was looking at MY truck! LOL So...I thought well...I will just sit here so I wont disturb anyone until about 8 and then will move my stand if I didnt see anything. I heard a shot and thought my dad had got one. I thought...well he will call anytime and I will go help him with his deer. About 15 minutes later I heard something walking up behind me. I thought it was my dad coming. I turned around and seen the deer about 50 yds away coming straight at me. He had come out of a draw right behind me. I turned around in my stand and looked to see if he had horns and whether or not he was big enough to shoot. He stepped into the opening and I could see he was what I wanted. I fired a shot and when the smoke cleared I seen him take three steps back and fell over. I shot him at 6:50am. I sat there for about 20 minutes to see if anything else would come up so my dad could get a shot. Nothing else showed so I drug him to the truck and waited on my dad. It was not him that had shot earlier. He didnt see anything.
We stayed to let my dad and my buddy hunt that evening and the next morning. The game people there were pretty cool and let me go in and hang my stand by my dads so I could see him take a deer if one showed. My buddy seen some does but didnt take any of them. My dad didnt see anything but it was fun and Im glad we got to go.
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