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Had an interesting morning. Got out a little late this morning. Went to a small box stand I built that's on the ground, overlooking a creek bottom right near my house. Settled in about 7:30. About 8am I see 2 does and 3 fawns feeding along. Then about 30 mins later, a Mink comes by about 15yds away. :shock: First time in my life I've seen one, really cool and was jet black. Shortly after that a turkey flies and lands literally about 12 feet from me...shocked me as I had no idea it was coming until it hit the ground right next to me. LOL
Fast fwd to about 10am, I leave the stand and head to the house and shed some layers. Warming up quick. One of our ladder stands the platform came loose from the ladder on one side...I decided to run back there and fix it. So I grab a ratchet strap and my gun and head out. Took a little bit to fix the stand, and then I proceeded to jump on it to make sure it mated good again. Clank, clank. Musta come out when we had some serious wind a while back. So I grab my gun, and head down the logging road back to the house to get on with my day. I walk about 30yds and see a deer walking about 60yds ahead. It stops right behind a tree. I shoulder my rifle and DANG... its a dandy
Unfortunately, he stopped with a tree covering his entire front end. All I can see is his head and his hind quarters. And of course he looks around and sees me standing there in the middle of the road and locks on me. We had a stare down for at least 5 minutes. I just knew he was gonna take a couple more steps. Finally he turns and begins to move off...and of course at a pretty deliberate walk, keeping about every tree he can between us. No snort, no tail - just heading out. I never got a clear shot so I just watched him move off. I followed him a ways with my binos, and then hung around for a while, hoping maybe he'd circle back or something. No luck. He was a super nice 8pt for my area...wide, heavy, dark horns. I looked back through my game cam pics and I have him back in August still in velvet. The MK will have to wait.
If he would have only stopped with the tree covering his rear end instead.... funny how it seems to work that way. He didn't see me first - I saw him first. Doesn't usually work that way. It was just dumb luck where he stopped. Oh well, that's why its hunting. Maybe tomorrow. :yeah:
On a positive note, my son killed a nice 6 point a week ago monday with his MK-85. Decent body and rack (probably 100"), no brows. He was happy for sure! I'll try and post up some pics of it...just haven't had time to try and fight photobucket. Tomorrow is the last day of early ML... rifle opens Sat, and the war begins.
Fast fwd to about 10am, I leave the stand and head to the house and shed some layers. Warming up quick. One of our ladder stands the platform came loose from the ladder on one side...I decided to run back there and fix it. So I grab a ratchet strap and my gun and head out. Took a little bit to fix the stand, and then I proceeded to jump on it to make sure it mated good again. Clank, clank. Musta come out when we had some serious wind a while back. So I grab my gun, and head down the logging road back to the house to get on with my day. I walk about 30yds and see a deer walking about 60yds ahead. It stops right behind a tree. I shoulder my rifle and DANG... its a dandy
Unfortunately, he stopped with a tree covering his entire front end. All I can see is his head and his hind quarters. And of course he looks around and sees me standing there in the middle of the road and locks on me. We had a stare down for at least 5 minutes. I just knew he was gonna take a couple more steps. Finally he turns and begins to move off...and of course at a pretty deliberate walk, keeping about every tree he can between us. No snort, no tail - just heading out. I never got a clear shot so I just watched him move off. I followed him a ways with my binos, and then hung around for a while, hoping maybe he'd circle back or something. No luck. He was a super nice 8pt for my area...wide, heavy, dark horns. I looked back through my game cam pics and I have him back in August still in velvet. The MK will have to wait.
If he would have only stopped with the tree covering his rear end instead.... funny how it seems to work that way. He didn't see me first - I saw him first. Doesn't usually work that way. It was just dumb luck where he stopped. Oh well, that's why its hunting. Maybe tomorrow. :yeah:
On a positive note, my son killed a nice 6 point a week ago monday with his MK-85. Decent body and rack (probably 100"), no brows. He was happy for sure! I'll try and post up some pics of it...just haven't had time to try and fight photobucket. Tomorrow is the last day of early ML... rifle opens Sat, and the war begins.