No yotes getting this one

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The wife had to work yesterday, and she usually gets home around 3:20 or so. That would give me about an hour and a half of legal hunting time by the time I get ready and get out to a stand. She got home a little later than usual and it was pretty windy out and I hem hawed for a few minutes about whether to go and try to bust some yotes or to try to go and kill a deer or even if I should go out at all with it being so late. Had not taken an unscented shower like I normally would before going hunting and figured the wind was not going to hurt me. Looked like it would be blowing across me if I hunted the old blind behind the house. I get out the door a little after 4 and walk over behind where I have our hay stored and look to the bottom with my binos to check and see if any deer are out in the bottom feeding yet. Nothing there, so I figured they were probably in transit and decided to head to the blind back behind the house. Walked near the bottom of the hill around to the deep ravine that is behind the blind. Slipped up the hill and into the blind pretty quietly and undetected, was probably about 4:20 by the time I got settled in. The wind calmed down a little just around the sunset and about 5 deer started coming into the far end of the field and headed towards our grower plot. Had a mature doe and two little ones, they kept looking back and one more little one came out. It was overcast and with the binoculars I could tell that the one doe was a pretty decent size doe. The last one that came out kept on looking back. The shot on the big doe at the time I was looking would have been around 200 yards. With the little ones and only one mature doe I decided to hold out to see what else was coming and after a few minutes of feeding around that doe started heading towards the opposite corner of my field where our cam and the mineral site is located. Then I see a couple more decent size does come out and tried to compare. The one that was heading across the field looked to probably be one of the bigger does. She gets out straight in front of me about 85 yards out and sticks her nose up I guess trying to wind me. After she puts her head back down I raise my .270 and get my scope on her. It was kind of dim, but I had her in my scope. She was just far enough over this little hump in the field that I did not have a very good shot on the lungs, so I followed her in my scope until I had a good shot at approximately 80 yards out and placed the crosshairs right behind the shoulder and then flipped off the safety carefully and squeezed. I could not see exactly where she went after I shot, but thought I heard her fall just in the edge of the woods. I called my wife on the radio and told her to grab the lights and bundle up the kids and and come on with the truck right away. While waiting for the wife to get back with the truck I scanned the field with my binoculars and could see 6 deer straight out at the end of my field about 200 yards out and they stuck around back there for a few minutes.

After losing that one to the yotes Wednesday I was not going to wait. About 15-20 minutes after the shot we found good blood and followed it about 45 yards just into the edge of the woods where she was down. While I was working on field dressing my deer, my wife and I could hear several coyotes howling probably no more than 200 yards off in the downwind direction of our house, presumably heading towards the carcass of the one they stole from me.

Without checking the teeth yet I guess this doe is a 3 1/2 year old and probably had a live weight of around 130-140lbs, not quite as big as the one I shot with the bow.

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VermontHunter Monster Buck

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Re: No yotes getting this one

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good deal William

set up on that gut pile for a shot at the yotes!

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Yep, planning on trying to bait some coyotes in and busting them with the wifes .243.

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Make's me wish I lived a little closer to ya...I could use a little target practice at some live game. Since all of the big game seasons here in Vermont are closed some mangy mutt target practice, sure would cure the itchy trigger finger.. tongue.giftongue.gif

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