Hoosierbuck Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 (edited) I was sitting is a historically good stand that had not shown me much this year. It overlooks a marshy/swampy area that has several good deer trails that converge under this stand. At about 7:45 I heard deer moving through the marsh grass and cattails. One...two...three...four of them, no antlers. Nothing trailing within 150 yards that I could see. I draw a bead on the first big one, sho almost immediately catches my wind or something, but goes on alert and runs 15 yards back, leaving the other three confused and at 20 yards. I was holding a Winchester 94 in .44 Mag, with a 4x scope on top. I put the crosshairs on the first one and fired, the others did not bolt, so I racked the lever and did the same again. I am keeping the deer in sight with peripheral vision as I rack the lever again-shell hits scope and falls back into action, dump- and fire on the third one. MISS. Repeat-hit! That one goes 10 yards and drops, the second one is dropping now 20 yards further out, where I can see the marsh grass waving. The first one shot is now standing by some small trees in the marsh 40 yards out and wavering, then she drops. I sit tight for a half hour, during which I see the original leader walking away, checking her backtrail for her companions. I see a nice wide, heavy eight point with short tines pass by at 125 yards. Thought about it, but the prospects of getting 4 deer out of the swamp are daunting, plus it was not a gimme shot throught the brush and off-hand. Pass. I saw one more doe following that buck later. Pass. I heard a shot ring out, and my buddy downed a doe on the other side of the woods. Retrieving the deer was a lot like work, and I fell in the water and muck about three times. I am thankful I had a buddy along that morning. He earned his keep, for sure. The biggest dressed at 135. Mostly done with processing. Loving the sight of those backstraps! HB Edited November 23, 2009 by Hoosierbuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Your county must allow you a lot of doe tags. Mine doesn't allow many tags on does. We can either kill a buck and doe, then we are done for my county. Or we can kill three does, but would have to go to another county to kill our buck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronS Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Good job HB! I hope to do something real similar to that this coming Saturday morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledrop Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 nice job on the doe kills, wish everybodu would shoot some doe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 That's a load of does....congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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