buckhunter
12-14-2009, 06:54 PM
well took off mid morning friday and went to delway to pick up some deer and hunt the afternoon.got there before 1p.m. and met up with the guys and basically screwed around till about 2:30.everyone was talking about where they were going and i was basically just waiting for them to tell me what stand i was hunting.well.........got sent to the same field that randy had killed his 8 pointer and a couple others the evening before,different end though,and was ready for the evening's hunt.sat in a stand for an hour or so and about 4:30ish ,the very first deer that walked out,was a big ole bruiser of a buck 6 pointer!!!!!!!!!horns were not scaled to his body but he was a 15" 5 1/2 -6 1/2 year old deer that would weigh somewheres in the neighborhood of the 175lb-180lb range.just a "man" of a deer!as i was watching him i had a doe and this years yearling come out from where my truck was parked in the woods,a big cow horn walked out across the other field,deer had walked out back towards the highway and i do not know what they were and then another doe and 2 of last years yearlings came out.the buck walked all the way across the field to where the last doe and older yearlings had walked out and went in the woods.after making a scan of the perimeter i readied myself to kill the doe.she didn't walk far enough out in the field to where i would have been comfortable shooting her in the head[i had the big ole pine tree between me and her].she kept getting a little closer all the time but just would not walk to where i could shoot.after 5-6 minutes of the cat and mouse she was approaching the tree line and i braced up on the left side of the pine[of course she heard my gloves scratching the bark or something[my hands were about to freeze!!i took the wrong gloves!] well anyway she trotted 3-4 steps and i figured she was going to blow.so instead of the head shot i placed the crosshairs on her shoulder and squeezed the trigger.the .06 barked,i heard the thump and she was laying just inside the tree line,the 165gr federal fusion bullet did it's job!i was basically a happy hunter at this point in time=first deer i ever killed in delway+first deer i ever shot with my 30-06+first deer ever with a .30-06.as for everyone else=randy killed a 7pointer,donny killed 2 does,dale killed a doe and there was a lot of other shots in the air!when we got home to my house randy's buck weighed 150lbs,rutted out,and my doe weighed just under 140lbs. it is a totally different world hunting away from sneads ferry!!!!!!!