Post by whiskey on Oct 31, 2010 7:35:34 GMT -5
We had a cold snap Friday night and it was the first good frost we've had on Saturday morning. Lana and I were in a double ladder stand Saturday morning. I set up this ladder stand for bow hunting, but after getting a lot of doe pictures off the trail cam near it, I decided to lay off it and let Lana hunt it for the first time during the youth hunt. We had deer nearby at first light. Problem was that all the deer were crossing the field in front of us instead of using the trail we were set up on. Because I had set this up for bow hunting, I had purposely left a lot of limbs to conceal me from the field. Lana wasn't able to get a clean shot. We ending up seeing about a dozen does and 4 bucks. All the bucks were small, but it was fun seeing deer for what seemed like 2 straight hours.
Lana had a football game to cheer for at 10am so I took her to meet my wife and I went back to move the ladder stand for evening hunt. Unfortunately I had asked my hunting partner to lock the stand for me and he used a lock that I don't have a key for. No problem, we had a backup plan. I had placed a blind on a biologic field last weekend. I had not hunted it but did have reports of lots of does using it and one giant buck had been seen right at dark a couple times. We decided to give the blind a go since Lana had killed deer on the same field the previous two years. We had deer in the woods around us an hour before sunset. They were eating acorns on the far side of the field and I thought it was going to get dark before they came out to give her a shot. Then we heard deer behind us and this big doe came out into the field 10 yards from our blind. Lana had to wait another 15 minutes for the doe to clear some brush and then a little more for her to turn broadside. The shot was perfect. She took the top off the heart and got both lungs. The big doe rolled and was DRT! Deer Jerky and Grilled Backstrap on the menu this week.
