Hunting with Mike

Not exactly the big 8-10 point I was looking for, but this doe will put a few pounds of venison back in my empty freezer. The deer were really spotty this year, as the old stand by places didn’t pay off as in years past. We never took a deer off the property where I shot two last year, and saw very few on the new 160 acres I leased. There seemed to be alot of shooting around us, but we weren’t in the “right” place at the “right” time!

I came home today, but dropped Mike off at the property, and there were fresh tracks all over our cut cornfield. The farmer across the road was cutting his corn, and the deer were looking for a place to hide. Thursday evening, when I shot the doe, I saw three others with it. They were “carrying the mail” and it didn’t look like I was going to get a shot. I grabbed my muzzle-loader and followed them through the thick brush with my scope. The biggest one stopped about 60 yards out, and I anchored her with a heart/lung shot. I don’t know how, but she still ran about 80 yards before piling up! On my way out to get the 4-wheeler I jumped two more in our fence row, but couldn’t tell what they were. That same evening Mike missed a forkhorn, and Tony and Quinn didn’t see anything. My brother Brett has been skunked so far, but my nephew Scott Smiley shot his first buck (8-point.) Brother Randy took a 4-point in the U.P. and I’m still waiting to hear from the rest of the crew. There was a beautiful typical 16 pointer at the Addison deer locker, and I saw two really nice bucks on my way home.

If you have a good story to tell, and some pictures, send them to me and I’ll do a “blog!”

Mike

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