I drew a 2nd Muzzleloader Deer Tag for an undisclosed location.
After a hangfire yesterday at my deer stand, I was less than motivated to get up at 0430 to try again. Well I somehow dragged myself out of bed and found myself sitting 30 ft up a pine tree, overlooking a few game trails. I put the stand up yesterday after getting busted twice sitting on the ground
Anyway, I found myself sitting in that stand for only an hour and a half before I felt my feet go numb. I do not recommend rubber barn boots when it's 32 degrees for treestand hunting
After watching a flock of turkeys meander under my tree and throughout the area, I was kicking myself for hunting with the muzzleloader and not bringing the bow instead. The sun finally began to shine a bit down into the frosty canyon around 0800. I saw movement to my left...
Well not really, it was just shadows. But they were deer shadows, long dark shadows in the golden rays of sunlight but I couldn't see the deer for a thick stand of jack pines. I could see their shadows and judged that I would eventually have about a 3 foot window they'd pass through at 75 yards.
A second later, a young doe passed through that window. I took a gamble that a bigger one was behind her. Right behind her, a mature muley doe stepped out and I whistled to stop her in that small window. She stopped too late and I had to crouch down in my stand. She was looking straight at me when THIS time, I didn't hear the cap because the roar of the gun drowned it out.
She went down immediately. Then she stood and kicked like a gutshot deer before running down the hill and out of sight.
Well I waited ten long minutes before climbing down to investigate the sign. She was laying about ten feet from where I saw her last.
Thanks for reading. I was more excited during the moment for this one than my buck earlier in the year
