Free: Contests & Raffles.
I went out this morning and will be back this afternoon; wash, rinse, repeat for the next three days. Starting tomorrow I may stay out all day long (if its rainy). My husband already filled his tag, so he's with me for the company . Saw absolutely nothing this morning and heard no gunshots (GMU 627). I took work off for this.
Hit the woods this morning. Spotted 2 does in a cut I was sitting on at dawn, they went and bedded next to the woods. I went down to them and got a little to close. They blew a little and trotted a little ways away. I then hit the timber and walked parallel to them as they were out in the cut. They are oblivious to my new location and the wind is perfect. I'm sitting there behind a tree about 80 yards from em and then they start moving up the cut. I'm scoping them and then all out of nowhere there is a fork buck trotting right on their tails. I almost squeezed in a neck shot but the timber blocked my view. My heart was racing and I sprinted to get a better view. Sadly the deer never did stay still long enough for me to get a clear shot. Looking back I probably could have shot him in the butt with my 7mm just to slow him down and then finish him off... There is a good reason you're not allowed to talk to yourself in the past, else this morning's me would be strangled. You never realize how much you want a blacktail buck until he just barely escapes your grasp!!
