Score with the daughter once again
Jan 15, 2019 22:16:55 GMT -5
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Post by kings6 on Jan 15, 2019 22:16:55 GMT -5
Two years ago I was able to take my daughter out to a friends farm and she got her first deer, a little buck which she called her tenderoni! She had come home for just a week or so while her husband was on a TDY and it worked out perfect for her to get her deer. This year she did not get a tag but I drew an either sex depredation type tag and the season for this tag runs through Feb 28 of this year. I figured she would be up sometime during the season so I held off hunting until she could go with me.
Yesterday we went out to the same farm and while the tag was for either sex, the friend asked that I only shoot a doe since they were grazing like cattle on his new fields. We were a little late getting out and there were already 20+ does and yearlings in the field. Since it is rolling wheat fields it was impossible to get within range using the 41 mag I bought frr Roy Fishpaw's widow. As wide open as it is, I would have had to use the 414 Supermag with the 4X scope!
We used that scouting trip to plan what time to get out there today and it worked out perfect. The wind was a little hinky but we were able to sneak out to the base of the big oak and get set up just as we saw the deer start out of the neighboring brush and into the field. KT had snuggled down behind a large dirt pile and I was set up behind the large oak and glassed through the briars as the herd fed into the field. Ironically I had taken the 7mm-08 single shot anticipating a longer shot but by getting there early I could have probably gotten by with the 41. After 20 minutes the herd had fed out into the wheat and I had a nice clear shot a a large doe so I signaled to KT and when she had her ears plugged I reduced the herd by one nice doe.
As the rest of the herd headed back into the brush we got to the doe and hitched both ends of a pull rope to her and drug her down the hill to a brushy draw where we did the cleaning. KT was amazed at how much friction a dead deer can generate when being drug through the young wheat and mud! As soon as we got the deer cleaned she took off back to the truck with her pack and the rifle to pick up the pack frame while I finished cleaning things up, removed lower legs and cut the carcass into a front and back half. Once she returned I strapped both halves on the wibbly wobbly frame and she helped get it up on the old man and off we went like a turd of hurdles ----- I mean a herd of turtles! Fifty yards then let to old guy bend over and rest then do it again. We made it back to the truck just a darkness hit and the rain started falling
Nothing special about the deer except that I got to spend the time with my only daughter on one of her trips home from where they are stationed. I LOVE getting to spend time in the woods with my kids no matter how old they get!
Before the old guy got tuckered out!
Sucking wind for the truck!
Yesterday we went out to the same farm and while the tag was for either sex, the friend asked that I only shoot a doe since they were grazing like cattle on his new fields. We were a little late getting out and there were already 20+ does and yearlings in the field. Since it is rolling wheat fields it was impossible to get within range using the 41 mag I bought frr Roy Fishpaw's widow. As wide open as it is, I would have had to use the 414 Supermag with the 4X scope!
We used that scouting trip to plan what time to get out there today and it worked out perfect. The wind was a little hinky but we were able to sneak out to the base of the big oak and get set up just as we saw the deer start out of the neighboring brush and into the field. KT had snuggled down behind a large dirt pile and I was set up behind the large oak and glassed through the briars as the herd fed into the field. Ironically I had taken the 7mm-08 single shot anticipating a longer shot but by getting there early I could have probably gotten by with the 41. After 20 minutes the herd had fed out into the wheat and I had a nice clear shot a a large doe so I signaled to KT and when she had her ears plugged I reduced the herd by one nice doe.
As the rest of the herd headed back into the brush we got to the doe and hitched both ends of a pull rope to her and drug her down the hill to a brushy draw where we did the cleaning. KT was amazed at how much friction a dead deer can generate when being drug through the young wheat and mud! As soon as we got the deer cleaned she took off back to the truck with her pack and the rifle to pick up the pack frame while I finished cleaning things up, removed lower legs and cut the carcass into a front and back half. Once she returned I strapped both halves on the wibbly wobbly frame and she helped get it up on the old man and off we went like a turd of hurdles ----- I mean a herd of turtles! Fifty yards then let to old guy bend over and rest then do it again. We made it back to the truck just a darkness hit and the rain started falling
Nothing special about the deer except that I got to spend the time with my only daughter on one of her trips home from where they are stationed. I LOVE getting to spend time in the woods with my kids no matter how old they get!
Before the old guy got tuckered out!
Sucking wind for the truck!
