Saw one doe Wednesday and that's all I've seen in the national forest. Found a beaver colony a mile away that I set up after lunch that day.

Shot a fork horn last Sunday. Not seeing a lot of deer .

Awesome Thread

As of yesterday morning, I was a little worried we weren't going to have venison this year. A buddy called and said a friend of his shot a monster of a buck up in Buffalo County, and being a beef farmer, he really did not need the meat. My buddy asked if we'd want it and I answered with a quick "He** yeah!"

Son and I hunted one of our 300 acre turkey hunting farms in the afternoon. It's real bluff country full of deer sign. He took the high ridges and I walked the valley. 10 minutes before the close of shooting time I heard him shoot. He got on the radio and said it was a long shot and he was not sure if he hit, so was going to look for blood. I stood there in the dark and about 5:15 he radioed again and said "Dad, I've got good blood!" About 5 minutes later he called and said "I got him!" One fine, long shot on a nice 8 pointer through the darkening woods. Proud of that boy!

The buck even had the common decency of running downhill, nearly to the trail. We got him gutted and dragged to the trail to meet the landowner on his Gator coming back to check on us because it was so late. He loaded everything up and drove us right to the back of my Suburban.

Took us a couple hours this afternoon to skin, quarter, and get them in a cold fridge to stiffen up. Both bucks were perfect shots with no meat wasted at all so the tribe will not starve!

Moosetrot

After not finding a buck I wanted, Hazel and I decide to put a little meat in the freezer on Saturday.

We had a couple unique fawns around that the warden assured me were legal to shoot, but I just couldnt pull the trigger. They tempted me quite often.