Yummy, and one less poc to set coyote traps off! Lol

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I want to hear the story of the hunt. Feel free to make it spicy. Like how you and your horse belly crawled through Deadman's gulch and you went sidesaddle once you got within 300 yards of the magnificent meaty beast to avoid detection and you shot it one-handed, well, just because you can. Something like that.

Yeah, tell us a story!

Good eater. Nice!

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I will fry bacon in the nude but I ain't brave enough to fire a rifle off a horse.

That, my friend, is why you don't have your own trapping site...
Come on Boss. Tell us a story. We don't really care if its true or not.

It wasn't anything nearly dramatic as that. This is a site that is owned by a fella who use to subcontract with me to take care of the timber companies' beavers in the southeast part of the state. He did this for about ten years, then International Paper sold most of their holdings and that was that. Anyway he has farm, and he was complaining a few years ago about the deer eating up his garden. I told my son about it and he hunted the site. I think he got four deer that year. The following year, my son wasn't able to hunt it, so I took up the job. This was last year. There was no good tree to put a stand in, so my son had made a table in which to shoot from.

Last year I killed two bucks at this site. I wanted to get a doe or two, but I didn't see any does the rest of the season. We can get two bucks and four does, and I already had my two bucks.

I hadn't been out much this year because it's been too danged hot. So, the evening I got this deer, it was nice and cool. I set up the table and put three sandbags on it to use a a rest. It had to have that much elevation because the there was a grade, and I was sitting on the upper side of the grade with the table on the lower part. I sat back in my lawn chair, put the gun on the rest, looked down through the scope to see if I had it lined up good, and all of a sudden the table with the sandbags collapsed. I thought awe crap, what to do now. I scrounged up a couple forked sticks , laced them together at the top to make a bipod. I figured that would work for now.

I have a pile of corn near the edge of a field with woods surrounding the field. My ground blind is at the upper end of the field, making it about a hundred yard shot. At about 4:40 I see movement coming out of the woods. I was hoping for a doe, but no, it had to be a buck. He approached the corn pile and started eating. I wanted a broadside shot, but it remained facing me. When he brought his head up, I put a round into it's chest. He ran about 60 yards and dropped. I field dressed it, put it in the back of the truck and headed to the Family Dollar store a short ways away. I purchased four bags of ice, packed them in and on the deer to get it to cool down. The next day I skinned the deer and put the meat into coolers on ice. I like to leave it in the coolers for a couple days before cutting and packaging.

That's all there was to it. Not much drama, just adapted to the situation.

… that’s a good story with the table collapsing and all lol

.. sounds like a decent spot to get some quick meat … maybe the does will cooperate for you next time out

Good story, thanks.

Way to go, Paul! My first buck was shot with a scoped Marlin like that.

Agreed adversity overcome! Good story and sounds like a great shot