200 lbs Buck

Well, this morning I climbed into my stand to face a wall of fog. But as the morning progressed the fog burned away. While it was still foggy and a little dark I could make out a deer coming my way. I got up my gun and looked at it through the scope. It was a big deer but it was limping and it appeared to have a lame leg. As for antler, well all i could see was one good beam because it was broadside. I had passed up a spike the previous evening (which my mom was not happy about) so i decided to take this one. After waiting a hour and a half after the shot i got down and looked for blood. I found it and trailed it to my deer. But what a state of shock I was in to find a HUGE deer laying before me. We estimated it to be about 200 lbs and three years old. The antlers we very different though. On one side it had a good 6 inch beam and on the other side it had a mess of 8-9 short points. I had a time of it getting that deer processed.

Jacob shot his first deer!!!!!

Tuesday evening caught Jay and I (Coy) in a tree stand on the edge of a power-line overlooking a food plot. About 10 minutes before dark, we spotted 3 does crossing the power-line at about 150 yards to our left. Jay got the gun up but decided it was to far and dark for his shooting capabilities. No more then 3 minutes after this decision we heard movement on the right and a large spike walked out broadside. After stopping him with some grunts, Jay's .243 Remington roared. After finding the deer about 25 yards away we realized he doubled lunged him through the heart and broke a shoulder. Patience is truly a virtue.

This was Jay's first deer and it was a big one.