Got Ready-Got deer

[Bill Bounds]

Well....
Nothin to brag about. Even a little embarassing. Was standing on a ridge top daydreaming as usual and looked up, there was a deer at 40 yds, she looked a little small but an adult. I cracked off a round. soon as I pulled the trigger I realized I missed the shot. Shot over her, cause I didn't have the right sight alignment,too much post,not enough rear sight. The deer hopped a few yards with a tree between me and her,now about thirty yds. I froze while the deer was peering around. after a minute I realized I could sorta slide a couple of inches to the left and reload. I popped out the loading block, and powder while the dumbest deer in PA waited for me. It stepped from behind the tree and stood broadside for shot number two which did the trick.
Scouted out a new area today, supposed to have a lot of deer, and I have one more doe tag to fill. Got a late start cause I slept in till 5:30,After a hour and half of driving and almost hitting two deer on the way, I got out of the truck in the fog. walked up the path a minute and there was a doe standing at 50 yds. I thought that I wouldn't get much scouting done in the new area if I got a deer in the first 5 minutes so I let her go. Turned out that was the only shot I'd have this day. My son is going out later on this week and really wanted a report of the area. He uses an in-line, We'll have to see if we can convince him to use a proper black powder weapon and get read of that contraption. So after laboring up the mountain and looking for sign, and spooking a few deer I headed back to the truck in the rain. Latex gloves do a fair job of keeping the lock dry. Looks like I need more stuff, make a cows knee, buy a glove, and an orange hat. Man I lose something every time I head into the woods.
Till the next time:
Bill

 

[cayugad]

Congratulations on the deer. Maybe it was the dumbest deer in PA. Good thing to get her out of the gene pool. Just kidding... nice going. Any venison is good venison. I swear I could live on the stuff and practically do....

Actually I am sure why but others might have noticed the same thing, a muzzleloader going off does not always seem to spook every deer. Last year I shot a doe out of a group from a tree stand. Ten minutes later a second doe and a couple others (I am guessing from the same group) came right back into the same area and I dropped her not 30 feet from the first one. Twenty minutes later I actually could have shot a third one, but I did not want to shoot anymore that day knowing I had two of them to butcher the next day already. they had this little area to cross to reach the main field where they all fed.

Again, congratulations..... :thumbsup:

 

Wiley,.... Thet was mighty sport'n of you to fire a "warn'n shot 'cross her bow"!! :thumbsup: :haha: Reckon yore gonna enjoy some fine eat'n!!

YMHS
rollingb

 

[Rebel]

Have noticed the same thing with does. A few year ago i shot a buck with my .54 cal. GPR at 90 paces. There were about 12 does with him. After i walked up and starting gutting him out i had about 6-8 of the does come walking back over to where i was. Some of them got within 20 yds of me. Not allowed to shoot does here with out a special controled hunt tag, and they can be hard to come by and are only good in certain areas of the state. But they would have been easy to shoot. Didn't even sppok off when i was moving around cleaning the buck. Strange criters.

 

[fatboy]

Good to hear you got one. I know my buddy always says any deer is a good deer ! Some times deer will look right at you while your reloading like in amazement like what was that big cloud of smoke

 

[Huntinfool]

Congrats and good eatin'. :redthumb:

Chuck