The 12 point buck...

[roundball]

Celebrated Thanksgiving morning by being on stand waiting for it to get light enough to see...nasty cold, rainy weather with tornados for the past 2 days finally cleared out and it was dark, cloudy, dripping / misting with 10-20mph winds...but I HAD to go.

About 8:00am I’m surprised by a large Doe coming through the oak flat in a hurry...not really galloping, but a few quick steps walking, then a few body lengths trotting, obviously trying to get somewhere or away from something in a hurry.

When she stopped 50yds out in front of me and looked down her back trail for a few seconds, I thought 'hot dog', luck is on my side for a change, and I let her go just knowing a 12 point buck was sure to be on her track...she turned and continued on, and I got myself all ready on full alert, set the trigger, slipped off the hammer stall, and knowing he’d take the same track following it like a blood hound, I lined up on the spot where I’d shoot him and waited.

I waited, and looked and waited...then off in the distance through the wind blown trees, I saw a brief movement...then closer, another slight movement...and closer, finally it came into full view...an old, slow poke deer hound !!

But a good Thanksgiving chuckle none the less”¦

 

[RC]

good story roundball! an nary a single bleep! gees the way things is goin here seein a hound would pick things up...keep after 'em roundball there's gotta be a 12 point somewhere....or 11, gee 10 ain't bad....wait... what was wrong with my 9 point?? (i'll tell ya...seems like years ago!) good luck and thanks fer the story! RC

 

[Halftail]

That was a good snicker...You had me,I thought it would end up in a kill.
Seriously though,not too many years ago here it would't have been un common for a deer hunter to kill any Dog that would have been trailing a deer.It's perfectly legal here to do that.Having said that I wouldn't be a very happy camper if my Dog shed her Coller and got loose only to have someone shoot here for a "Loose Dog".No Sir!Not a happy Camper!

 

[PitchyPine]

I figured sure there was a pic of a 12 point coming, good one. :blah:

 

[jethro224]

Had me goin'! :rotf:

He's out there Roundball. Keep lookin'. :thumbsup:

 

[CrackStock]

So I hear that dog tastes pretty good. Was it as good as I have heard? :rotf:

CS

 

[roundball]

:grin:
Naahhh...poor old thing looked like he was on his last legs, moving real slow..heck I probably wouldn't have even seen the Doe and had a little optimistic excitement if it wasn't for him...

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Can't never tell, maybe next time a hound will chase a nice buck your way and you will get a shot. :thumbsup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

You folks in the Carolinas must be more tolerant than us NY hunters. Any dog not on a leash attached to a human or sporting an orange bandana and a bell is like as not a coyote. Or at least tried and found so by a jury of 12 . . . gauge slug.

Saw one today (a coyote, that is) that passed by me at about 100 yards and, shortly thereafter, there was a single shot from down the ridge in the direction he had been heading. Scratch another 'yote.

Where I used to hunt we had a German Shepard named "Penny" who had lost her tail somewhere along the line and loved to inspect gut piles. She was known to all the regular hunters in that area. Owned by two very old sisters who lived on the road and allowed Penny free roam. Incredibly, she lived to a ripe old doggie age in spite of being in countless sights, mine included, as the "tick-tick-tick" of feet moving through the leaves turned out to be a big, brown dog miles from home. Never once saw her "on" a live deer.

 

[roundball]

A hunting club leases the land across the road from a place I hunt and I'm sure he was one of theirs...the dog handlers are diligent in trying to cut off their dogs on the roads, etc, but every now and then one will get separated during a chase...then start wandering around alone, hit a hot track and take off on it...occasionally a deer will zip across the road into my wood lot and a dog follows after the dog handlers have moved on