Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 9:01:32 GMT -5
I took the slug gun out yesterday and had success. I also witnessed an honest hunter on the next property which seems to be a rare thing these days. I showed up at the farm a little late, threw on the snow camo and orange camo and made my way slowly up the hill to my ground stand. As I still hunted across the top of the ridge I encountered five doe and I dropped the biggest one from forty yards away at 7:10 am. I put my tag on, dressed it out and dragged it another fifty yards across and down the hill to my natural ground blind. I got settled, broke out the thermos filled with hot chicken soup and watched the morning continue to unfold. About an hour later I see a guy in orange runnning along a hedgerow on the bordering property. He set up along the base of a big old oak tree that was ten yards inside the woods. I'm three quarters of the way up on the hillside, approx. 350 yards away and can see this guy doing a jig around the tree. I grabbed the bino's to get a better look at him. As I watched, he grabs his gun and moves at a crouch towards the hill for about ten yards and drops to one knee. I look left and there's maybe a dozen deer coming across the hill on a route that would take them fifty yards below me. The deer stop and are watching the guy. Now I have my gun in my hands in the event they come across
the property line. They took off on an angle down the hill towards our property and crossed well below me. A few seconds later, no less than twenty five deer came running following the same line as the others. Again this guy holds his fire even though several deer were thirty yards away from him...on our property. A minute later six deer came across but they didn't head down and continued their line taking them fifty yards below me. The last one struggled as it had a broken front leg. That was the one I was going to take if they continued across. They did, and I dropped that one when it crossed property lines. I collected my gear and dragged my first deer down the hill to the one I just shot. It was a shed buck with a nasty break on the left front leg. The other hunter makes his way over to me and tells me he and his buddies put on a drive. He said he had no idea I was up there but was glad I was because at least someone got a deer off their drive. I then asked him why he didn't shoot one of those deer that were close to him? He replied "they weren't on our property they were on yours." An honest man! I offered him the deer I just shot but he declined the offer, congratulated me and headed to the barn on the property he hunts. That guy is a true sportsman.
the property line. They took off on an angle down the hill towards our property and crossed well below me. A few seconds later, no less than twenty five deer came running following the same line as the others. Again this guy holds his fire even though several deer were thirty yards away from him...on our property. A minute later six deer came across but they didn't head down and continued their line taking them fifty yards below me. The last one struggled as it had a broken front leg. That was the one I was going to take if they continued across. They did, and I dropped that one when it crossed property lines. I collected my gear and dragged my first deer down the hill to the one I just shot. It was a shed buck with a nasty break on the left front leg. The other hunter makes his way over to me and tells me he and his buddies put on a drive. He said he had no idea I was up there but was glad I was because at least someone got a deer off their drive. I then asked him why he didn't shoot one of those deer that were close to him? He replied "they weren't on our property they were on yours." An honest man! I offered him the deer I just shot but he declined the offer, congratulated me and headed to the barn on the property he hunts. That guy is a true sportsman.
