The drought is over meatindabox

[bigfish4me]

Finally got it done yesterday, start of the firearms season in Pa...and i find myself in a tree stand with my bow...wtf? I was supposed to head upstate to deer camp with the boys for 4 days...but work as usual kept me from heading up. As it turned out my cuz wasnt heading up either so we put together a game plan for the morning hunt. We have been laying off this one hill side that holds some good deer, a little too tight for the bang bangs so archery it was. I had already said to myself before i ever got into the stand that today was meat day...if its brown its down kind of day. I didnt have to wait long, a little before 7 am and barely had enough light to light up my fiberoptic pins and a 5 yard shot...thwack.This deer hauled over towards my cuz's stand and i hear the tell tale shot of his extremely loud bow.....ok he stuck her too.I couldnt see my arrow from my stand so i started doubting...mabye i missed and the arrow is buried under the leaves..low light i guess i missed. About 8 am a doe and 2 yearlings get to 10 yards....the big doe busted me cold...the bigger of the 2 yearlings....stayed about 5 seconds too long and i drilled her at about 8 yards...pass through shot, she ran about 20 yards and crumbled. This deer just wouldnt die, it was really only about 15 minutes but it felt like an hour, seem like my shot was a little high...double lung but top of the lungs. We had planned on meeting at the trucks around 9:30...and honestly i couldnt sit in that stand for another minute...so at 9 i made the call to my cuz. I asked him if he shot the one from first light...he said you mean the one that ran over and died 5 feet from my tree....aha i thought that shot looked good...so i got 2 does down.....were eating good,turns out the shot i heard early was him drilling a big bodied doe...or so he thought, a scrubby 5 pointer it was, just legal and low light....but a good deer it was, so by 9 am we had 3 deer down all with bows during the firearms season.We had a break for lunch...deer steaks he had marinating overnight.....you wanna talk about good stuff, then we did some drives down along the river bottom that were fruitless but by then it didnt matter.It felt good to go elbow deep in a deer again, and a pile of deer in the bed of the truck....yes yesterday was a good day.

[Jared D]

Sounds like a Rambo flick!
Bodies and carnage! My kind of hunting! Great trip!

[weekender]

great story, congrats on the meat with the bow in rifle season.

[bigfish4me]

great story, congrats on the meat with the bow in rifle season.

Thanks it was nice to get some deer down on the ground, i had about 6 shots presented to me...all does, i thought about plugging another since i have 4 doe tags....but 2 is plenty to drag off the hill, plus my cuz had his buck so we did enough damage for one day.

[Buckeye]

I COMMEND YOU. I thiught I was the only one stupid enough to hunt during gun season with a bow. Well done.

[WAHOONBOX]

NOW THAT'S WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!

[bigfish4me]

Hey box...had a good shot at a nice looking fox...looks like the deer are not the only ones that like the mineral station i put down,just as i contemplated putting his furry tail on the wall...he tensed up, there was a squirrel not 10' from the fox and completly unaware of the fox....so i let him hunt...me and my cuz were not the only successful hunters on the hill yesterday. It was real cool watching this fox bag that squirrel 10 yards from my tree....never heard a squirrel squeel like that before.

[bigfish4me]

1:30 pm...12/2/08......Just got the call from my cuz, he sat his stand this morning and watched a dandy buck pretty much rub my tree stand steps, he spiked another doe around 10 this morning.....if it were not for work i would have been in position...guess that made up my mind about where i am gonna hunt tonight, lets see if we can make it 3...more to come.

[cravertosu]

Just AWESOME!!!