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Alyssa's First Buck!
Hey Marty! I got my first buck this year!!
I went out for the evening hunt on the 3rd and final weekend deer hunting looking for my buck. I had already gotten two deer the first weekend, 2 does, and I now I was going to be more selective. We did have doe tags still open so I was told to shoot a doe if I saw one.
Where I was hunting it is quite a walk to get to, I had to walk through the cow pasture, which entails going through an electric fence and under a barbed wire fence on the other side. There was a bull in the pen but I was told by the farmer that he was not aggressive, he wasn't aggressive at all but still I was pretty uneasy going through the pen.
Then I had to walk into the woods to where there was a clearing to my stand. The farmer apologized to me saying that I might not see anything that night, third weekend hunting for us has not always been successful, so I was looking forward to taking a nap in my stand.
There wasn't a sound to be heard, not even a bird was flying around. By this time the sun had fallen just behind the trees and my viewing area had changed.
I began looking around to see what was there. Looking to my left I saw something move along the clearing. I knew it was a deer but couldn't get a good look at it to see if it had antlers or not.
I brought my scope up and looking through the scope I didn't see any horns. Just then the head came up. Now I was almost busted so I checked the deer over quick and thought it was a very good sized doe so I decided to take her.
I took my safety off and waited for her to start grazing again. I tried to get a better shot and I must have made a noise and the head came back up. BOOM! I shot her right in the neck and down she went.
The deer seemed to fall very odd, on top of the head. My cousin shot a nice buck 2 weeks earlier and it had fallen the same way, on top of the head looking up at the sky, but I didn't want to get my hopes up.
The sun was getting lower and realizing that I still had to walk past that bull, I climbed down from my stand and headed back in. The deer was sitting right where I had shot it and I knew it was not going anywhere, plus I couldn't drag it out myself. I headed in and the farmer and my husband helped me drag the deer out.
I was very excited to see horns on this big does head. Though I didn't get a trophy buck, I am still very excited that after 7 years hunting I was able to get a buck of my own. And yes, I gutted him out myself.
Talk to you later.
Alyssa
Posted by Marty Prokop
