Double Drop Surprise. A few years ago, I had a fellow that I somewhat owed a favor ask me if I would help him put his wife on a deer. Anything legal would do. He said she was a great shot and would hunt hard. I really figured he was just using his wife to get me to put him on one but I played along. I agreed and invited them between Christmas and new years. Late season is one of the best time to hunt pressured deer in those thickets. I had a ground blind in one of my good spots that I hadn't hunted all year and I corned it up for her and I put him in another spot....where he could see a long way and watch does LOL.
I had to work But marked a trail and got them set up for the next day. They agreed that if they shot anything in the evening that they would just come back to my house and wait o me as they didn't know the woods. When I got home just at dark, they were there. She said she had shot at a buck but should have waited longer. She said she saw a bachelor group coming through the brush and the first one in was legal width so she shot him at 30yds. She had a shooting stick and was positive the scope was perfect. She said he looked like a 6pt and a HUGE deer was right behind him but she didn't know it until she shot. Her husband said he looked but didn't see any sign of a hit.
We ate supper and she kept saying she was sure of the shot so I got my light and said we were going back. Her man kept saying he was sure she missed. As I walked in she showed me where the deer came out and where he was standing. her husband headed over there ahead of me recklessly stomping through. I not so politely asked him to stop right where he was. I took about three steps and there was Hair, bone , and lungs blown on the ground that he had just walked past. Easy 40yd trail and I saw a white belly. He had driven his right antler into the ground but the left one looked pretty good! I walked up and picked that 6pts head up.... He was a 6pt all right! 6 on his left not counting the 5 inch drop tine and 5 on his right not counting the matching drop!
She and I had a pretty good celebration over her 6pt being a typical 11pt with double drops!!!!!! Oddly, her husband didn't seem all that well pleased when she said hers would be the largest one on their wall!
I had to work But marked a trail and got them set up for the next day. They agreed that if they shot anything in the evening that they would just come back to my house and wait o me as they didn't know the woods. When I got home just at dark, they were there. She said she had shot at a buck but should have waited longer. She said she saw a bachelor group coming through the brush and the first one in was legal width so she shot him at 30yds. She had a shooting stick and was positive the scope was perfect. She said he looked like a 6pt and a HUGE deer was right behind him but she didn't know it until she shot. Her husband said he looked but didn't see any sign of a hit.
We ate supper and she kept saying she was sure of the shot so I got my light and said we were going back. Her man kept saying he was sure she missed. As I walked in she showed me where the deer came out and where he was standing. her husband headed over there ahead of me recklessly stomping through. I not so politely asked him to stop right where he was. I took about three steps and there was Hair, bone , and lungs blown on the ground that he had just walked past. Easy 40yd trail and I saw a white belly. He had driven his right antler into the ground but the left one looked pretty good! I walked up and picked that 6pts head up.... He was a 6pt all right! 6 on his left not counting the 5 inch drop tine and 5 on his right not counting the matching drop!
She and I had a pretty good celebration over her 6pt being a typical 11pt with double drops!!!!!! Oddly, her husband didn't seem all that well pleased when she said hers would be the largest one on their wall!
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