Well gang, as many of you know, we lost our lease out west after 30 years, so I was only able to hunt this year on some land I have in Liberty County... Killed many, many hogs off of it over the past 12 years, but never a deer. Only had the rights to hunt deer on the property for the last 4 years... I never deer hunted there because I had the place out west, and besides if I did hunt deer there, it would be a lot of work! It's a lot easier to kill a good deer out west than in the hardwood and pine thickets here at home...
Well I did my normal get ready stuff all summer long. Got feeders going, fixed up some ground blinds, put out cameras... This property was under water for about 9 of the 12 months since last year so wasn't sure what was still there. As it turned out, I think it was good for the deer. Not so many hogs and we were all seeing a lot more deer. Anyway, I made 4 sits and saw deer every sit the past couple weekends, just didn't see anything to shoot. Saturday morning, that all changed. I changed locations after pulling camera cards Friday afternoon. Had three different nice shooter bucks coming to three different locations so Saturday morning, I picked a ground blind that I thought would have a good wind and got settled in.
Daylight comes and it is very quiet. Feeder goes off and a lone nasty ol boar comes in and starts to chow down... he scarfed down most of the corn. He left after 9:00 and I checked my wind. It had changed and my air was drifting right toward the feeder. The buck I'd seen on camera had been showing up about every 3 days between 9 and 9:30. It was 9:18. I checked my Ozonics and it was still going strong. I had it over the window of the pop up I was in. I'd just thought to myself, "I'll be lucky to see him this morning with this slow moving drifting air going right toward the feeder." I'd decided to sit until 9:45 and call it a morning... at about 9:20, my target buck just walked out of the little thicket to the right of the feeder and straight to the feeder, put his head down and started eating... I got the camera going, picked up my bow and drew... The buck put his on side leg forward just the right amount. I let the shot go, and the Razor Trick found its mark. The buck lunged forward as my arrow stuck in a tree just beyond where the buck had stood only moments before. I looked at the arrow with my binoculars and it was covered in blood. I heard a pretty loud crash in the brush and felt pretty confident that was my buck.
I gave him a few minutes before climbing out of the blind. I walked to the edge of the little pipeline my stand was next to. There was PLENTY blood on the ground so I took up the trail only to look up and see him lying about 20 yards off the pipeline.
I was so excited. I was shaking like a leaf! This was the first deer I've killed in East Texas since 1979! He's no monster, but he's way above normal compared to all my other East Texas deer I've killed!
Well I did my normal get ready stuff all summer long. Got feeders going, fixed up some ground blinds, put out cameras... This property was under water for about 9 of the 12 months since last year so wasn't sure what was still there. As it turned out, I think it was good for the deer. Not so many hogs and we were all seeing a lot more deer. Anyway, I made 4 sits and saw deer every sit the past couple weekends, just didn't see anything to shoot. Saturday morning, that all changed. I changed locations after pulling camera cards Friday afternoon. Had three different nice shooter bucks coming to three different locations so Saturday morning, I picked a ground blind that I thought would have a good wind and got settled in.
Daylight comes and it is very quiet. Feeder goes off and a lone nasty ol boar comes in and starts to chow down... he scarfed down most of the corn. He left after 9:00 and I checked my wind. It had changed and my air was drifting right toward the feeder. The buck I'd seen on camera had been showing up about every 3 days between 9 and 9:30. It was 9:18. I checked my Ozonics and it was still going strong. I had it over the window of the pop up I was in. I'd just thought to myself, "I'll be lucky to see him this morning with this slow moving drifting air going right toward the feeder." I'd decided to sit until 9:45 and call it a morning... at about 9:20, my target buck just walked out of the little thicket to the right of the feeder and straight to the feeder, put his head down and started eating... I got the camera going, picked up my bow and drew... The buck put his on side leg forward just the right amount. I let the shot go, and the Razor Trick found its mark. The buck lunged forward as my arrow stuck in a tree just beyond where the buck had stood only moments before. I looked at the arrow with my binoculars and it was covered in blood. I heard a pretty loud crash in the brush and felt pretty confident that was my buck.
I gave him a few minutes before climbing out of the blind. I walked to the edge of the little pipeline my stand was next to. There was PLENTY blood on the ground so I took up the trail only to look up and see him lying about 20 yards off the pipeline.
I was so excited. I was shaking like a leaf! This was the first deer I've killed in East Texas since 1979! He's no monster, but he's way above normal compared to all my other East Texas deer I've killed!
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