Had the opportunity last weekend to head down to Duval County as a guest on a management hunt. Got in Thursday evening and headed out to pull cards. After spending a couple hours going through thousands of pictures, I found a nice deer that I wanted to target. Fast forward to Saturday evening and my deer made an appearance down a sendero at 250 yards. As we worked to get on him, it seemed like he would never step out from the does to offer a shot. Fifteen minutes of watching and light fading fast I got my opportunity. The shot rang out, sand flew and my deer ran off without a trace of any hit. Talk about disappointed....I was beyond mad at myself and knew I had blown my opportunity. I drowned my sorrows with a couple of stiff crown and sevens then called it an early night about 10:00.
Sunday morning found me back in the same stand hoping he might slip up once more. It was 7:30 with no movement when I finally had a small doe step into a sendero. It was like someone turned on the lights and within a few minutes, I had about ten deer and fifteen hogs on three of the senderos. Four does were feeding to my left and about five hundred yards up a pipelline a big bodied deer stepped out. I had hopes it was him but never imagined, it really could be. I watched him close the distance over avout twenty minutes to 215 yards. I gathered myself as best I could and squeezed off a round. My 308 hit it's mark and my deer was laying in the pipeline. The rest is history and I couldn't have been happier with his character. Great mature deer that weighed in at 210 pounds.
Sunday morning found me back in the same stand hoping he might slip up once more. It was 7:30 with no movement when I finally had a small doe step into a sendero. It was like someone turned on the lights and within a few minutes, I had about ten deer and fifteen hogs on three of the senderos. Four does were feeding to my left and about five hundred yards up a pipelline a big bodied deer stepped out. I had hopes it was him but never imagined, it really could be. I watched him close the distance over avout twenty minutes to 215 yards. I gathered myself as best I could and squeezed off a round. My 308 hit it's mark and my deer was laying in the pipeline. The rest is history and I couldn't have been happier with his character. Great mature deer that weighed in at 210 pounds.
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