Deer
We headed back to one of our favorite spots for opening weekend youth hunt. Decided to wait until shooting light to leave the truck so we could spot on our way in. In the past we had bumped deer getting to our glassing spot. 1/4 mi from the truck and in some spotty fog we see a buck skyline so we move up to a better vantage to set up.
Fog is heavy now so about 8am we move to our glassing knob. When we get there the fog is burning off and we catch two does walking a fence line, while watching them we see a nice 8 in velvet with another smaller hard horn buck. June decides the velvet deer is what she wants so we backtrack get the wind right and ease up over a knoll. We find them at 275 yrds but they are just cresting the next hill, we move around that hill and relocate now at 225 and with another buck. This one is Much bigger and in hard horn, velvet can wait. The buck was facing straight away so no shot, had to watch them crest the hill out of sight. Fortunately, no deer had caught us and we were able to move again. This time as we rounded the hill we find the deer milling around at just over 100 yrds.
We both belly crawl up to a point we can get a shot from. When we finally get set up the small buck is blocking the shot. For what seemed like forever and without the deer aware we were there the small buck finally moved to give June a shot. The buck kicked, spun down hill, and was done. June had just made her first successful spot and stalk on the biggest deer of her life! I can’t tell you how grateful I am to get to hunt places like this. Thank you again, Nick
Exciting story thanks for sharing. Great job once again!
