Freezer Fodder

[studabaka]

I guess this falls under 'Big Game'........

I was pressed for time this evening, but figured I could get a stand in for an hour or so. Jumped in my hunting duds and grabbed the 12 guage and a couple slugs. Walked [briskly] across the road and sat down in a small wooded draw between to harvested bean fields about 50 yards from a barn and coon dog kennel [no one actually lives there] and maybe 400 yards from my house. While I'm always hopeful, I applied my fishing technique [stuff always happens when your thinking about something else] and just watched the squirrels and birds and enjoyed a nice sunset........

Movement about 50 yards out caught my eye..... figured another squirrel, but here comes a little button buck. Must have been bedded in the thick on the edge of the field and walked back and forth in the woods a couple times. Not real big and thinking it was a doe, I drew up on it, but kept looking to see if others were with it.  It disappeared in a clump of cedars for a minute or two and I began to think I just blew an opportunity to get a little venison in the freezer. Started to lower my gun and here he comes back again. Just walking slow. Nose down then nose up. Waited until I had a clear sight on his chest [woods were kinda thick, but not real thick except in patches] and fired. He never went down and bolted down the draw toward the back bean field. I sat there for a couple minutes listening and wondering how a small deer like that would not drop [even if it got back up] after being hit in the chest with a 12 guage slug. Course I also wondered during those couple minutes if I had just plain missed him or a branch had deflected the shot, or....... I'm certainly no great shot, but even for me, missing a shot like that on a broad side, standing still, [albeit small] deer at 50 yards with a shotgun....naaa, couldn't be.

I got up and walked over to where he was standing and saw the blood and all seemed right in the world again. I made a bee line for the pine thicket I last saw him at and just inside the pines he lay in a heap, with still plenty of daylight to field dress and drag him up to where I could get the truck.

So, he ain't big, but he's hanging in my back yard and will soon be filling some of that empty space in my freezer.

[Bopeye]

Good eating right thar..........congratulations...

[fuzz624]

     The little ones taste the best anyway.Congrats and enjoy the freezer meat.

[Mallardsr]

Way to go !  Makes me want to break out the Italian dressing!

[FinsnFur]

  Made your bad day, good in a hurry didn't it? Good job Stu. 

[CCP]

Good story and good job on the deer. I missed your post some how sorry for the delay

Been eating on some doe meat all week with the boys good eaten