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Title: Buttons
Post by: Spike on October 02, 2012, 07:17:07 PM
Yesterday evening me and my dad went out hunting for deer, mainly for buck. We drove about a half an hour to get to the spot. It took us a bit to get our selves situated, but we got up in the stand around 5:00-5:15. About an hour into the hunt we saw a six point on the other side of the woods. It wan't that big and I truthfully would have passed it up. About another half an hour went by and we herd what we thought was a hunter calling a fawn bleat. It did it about 2-3 times and then it stopped. Then about 5-10 minutes later we herd it about half as far from us. We thought for sure it was a hunter until we saw the deer's body. It started quartering away about 70 yards and kind of turned toward us. We saw it starting to come on the trail to our left. Once it got on the trail it started into a trot. Right as it started leaping I pulled back my bow and I made a grunt/bleat sound right when it got into a shooting lane. While dad was messing with the video camera I took the shot. It looked like a perfect shot and it headed up into the thicket. We couldn't see it after it ran 60 yards. We thought we herd it crash just out of sight. Sure enough when we got down, there he was laying right off to the side of the trail. Here's a pic. he was a button buck.
(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/daveandbarb2/IMG_0662.jpg)
       
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: coyote101 on October 02, 2012, 07:32:26 PM
Dante you are quite the hunter.  :highclap: :highclap: Congratulations on another successful hunt young man, you should be very proud of yourself.  :congrats: :congrats:

Pat
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: riverboss on October 02, 2012, 07:43:03 PM
Wow!! when i was your age the biggest thing i had killed was a groundhogg. Your dad must be very proud of your accomplishments. :yoyo: :yoyo:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: nastygunz on October 02, 2012, 07:56:45 PM
Hes a hunting fishing machine wowzer!
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: FinsnFur on October 02, 2012, 09:08:11 PM
Button Buffet :yoyo: Thats going to be one of the best eating deer you've ever had son. I can almost promise you.
Nice

That played that out so perfectly :congrats: Nice work and thanks for sharing it with us.
Did your Dad ever get the camera running? :doh2: :laf:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: code on October 02, 2012, 09:20:56 PM
Congrats that will be some great eating. :highclap:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: slagmaker on October 02, 2012, 09:50:01 PM
congrats on the meat on the ground and for the excellent wright up.
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Okanagan on October 02, 2012, 10:36:30 PM
Excellent!  Good hunting, good decisions made in the stress of the moment, excellent shooting, a fine hunt all around.  Good for you!


Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Dave on October 03, 2012, 04:25:03 AM
Quote from: FinsnFur on October 02, 2012, 09:08:11 PM
Did your Dad ever get the camera running? :doh2: :laf:
I did cough the ball up with with the camera, but I recovered the fumble with some lost yardage.  When we finally saw it was a deer and not some bozo blowing on a call, I scrambled to get the camera rolling.  I thought I had pushed in the record button and this thing kicked it into high gear on the trail.  I noticed the green "STBY" flashing and realized I didn't push in the button all the way.   :doh2:  Dante is coming to full draw, the deeer is almost in his shooting lane and I'm trying to find the dang record button.  Dante froze him in his tracks with his 'Bwaaa'-ing just as I depressed the record button.  The first frame of the recording shows the deer standing semi-relaxed with the arrow just hitting the mark.  And I have since really messed up on it trying to figure out how to download the thing onto a computer.  I now only have about 1-1/2 seconds of video.  :doh2: :doh2: :doh2: (If I could hit myself harder, I would)
Well if I figure it out I'll post it.   Maybe as a series of single frame pics.
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Carolina Coyote on October 03, 2012, 06:07:47 AM
Boy what a good shot right through the boiler room, way to go young man.  :highclap: cc
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: HuntnCarve on October 03, 2012, 08:11:16 AM
I was wondering when I was going to see this posted.  Way to go Dante!  Probably a good idea to cut your Dad some slack on the camera situation.  :doh2: We've all been there and done that.  The important thing is that he was there beside you.  I bet he was excited as you were.   :congrats:
As always, thanks for the adventure and taking us along. :wink:

Dave
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: FOsteology on October 03, 2012, 01:35:53 PM
Congrats Dante! Good shot. That's going to make for some fine eating.
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Hidehunter on October 03, 2012, 02:14:15 PM
AWESOME Dante...he will be delicious!!  Great shot!!  I havent put any meat in the freezer yet...Do you give lessons?
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: HaMeR on October 03, 2012, 05:01:48 PM
Well done Dante!!  :yoyo: :yoyo:


:confused:  Nice try Mike??!!  :shrug: :biggrin: :biggrin:


:alscalls: :alscalls:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Hawks Feather on October 03, 2012, 06:29:58 PM
Nice shot!

Jerry
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: FinsnFur on October 03, 2012, 10:19:47 PM
Dave :laf:
10-4 on the lost yardage  :alscalls:
You'll get it.
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: weedwalker on October 04, 2012, 06:41:26 AM
Great shot Dante!! Way to go!! :highclap: :highclap:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Okanagan on October 04, 2012, 07:24:47 PM
These young bow hunters are making the rest of us look bad!   :highclap:


Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: Frogman on October 05, 2012, 02:50:21 PM
WTG!!  Good shooting!

Jim
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: nailbender on October 06, 2012, 09:43:27 PM
  Nice shootin' Spike!   :highclap:  Probably a good call not waiting for the old man to figure out the camera! :laf:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: coyotehunter_1 on October 07, 2012, 06:18:44 AM
:highclap: Congratulations and thanks for sharing your hunt with us, well done  :congrats:
Title: Re: Buttons
Post by: code on October 09, 2012, 10:53:14 AM
So did you gut and skin it out yourself. :eyebrow: