Took my grandmother hunting the other day. To start off, that's not out of the ordinary. She is a stone cold deer killing machine. She has taken nearly 250 deer in her 40 years of hunting and one that sits safely in the SC record books. On 10-18-13 I took my grandmother to the land I manage and hunt with my father in law. Throughout her hunting career she has never taken a clean 10 pt and that is what she wanted. So I put her in a stand I had gotten pretty regular pictures of a decent 10 pt buck. At 7:45, while hunting a few hundred yards down the creek from her in a wooded bow stand, I hear a shot ring out. For the remainder of the hunt I didn't think it was her because it sounded farther off. Around 10 I went to pick up my cousin, who was also hunting. We both saw zero deer and figured the same would be in store for our grandma. As we pull up to her stand, I begin looking around at acorn trees to see how the nuts are falling and as I pan to the end of the secluded field, I see a white belly and a deers nose pointed straight to the sky. I frantically wave my cousin out of the truck and yell "buck down!". It was not until we reached the buck that we knew it was a very nice deer. She told us that she could never see the entire rack, but that she knew it was a good enough deer to shoot. And she never knew that it was a buck of this caliber until she laid her hands on him. He was dropped in a scrape, just below a licking branch. So here's to my grandma, 72 years young and still dropping big deer.
that is one of the coolest hunting stories I have read. Keep up the good work and give her a fist bump for me.!! lol take care and enjoy your time with her.
That sounds like a lot but SC has liberal seasons and bag limits. She has only in the last 10 or so years begun to manage and trophy hunt. Before that, anything that was legal would be shot. And with 4 doe tags a year and no limit on bucks, it's pretty easy to kill several deer. Also SC has plenty of deer to up her numbers. Not saying that just killing deer to kill them was her reasoning. Every deer she has shot she has either cooked herself or donated to hunters for the hungry.
