I have to wonder although I think I know why I was invited down. Basically it was to find, drag and then process deer. Not my own of course. No sooner was Matt in his stand and he had a doe and not just any doe arrowed. He arrowed queen B matriarch of all does. As I sat on the highway listening to traffic (video later) I not only didn't hear Matt shoot his ultra quiet Admiral, I didn't hear the doe literally run into the corn 20 yards behind me after he arrowed it. I did however hear a ruckus under me only to turn and see one of the big bucks we were after jump up, two leaps and disappear not 15 yards away from me. He either was bedded there the whole time when I walked in and climbed up or he came down through because of Matt's doe. Either way, I saw a split second of tail and large rack in his two leaps. I saw one other deer right at dark thirty. I didn't take the shot due to not knowing if it were a button but I digress. The text came through, Matt nailed one. A couple hours later, Tim's text came through, he nailed one too. Not 5 minutes passed when I heard Ben shoot. I could see Ben so I threw up the binos and he gives me a smile and a thumbs up. Now, there poor Rob sits deerless. 10 minutes might have passed and I heard some crashing down below me. I glassed the area and saw brush moving but nothing more. I wondered if it were Ben's deer. We all met back at truck and formed a plan. I were to go with Matt for his recovery, Ben and Tim went after Ben's. Matt and I had a very easy blood trail but we ended up traveling about 100 yards into and through a corn field when we heard a deer go. Now this was 3 hours later. We continued on the trail but alas, it wasn't far. Ben and Tim caught up to us by now saying it's bad news on Ben's deer. I highly doubted that as I thought for sure the crash I heard was his deer but they found guts on the ground. It's been 4 hours so I said let's go to where I saw that ruckus, I know exactly where that is. We walk down, I walk in and say. Here she is. He entered back and exited the shoulder, full length perfectly smoked! As Matt and Ben field dressed her, Tim and I headed for his deer. There was zero blood and that actually became evident of the plugged hit. His deer was down in seconds but didn't bleed. We followed roughed up leaves and trail and Tim came upon her not 40 yards. Tim's was the only one with milk, we figured a 1.5 year old. Ben's was much bigger and dry, probably a 3.5 because Matt's dwarfed them all and she was dry as well. We took a lower jaw to see but we figured 5.5 plus. Back at Wild Outfitters as we call it now. And I got my pouting ass in there. Seriously, we are having a blast. We have all 3 process, bagged and on ice and we're having lunch and then we're cleaning up and heading out again. Tim thinks I'll have a sure thing this afternoon, one of them might film me, I don't know but I have interesting footage from my sit yesterday and this am. No deer but interesting.
Thats just simply awesome guys Those pics are priceless. Poor poor Rob :d need a hug buddy?? loved the wright up!!! congrats to all!
Awesome story!! Congrats to all of you. And chin up Rob... at least your um... there for moral support.
LOL Diesel77, I'll take that second. Here's the short video of my sit. No animals but what I endured for the eve and morn sit. Wild's Suburban Deer Hunting Video.
Rob - nice vid but you really need to clean your lens! :D Oh, and that looks a lot like where I hunt. Houses on one side, constant din of traffic on the highway on the other two. Dogs parking, horns honking, kids screaming and playing in the park, and me sitting in a tree wondering why I was cursed with this bowhunting addiction without a good place to hunt. Gotta love it!
LOL I noticed that immediately and it didn't come apparent until I shot directly into the sun like that. OOOPS>
Me too, mt home stand is a lot like that. How I look forward to the next time I'm out in NW IL nov6-Nov10 where all you hear are cows and corn harvesters. At least the traffic has a sooting effect, I hate cows!
