Deer Hunt 2010

I finally drew a southern unit deer hunt. I was fornunate to have access to some private land to hunt on. It was the first time in a long time I had gone camping and done the deer hunt thing like the old times. My brothers and dad camped and myself, my brother, his son, and some other family went hunting. It snowed a couple of inches the evening before and that was a good thing. We woke up early, waited for some daylight and started pushing. We we all met up, bucks were all around us. We all saw some good deer and I was able to get two shots off at a nice four point. The first shot the deer was on the run, so I didn't feel to bad about that one. The second shot I just missed. I was so mad that I had missed that opportunity. We planned some more and started hunting. After an hour I was certain I had missed my opportunity for that day. Just before we met up again, I saw some horns on the horizion. It was a two point. I asked my cousins if any of them wanted to shoot it and they didn't (They both ended up shooting bigger bucks). I let one fly and I thought I saw it drop to its knees. When we got up there, the deer was gone. I started walking around saying I hit it. My brother and cousin were behind me and the deer was circling. They saw it and it was hobbling around. We finished it off and I had my buck.

I shot the deer a long ways from a road, so me and my cousin drug him about an hour and a half to a road. It was a lot of work, but definately worth it. The next day my cousin shot a deer in the same area and drug it on the same trail I had drug my buck. While he was dragging it he noticed lion tracks in the snow. The lion was tracking my deer's blood trail from the day before.