chummer
5 year old buck +
I managed to pull my season out of the crapper today. After 6 weekends of only seeing two deer I decided to hunt the opener of our southern tier shotgun season behind my house. I have a stand a couple hundred yards behind my house which I had not sat in yet this year. This is a 60 acre lot that sits between developments. It holds a lot of deer until gun season opens then they move to bigger grounds. It has a lot of hunting on the other side. I was shooting the first thing bigger than a fawn that came by. I was pleased to cross four sets of fresh tracks on the way to my stand. I was sitting for 5 minutes when this guy came by. 50 yard shot and a 200 yard drag. Of coarse this prompts my wife to say "I guess you don't need to hunt at camp any more". I know most on here wouldn't shoot this deer but he is a trophy to me, and a tasty one at that. My pup wanted in the pic. I let her trail the drag marks through the yard.