Deer Season 2015 Part 2

Deer Season Part 2

Thursday morning I got into my stand after a little detour and got comfortable for waiting to see what the morning had in store for me. It was just about daylight when a small doe and a couple of buck moved in about 60 yards to the west. I watched them hoover up acorns for about 45 minutes and then moved on to the north east. it was fun to watch them and made for a more interesting morning than not seeing anything. About 10:30am I decided to head back to the house to warm up and get a bite to eat. The afternoon hunt, I walked down to the stand about 1:30pm. I sat without seeing much until about 3pm, 3 does and a buck moved in from the south west. The sun was setting making it hard to make out a lot of detail. Slowly they started to move my way. The lead doe moved to my north west and when she moved behind a tree I positioned to get a look at her in my scope. When she came out from behind the tree she must have spotted the change in my position because she locked in on me. I could see her vitals but there was some brush in the way and I wanted a nice clear shot. I waited for her to make another step and clear the lane for the possibility of a clean quartering toward shot. I squeezed of the round and send the 12 gauge Hornaday slug down range and she wheeled around to run. I noticed a dark area back on her left flank and I initially thought I might have hit her far back. As I watched her run I thought it was a gut shot but within a few strides her body became lower and she ran into a small tree stopping her momentum and my decision to try a second shot not necessary. She keep moving south west and disappeared behind a tree and that was the last I saw of her until I walk to where I last saw her. She maybe went 20 yards on the other side of the tree and was done. The shot entered high on her right should, took out both lungs, liver and exited her left flank. With this my 2015 deer season was done. I had a great season and we will have a lot of venison in the freezer this winter.