steveOh
11-28-2007, 04:27 PM
Here is the story taken from my website...
Today was opening day of the shotgun season for deer here in Ohio. Piff and I put away our arrow slingers and grabbed our shotguns and headed down to Adams Co. to try our luck. It was a rainy, soggy, cold and dreary day. After donning our rain gear we sloshed our way to two different stand sights; Piff in his ground blind in the bottom of the pasture, mine, a ladder stand in the south end of a woodlot.
The morning activity was slow for the both of us to say the least. The only movement was the 6-8 cows that we seem to always attract. I was beginning to wonder what compels a grown man to get up at 3:00 and drive for an hour and a half just to climb 15 feet up in a tree and sit in the rain! I was getting cold and wetter by the minute. Sometime after 9:00 I stood up and wrung out my soggy gloves, and repositioned myself in the stand. While fidgeting around I looked to my left through the gray haze out into the grassy field behind me when something about the cover along a ditch didn’t look right. I focused more on the area and thought I could make out a white muzzle and a black nose of a deer! I then slowly shouldered my slug gun and looked through the cloudy scope. It was a buck and he was looking right at me!
I could see that he was a good size buck that had main beams that wrapped around and almost touched. He finally lowered his head and began to slowly walk the edge of the cover. He was getting closer to me but was moving from my right to left as I was looking behind the tree. Soon he would be directly behind the tree and I knew that once he got on the other side that I wouldn’t have a shot at him because of a large oak tree that was there. I had to kneel down in the stand and lean out to the right to get a shot. It was now or never! When he came into view through the branches of my tree I pulled the trigger. My first thought was that I rushed the shot. At the report of the shotgun he reared up on his hind legs and fell into the ditch.
I waited a few minutes to see if he would run out. I then waited for the rain to pick up and used the noise to slowly descend from my stand. I crawled under the barbed wire fence and eased over to the ditch, gun at-the-ready. There he was, dead, not too far from where he was when I shot him! He was hit in the neck which confirms that I did rush the shot. We field-dressed him and called it a day. Both of us were soaked and the rain was not supposed to let up until after dark. We headed home to dry out and planned on coming back in the morning.
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Upon observation the buck has seven points. One of his brow tines had been broken earlier while the second tine on his long left beam has a recent break near the base. Both main beams are over 24 ½ inches long. The tips of the main beams hook in and are about 1 5/8 inches apart. The first tine on the left beam is around 8 ½ inches while the one on the right is over 10 ½ inches. The inside spread is 16 inches.
steveOh
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Today was opening day of the shotgun season for deer here in Ohio. Piff and I put away our arrow slingers and grabbed our shotguns and headed down to Adams Co. to try our luck. It was a rainy, soggy, cold and dreary day. After donning our rain gear we sloshed our way to two different stand sights; Piff in his ground blind in the bottom of the pasture, mine, a ladder stand in the south end of a woodlot.
The morning activity was slow for the both of us to say the least. The only movement was the 6-8 cows that we seem to always attract. I was beginning to wonder what compels a grown man to get up at 3:00 and drive for an hour and a half just to climb 15 feet up in a tree and sit in the rain! I was getting cold and wetter by the minute. Sometime after 9:00 I stood up and wrung out my soggy gloves, and repositioned myself in the stand. While fidgeting around I looked to my left through the gray haze out into the grassy field behind me when something about the cover along a ditch didn’t look right. I focused more on the area and thought I could make out a white muzzle and a black nose of a deer! I then slowly shouldered my slug gun and looked through the cloudy scope. It was a buck and he was looking right at me!
I could see that he was a good size buck that had main beams that wrapped around and almost touched. He finally lowered his head and began to slowly walk the edge of the cover. He was getting closer to me but was moving from my right to left as I was looking behind the tree. Soon he would be directly behind the tree and I knew that once he got on the other side that I wouldn’t have a shot at him because of a large oak tree that was there. I had to kneel down in the stand and lean out to the right to get a shot. It was now or never! When he came into view through the branches of my tree I pulled the trigger. My first thought was that I rushed the shot. At the report of the shotgun he reared up on his hind legs and fell into the ditch.
I waited a few minutes to see if he would run out. I then waited for the rain to pick up and used the noise to slowly descend from my stand. I crawled under the barbed wire fence and eased over to the ditch, gun at-the-ready. There he was, dead, not too far from where he was when I shot him! He was hit in the neck which confirms that I did rush the shot. We field-dressed him and called it a day. Both of us were soaked and the rain was not supposed to let up until after dark. We headed home to dry out and planned on coming back in the morning.
http://www.geocities.com/stymiejr/CorleyBuck07-1-640.jpg
Upon observation the buck has seven points. One of his brow tines had been broken earlier while the second tine on his long left beam has a recent break near the base. Both main beams are over 24 ½ inches long. The tips of the main beams hook in and are about 1 5/8 inches apart. The first tine on the left beam is around 8 ½ inches while the one on the right is over 10 ½ inches. The inside spread is 16 inches.
steveOh
http://www.geocities.com/stymiejr/CorleyBuck07BackofRack300.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/stymiejr/CorleyBuck07-3-510.jpg