POSSUM HUNTER
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We left out Friday for the big uns and well it was just that that we ran into.
Spotted a feild fri. eve till dark and made a game plan for an all day hunt sat.
Wake up to a dull sun that has shadows casted across the yard
decided to go and atleast see if they were in the feilds and they in very few numbers butt mostly the wind had them laid down.
we go back to eat and regroup and try the mid after noon style huning, so back out we head. Get up the straightest poplar i have seen in some time. Get situated and check shooting lanes. here is where it gets interesting! I have a few shots out in the feild @ 25 yards, next back in front of me i have shots from 5-30 yards with very little interuptions. To the left there is on ly 2 Shots about 3 yards and about 45 yards thru brush ( and with the wind it just wasnt an opion). Now to the left- about 20 yards there is a o;d fence (same property on the other side before i get scolded) corner post and a thicket behind that with 3 shooting lanes out to about 35 yards and one just to the left of the post that is about 37 yards.
30 minutes after we are situated, get a text that deer are moving and my buddy is going to rattle. I reply COOL, in the distance and very lightly i can hear him rattling. shortly there after i hear a squack start barking look up in the thicket and here he comes, not running, not scared just in that looking for the bucks queitlymode (remember that gun season was last week. he aproaches around the ridge top in the thicket moving very meaningful thruogh the brush as to catch movement of the bucks behind the rattling. it takes 10 minutes for him to come down the little rise and he is looking and feeding now.
For those fortunate enought to hunt Ohio will know that a when i say he had a big body is an understatement!!!! rough guess would be 320 live weight had never in my life seen a deer with a body that big in my life. HE WAS HUGE. now to the head gear, HEAVY White horns possibly 10 butt i quit looking when i decided he was a shooter. For several minutes he stayed behind a little growth or clump that covered the vital shots i was comfortable with then at once he moves forward and i think hes comming. I prepair for a shot at 25 yards and he keeps easing towards the opening, he is lip curling and a little snotting butt still quite. as i begin to draw he stops abruptly and peers towards me ( now i am thinking oh PISS he has seen me, several long seconds go by and he moves forward again, he moves in to a shooting lane and stops with hs head and sholder in the lane and stays there for several minutes untill turning directly away and not spooked but just like he had wasted his time moved back into his thicket.
as i hang my head, sit down becouse i am seriously tore up, thanks the lord i got to see an absolute monster by Ohio standards i kept getting texts with several different statements like
" can you see that buck "
" look up at the ridge "
i finally settled down and sent him back " yes, i saw him i will be down at two"
as i watch him leave across the ridge noticing that he was everything that i thought he was just trying to get a clue of size my as honest as i have ever been in my life
conservitive guess would be 165
get down at 2 and head outthe corner back to where my buddy is up a tree and he is down and waiting for me, we discuss the situation and he could see the buck coming down the hill and when he turned to go back towards the ridge top.
later that evening a feller that lives down the road from said farm is talking with me and my buddy says come look at these pics my wife took last week.
It was him
800 yards away from where i had seen him !!!!!!
as i was driving home yesterday couldnt help but think about him walking so perfectly right in and turning around to leave
I know that there are several folks and even my buddy said he would have shot butt didnt have a shot.
all in all had him at 27 yards for about 4 min. with 1 neck shot and he moved thru too fast to atempt that
thats the true UPS and DOWNS of hunting
first time in my life that i didnt shoot and felt good about it!
Spotted a feild fri. eve till dark and made a game plan for an all day hunt sat.
Wake up to a dull sun that has shadows casted across the yard
decided to go and atleast see if they were in the feilds and they in very few numbers butt mostly the wind had them laid down.
we go back to eat and regroup and try the mid after noon style huning, so back out we head. Get up the straightest poplar i have seen in some time. Get situated and check shooting lanes. here is where it gets interesting! I have a few shots out in the feild @ 25 yards, next back in front of me i have shots from 5-30 yards with very little interuptions. To the left there is on ly 2 Shots about 3 yards and about 45 yards thru brush ( and with the wind it just wasnt an opion). Now to the left- about 20 yards there is a o;d fence (same property on the other side before i get scolded) corner post and a thicket behind that with 3 shooting lanes out to about 35 yards and one just to the left of the post that is about 37 yards.
30 minutes after we are situated, get a text that deer are moving and my buddy is going to rattle. I reply COOL, in the distance and very lightly i can hear him rattling. shortly there after i hear a squack start barking look up in the thicket and here he comes, not running, not scared just in that looking for the bucks queitlymode (remember that gun season was last week. he aproaches around the ridge top in the thicket moving very meaningful thruogh the brush as to catch movement of the bucks behind the rattling. it takes 10 minutes for him to come down the little rise and he is looking and feeding now.
For those fortunate enought to hunt Ohio will know that a when i say he had a big body is an understatement!!!! rough guess would be 320 live weight had never in my life seen a deer with a body that big in my life. HE WAS HUGE. now to the head gear, HEAVY White horns possibly 10 butt i quit looking when i decided he was a shooter. For several minutes he stayed behind a little growth or clump that covered the vital shots i was comfortable with then at once he moves forward and i think hes comming. I prepair for a shot at 25 yards and he keeps easing towards the opening, he is lip curling and a little snotting butt still quite. as i begin to draw he stops abruptly and peers towards me ( now i am thinking oh PISS he has seen me, several long seconds go by and he moves forward again, he moves in to a shooting lane and stops with hs head and sholder in the lane and stays there for several minutes untill turning directly away and not spooked but just like he had wasted his time moved back into his thicket.
as i hang my head, sit down becouse i am seriously tore up, thanks the lord i got to see an absolute monster by Ohio standards i kept getting texts with several different statements like
" can you see that buck "
" look up at the ridge "
i finally settled down and sent him back " yes, i saw him i will be down at two"
as i watch him leave across the ridge noticing that he was everything that i thought he was just trying to get a clue of size my as honest as i have ever been in my life
conservitive guess would be 165
get down at 2 and head outthe corner back to where my buddy is up a tree and he is down and waiting for me, we discuss the situation and he could see the buck coming down the hill and when he turned to go back towards the ridge top.
later that evening a feller that lives down the road from said farm is talking with me and my buddy says come look at these pics my wife took last week.
It was him
800 yards away from where i had seen him !!!!!!as i was driving home yesterday couldnt help but think about him walking so perfectly right in and turning around to leave
I know that there are several folks and even my buddy said he would have shot butt didnt have a shot.
all in all had him at 27 yards for about 4 min. with 1 neck shot and he moved thru too fast to atempt that
thats the true UPS and DOWNS of hunting
first time in my life that i didnt shoot and felt good about it!
