Critter
Life Member
I know we've talked about it in the past, but I never thought I would ever find myself in a situation such as this one.
This morning I get a call from my mother-in-law telling me that one of our farmer neighbors is coming up to talk to me. I went outside to meet her, and when I saw her I could tell she was very excited about something. She gets out of the car and starts pointing back behind my house. She proceeds to tell me that there are two large bucks locked up on my property, right behind my back yard. I run inside and grab the camcorder and head for the treeline. Sure enough, there are two really nice bucks locked up together slowly making their way through the woods side by side. It looked as if the right side of one and the left side of the other were hooked, allowing the bucks to walk together almost hand in hand like. I got the camera rolling and started to film them. After a short distance they stopped and began to thrash about trying to free themselves. During the fighting, one of the bucks completely flipped the other through the air over himself, fortunately I had the camera still running and caught it on tape. I haven't studied the tape real closely, but it looked like a 160ish ten and a 130-140ish eight. So here was my dilema.......I haven't gun hunted since back in 2000, I didn't have a tag, and I didn't really want to shoot either of these deer with a gun the way they were. I decided to let them be for a bit and see if they separated. I watched them for 15 minutes or so from a distance so as to not stress them out any more than they already were. So......now what do ya do??? I decided go into town and get a tag. I figured if they were still in the same spot after being gone for 20 minutes, that they were probably locked up fairly well and weren't going to separate from each other. I'm not really sure what I would have done if they would would have been in the same spot when I got back, but fortunately for me they were gone. I combed my woods as well as the neighbors to make sure they hadn't just moved down the hill, but they were no where to be found. So, as I sit here writing this, the gunshots seem to be going off everywhere around my house. Hopefully they separated and are hiding out somewhere, I'd sure like to see them next bow-season.
This morning I get a call from my mother-in-law telling me that one of our farmer neighbors is coming up to talk to me. I went outside to meet her, and when I saw her I could tell she was very excited about something. She gets out of the car and starts pointing back behind my house. She proceeds to tell me that there are two large bucks locked up on my property, right behind my back yard. I run inside and grab the camcorder and head for the treeline. Sure enough, there are two really nice bucks locked up together slowly making their way through the woods side by side. It looked as if the right side of one and the left side of the other were hooked, allowing the bucks to walk together almost hand in hand like. I got the camera rolling and started to film them. After a short distance they stopped and began to thrash about trying to free themselves. During the fighting, one of the bucks completely flipped the other through the air over himself, fortunately I had the camera still running and caught it on tape. I haven't studied the tape real closely, but it looked like a 160ish ten and a 130-140ish eight. So here was my dilema.......I haven't gun hunted since back in 2000, I didn't have a tag, and I didn't really want to shoot either of these deer with a gun the way they were. I decided to let them be for a bit and see if they separated. I watched them for 15 minutes or so from a distance so as to not stress them out any more than they already were. So......now what do ya do??? I decided go into town and get a tag. I figured if they were still in the same spot after being gone for 20 minutes, that they were probably locked up fairly well and weren't going to separate from each other. I'm not really sure what I would have done if they would would have been in the same spot when I got back, but fortunately for me they were gone. I combed my woods as well as the neighbors to make sure they hadn't just moved down the hill, but they were no where to be found. So, as I sit here writing this, the gunshots seem to be going off everywhere around my house. Hopefully they separated and are hiding out somewhere, I'd sure like to see them next bow-season.
