Iowagiants90
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After shooting my bow buck i had a decision to make! what gun season to hunt, 1st,2nd or late muzz! with the 2 weekends to hunt and the late December early late Jan skiing trip i had lined up it was 2nd gun i would choose! knowing that the first weekend i would have rights to hunt a awesome farm i new my chances were good! the first Saturday I hunted in the evening on a cut cornfield that had winter wheat drilled in it! Around 4:30 the first deer stepped out a group of a few does and a nice 140s inch 10 around 400 to 500 yards down! they soon grazed a crossed the field and headed down to the creek! knowing that was happening and it was the first night on the farm i stayed put in my make-shift cedar blind! after that around 4:50 or so another group of deer popped out of the crp,this time 3 bucks the biggest being a 160 inch 8 and 2 130 inch bucks! the 8 was def a shooter for me! they came out the same trail the first group had came out on, thinking in my head i will be closer to that trail as those deer did the same as the first group! Making it even worse a fawn came out on the same trail following here was a 180in + ten that was nose to the ground on the fawn right down to the creek! my heart sank a world class ten that was just out of distance! knowing that i had 1 more night to sit on the farm i around 100 yards of the trail they were entering the field i was very windy and the conditions were just not right for deer to be feeding in open field! mother nature had won this one only seeing 2 fawns come out on the trail that evening! that wraps the first weekend up! i hunted every evening during the week with know luck so Friday night i thought i would get out early and try to scout! i had found where all my deer were on my farm! there was a group of 40 deer that were hitting a turnip plot i had planted in the late summer! so on Saturday night that's where i sat! it wasn't in tell 5 pm before i seen the first deer, and they were coming fast! there was 3 does and 4 bucks out in the field when a mature buck stepped out with low light because of the cloud cover and time i put my scope up and knew he was a shooter! ranged him at 170 yards raised my gun and squeezed it off! He did the rodeo kick hit his chest on the ground and took off like a rocket, he was hit hard! i followed blood in-tell the neighbors fence and decided to come back tomorrow with the landowners approval that i could track him! we got back down at the farm at around 1 to ask the landowner where he had went into after the shot! while asking him to let me track my deer he had told me this morning that him and his wife had seen a big buck walk a crossed his driveway hobbling on three legs from where the woodlot he had went into the night before! my heart sank i knew it was my buck! After tracking him for a couple hours it seemed to me he was still alive! Its hard knowing that he has a broken shoulder going into the winter and knowing coyotes will probably get him! i guess the hunting Gods wernt with me this gun season! i guess im still asking myself after drilling him in the shoulder with a 50 cal. muzz how is he not dead! anyone have a situation like this! i need feedback! thanks
