BW
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You know it's getting pretty bad when one hunter will falsely claim another hunters deer. I was headed down south the last weekend of the antlerless season and was itching to try out a new rifle I bought last summer. I picked up one of the last Winchester M-70 LA .300's. I had the perfect sniping spot in an old abandoned limestone quarry. Six does tried to cut across at about 300 yards and I settled in on the lead doe and fired. I looked up to see what looked like 6 mice running back to the timber. Having never shot that far before I figured I could have missed so I sat for a bit and picked up all the fillings from my teeth. Not 5 minutes after I shot, I see a bobcat strolling across the side of the quarry and it slipped into the timber not far from where the deer had entered. It was really neat to see it. I wondered if it was smart enough to relate a gunshot to food opportunity. It was evidently smarter than I was. I sat for about 30 more minutes before hiking across the quarry to check the trail. I found evidence of a good hit and the deer not far up the trail. As I aproached the carcass, I could see loose hair. That little scumbag had ate about 2 pounds of meat out of the rear end of the doe and very carefully tried to cover the rest of the carcass with snow, sticks and leaves. That was a first for me. Made the hunt extra special.
