SaskGuy
Active Member
It has been a pretty tough season for me. Despite my very best efforts, lots of scouting diff't properties, trail cams, I have been unable to find a jaw dropping deer. I realize that eventually one is bound to show up on one or more of those properties during the course of November. What I also realize is that I will not be there when they do b/c I'll be at work or in a hockey rink with my kids. Knowing that I pulled the pin last night on a buck that I should maybe have let live.
But that is a moot point, b/c I didn't.:drink2: My kids have definately been chipped from the same stone as I and have been telling me to shoot a buck that they have been calling "double patches", because of his cape. Truthfully, I'm super happy they notice things like that.
Yesterday afternoon I went down to a friend's property and while walking in to set up I noticed a buck already on the edge of the timber, it appeared to be looking at me. I dropped down in to some high grass and brush and simply sat there on my knees. Eventually he became comfortable and out he walked. I then realized it was the buck the kids had been telling me I should shoot. B/C I had a video camera with me I was able to get some video of him feeding my way. I am not really sure how I got away with it as my set up wasn't even a set up of any kind. I believe he was slowly working his way over in an attempt to get downwind, which he would have in about 50 yards. I also knew that I needed to do one of two things and they were:
a) stand up and blow him out b/c there was no way I was going to have a successful hunt for the duration of the night set up where and how I was or
b) shoot him
I ended up sending a text home to ask for some advice on what to do. I think their faces show the answer.
But that is a moot point, b/c I didn't.:drink2: My kids have definately been chipped from the same stone as I and have been telling me to shoot a buck that they have been calling "double patches", because of his cape. Truthfully, I'm super happy they notice things like that.
Yesterday afternoon I went down to a friend's property and while walking in to set up I noticed a buck already on the edge of the timber, it appeared to be looking at me. I dropped down in to some high grass and brush and simply sat there on my knees. Eventually he became comfortable and out he walked. I then realized it was the buck the kids had been telling me I should shoot. B/C I had a video camera with me I was able to get some video of him feeding my way. I am not really sure how I got away with it as my set up wasn't even a set up of any kind. I believe he was slowly working his way over in an attempt to get downwind, which he would have in about 50 yards. I also knew that I needed to do one of two things and they were:
a) stand up and blow him out b/c there was no way I was going to have a successful hunt for the duration of the night set up where and how I was or
b) shoot him
I ended up sending a text home to ask for some advice on what to do. I think their faces show the answer.
