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Here are some photos for you guys to look at. I will edit this later(forgot a dinner engagement [Eek!] ) to include the story which needs to be told. Sorry about photo quality, I was shaking in the 11 degree garage! Feel free to throw a few questions out there.
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Posts: 627 | Location: Niceville, Florida | Registered: 12 April 2001Reply With Quote
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Looks like you have figured out how to hunt that area. 4 deer in one day! Kind of kills the rest of the day dressing and skinning though don't it? [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]

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Posts: 1638 | Location: Colorado by birth, Navy by choice | Registered: 04 February 2001Reply With Quote
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Carnivore, way to go! I like that ambush spot.
good spot catch them coming and going. Plenty
of meat for your frezer.
 
Posts: 493 | Location: GEORGIA, U.S.A. | Registered: 28 April 2002Reply With Quote
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Ok here it goes.
I figued out that I had time to go to Wisconsin and hunt the Thursday before opening day, which was Saturday. I threw my tupperware totes containing my hunting gear in the back of my truck and grabbed old faithful out of the safe. After a thorough cleaning I grabbed a box of handloads and went to a clay pit on the way out of the state! Five rounds later, it was still on. No flames please as I had put a couple of hundred down range this summer. Twenty one hours later I was in Dodgeville Wisconsin.
I stopped by the DNR office to buy my tag not knowing any of the weird regs yet because of the CWD thing. They issued me four antlerless tags and told me that I had to have a registered doe before I was allowed to shoot a buck. I found out I was in a CWD management zone. That meant that there were no cases of CWD near me but they wanted the population density reduced to around ten per square mile. I immediately went to the woods to clear a noisless path to my rock. I did it as quickly and as quietly as possible and got out of the woods. At this point I had been awake for 32 hours straight. I got all of my gear laid out for the morning and went to find a watering hole. A few ice cold beers later I was ready for bed.
Four a.m. came pretty quick and I got to my rock well before daylight. There wasn't a cloud in the sky which was bad for me because it gives the deer a head start to the bedding areas. The bucks are always the first through on mornings like this. I could hear them moving through the dried leaves and thought I was sunk. At the greyest hour of the morning I saw a couple of deer moving past me. The white of BIG BONE was literally glowing in the moonlight/false dawn. I shouldered the rifle and could barely make out the huge rack and white butt in the scope but nothing in between, it was too brushy and I couldn't find a body. I didn't shoot. No good target and I didn't have a doe. The sun slowly made it up high enough to light my little valley and there were does all around me. I was glassing for the buck and I saw him get up from a huge tangle of oak tops that had been busted off in a storm. Still no shot and still no doe. I put the crosshairs in an opening and saw him as he quickly moved through it. He was a good 170, 180 class buck. Never had a clean shot. I watched him top out on the finger ridge and knew he was going for sanctuary on the next piece over. I looked for the biggest doe found her and anchored her on the spot. Deer were running everywhere and I let them all go. I didn't want to get down because I stood a good chance of the dirtbag trespassers running a quick drive through sanctuary and pushing the big boy to me. No deer and no shooting for the next twenty minutes. Then a little doe came sneaking down the logging road. It stopped to smell the big one and just walked away. I waited till she was right below me and took her straight down through the neck. Shortly after that another pair of old baldies came sneaking through the thorns, hit the logging road, sniffed the first one shot, and just continued walking away. I hammered them both. I think the height of my stand confuses them as to the direction from which the noise comes. It was starting to warm up so I had to attend to my deer. It made for a long day. I had to dress them and then drag each of them about 3/4 of a mile to the nearest point where I could get my truck. When I registered them the DNR took all of their heads so they could be tested for CWD. I let them hang for a couple of days and then a few of us got togeather and did all of our deer in one night. We started cutting at four in the afternoon and got done with the last one at three in the morning. Everything was wrapped labeled and ready to freeze. We managed to fill a twenty gallon trash can with empty beer cans too. [Eek!] As it stands no one has tagged the big boy yet. If he is still out there December 19th I am going to drive back and try to take him in the late management season.

Location and deer photos... My stand area

Photos of ballistic tip exits. These are graphic and will only be posted for a couple of days as to not offend anyone.
Exits1,2,3,
 
Posts: 627 | Location: Niceville, Florida | Registered: 12 April 2001Reply With Quote
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Ballistic tip exit photos are now gone, but feel free to look at the rest.
 
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