- Jun 9, 2013
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I'm sure someone here will know instantly… but here's a weird story I'll come up short on to see how long it takes for someone to figure out… it was a first for me!
It was opening day gun deer season in MI. My lifetime buddy Kevin and I were out into our favorite spots early. I was hunting the inside corner of some woods. A large tall grass field was behind me. Just inside the woods was a thick marsh of about 10 acres. This marsh was about 30yds. inside the woods. My buddy was hunting the other side of this marsh maybe 200yds. from me as the crow flies. There was about 3" of fresh snow… PERFECT! The evening before I took a 6pt. with my bow in almost the same spot I was in now. 20 minutes after daybreak I just happened to look behind me out into the tall grass field. And there was a nice buck slowly walking across the field about 70-80yds.out quartering toward me. All I could see was his rack, head and upper front shoulder. When he got about 50yds. away he changed directions and was now broadside but he started to gently hop toward the woods. Just as he was about to enter the woods and head for the marsh I shot. I was using a 20 gage auto shotgun with a rifled slug and scope. The deer collapsed instantly. Then it got up and started to run/hop along the woods toward me. I was thinking hell ya!!!!! When it was about 30yds. from me it collapsed and didn't move a muscle. I was geeked… As I was walking up to the deer my buddy shot from the other side of marsh. I just finished walking up to my deer and was looking at it when Kevin called me on the little radio's we had. He said if I could hurry to the North end of the marsh and head off the buck he shot before it gets to the fields. So I did…. I had my deer down. I just got to the North end and I saw his deer down within the woods. After he got there we high fived and swapped stories. Then he tagged, field dressed his and we drug his deer around to where mine was. We got about 20yds. from my deer and we saw its head rise up. So I ran up to it while it was trying to get back up and shot it in the neck. We both just stood there looking at each other and the deer. I couldn't believe it. The deer was lying on the side I shot at so we rolled it over to see where I hit it. We saw nothing. Not a mark. So we rolled it back over to really check the other side. Not a mark. The only mark on this deer was the hole in its neck from point blank range. We checked the head, neck, body… EVERYWHERE to see what brought this deer down and found nothing. It was a large 10 pt. buck and field dressed at 195. We figured it out 30 minutes later….. Any ideas folks?..... Brad
It was opening day gun deer season in MI. My lifetime buddy Kevin and I were out into our favorite spots early. I was hunting the inside corner of some woods. A large tall grass field was behind me. Just inside the woods was a thick marsh of about 10 acres. This marsh was about 30yds. inside the woods. My buddy was hunting the other side of this marsh maybe 200yds. from me as the crow flies. There was about 3" of fresh snow… PERFECT! The evening before I took a 6pt. with my bow in almost the same spot I was in now. 20 minutes after daybreak I just happened to look behind me out into the tall grass field. And there was a nice buck slowly walking across the field about 70-80yds.out quartering toward me. All I could see was his rack, head and upper front shoulder. When he got about 50yds. away he changed directions and was now broadside but he started to gently hop toward the woods. Just as he was about to enter the woods and head for the marsh I shot. I was using a 20 gage auto shotgun with a rifled slug and scope. The deer collapsed instantly. Then it got up and started to run/hop along the woods toward me. I was thinking hell ya!!!!! When it was about 30yds. from me it collapsed and didn't move a muscle. I was geeked… As I was walking up to the deer my buddy shot from the other side of marsh. I just finished walking up to my deer and was looking at it when Kevin called me on the little radio's we had. He said if I could hurry to the North end of the marsh and head off the buck he shot before it gets to the fields. So I did…. I had my deer down. I just got to the North end and I saw his deer down within the woods. After he got there we high fived and swapped stories. Then he tagged, field dressed his and we drug his deer around to where mine was. We got about 20yds. from my deer and we saw its head rise up. So I ran up to it while it was trying to get back up and shot it in the neck. We both just stood there looking at each other and the deer. I couldn't believe it. The deer was lying on the side I shot at so we rolled it over to see where I hit it. We saw nothing. Not a mark. So we rolled it back over to really check the other side. Not a mark. The only mark on this deer was the hole in its neck from point blank range. We checked the head, neck, body… EVERYWHERE to see what brought this deer down and found nothing. It was a large 10 pt. buck and field dressed at 195. We figured it out 30 minutes later….. Any ideas folks?..... Brad
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