Our opening weekend
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:08 pm
Micelle has always wanted to kill a fox, but she is never with me when we call one in. Well it was the day before deer season and my buddy Randy came out to hunt predators. Michelle was supposed to go, but something came up and she couldn’t. I told her we were sure to call in a fox I just had a feeling. AS we set up to make the first calling I told Randy I had a fox feeling. Well you guessed it 3.5 minutes in Randy shot a fox! We set up to make another stand a 1/4 mile away and I told Randy if we called another we should leave it for Michelle to kill later on. Well at the 5 minute mark we had another fox standing 15 yards from us staring at the Firestorm. We let it go after filming it. We made a dry stand and met Michelle to finish the day. We made another dry stand, were going to the next stand and I spotted a good buck right were I shot my buck last year. He didn’t hang around long. We called at the last stand till we couldn’t see anymore. We had gotten up to leave and I spotted something. It was a bobcat! Michelle grabbed her 7mm mag instead of the .243 and made the only shot she had, a head shot! Let me tell you it wasn’t pretty! Be sure and follow the link to see how deer season started the next morning.
Well you ever have one of those days that nothing seems to be going right and then you have one of the best hunts ever? That was today opening day of Texas deer season. We stayed out late hunting predators and got to bed around 2 am. When I got up the temps were in the low 30’s, Michelle has been fighting a nasty cold and decided not to take a chance of getting really sick. So I headed out. I was going to park on a long power line watching the crossing where I shot my buck last year and where I saw the buck yesterday. I was just going to wait till good light and then ease around and do some rattling. Well I turned the truck a little sooner than usual and hit high center! There was no getting it of the hump without someone to pull me. I thought , well I was going to watch this spot anyway. So I stayed put. I saw a few does, but not much else. I called my buddy who I knew should be heading towards town and he was close by where I was. As I was giving his wife directions, I saw a buck cross where the does had crossed. I thought I better get a better look so I told her to hang on. It was a buck I had passed on last year hoping he would be bigger this year. I told my friend I’d call her back. I had to run down the hill and across the creek to get a 150 yard shot. I rested the Icon on huge pile of rocks and took the only shot I was going to get with weeds as tall as they were. I made a good neck shot and down he went. He’s not the biggest buck in the world, but he has character.
Well you ever have one of those days that nothing seems to be going right and then you have one of the best hunts ever? That was today opening day of Texas deer season. We stayed out late hunting predators and got to bed around 2 am. When I got up the temps were in the low 30’s, Michelle has been fighting a nasty cold and decided not to take a chance of getting really sick. So I headed out. I was going to park on a long power line watching the crossing where I shot my buck last year and where I saw the buck yesterday. I was just going to wait till good light and then ease around and do some rattling. Well I turned the truck a little sooner than usual and hit high center! There was no getting it of the hump without someone to pull me. I thought , well I was going to watch this spot anyway. So I stayed put. I saw a few does, but not much else. I called my buddy who I knew should be heading towards town and he was close by where I was. As I was giving his wife directions, I saw a buck cross where the does had crossed. I thought I better get a better look so I told her to hang on. It was a buck I had passed on last year hoping he would be bigger this year. I told my friend I’d call her back. I had to run down the hill and across the creek to get a 150 yard shot. I rested the Icon on huge pile of rocks and took the only shot I was going to get with weeds as tall as they were. I made a good neck shot and down he went. He’s not the biggest buck in the world, but he has character.