day 224 11-28-2009 141 to go

Day 224-141 to go
11-28-2009 Sat
10:00AM-4:40PM

Weather: calm, clear, 41°, 29.79 steady


Bagged

Doe (Tom)

Location

Moose Junction hunting shack

Partners

Tom W.

Comments

Today was day two of our north woods deer hunt. This morning I put Tom up in the tree stand I had set up the previous night. Then, I made a circle drive around the swamp that the stand was set up in.
About half-way through the drive I kicked up a small deer, but all I could see was its butt going away from me. Shortly thereafter I heard a single shot come from Tom’s direction. Tom had four antlerless deer come through with a fifth lagging behind by about eighty yards. He thought it may be a buck so he passed on the other four in the hopes he would get a chance at a buck! Unfortunately it was not a buck, and the other four were gone. He did shoot the lagging doe, but it did not immediately drop. The doe ended up traveling another one half mile before succumbing to its wound. This poor animal was gut shot and was loosing a considerable amount of intestines as it ran. It is just amazing how these animals can keep going with the type of wounds that are inflicted upon them. It is my opinion that if you shoot at an animal you keep shooting till it drops or it is out of range.
I still hunted and did some sitting the last hour of daylight and did not see any deer.