Hunting & Fishing Double Eights

wadevb1

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Mar 7, 2006
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Took these thirty minutes apart. Morning started off with a fork chasing a doe in circles around my platform. Eight number one came in and chased the fork off. At 90 yards, I torched 90 grains of BH209 and the 300 grain Barnes expander dropped him in his tracks.

Thirty minutes later the second eight followed two does into a dogwood thicket two hundred yards distant. I followed his rack looking for a hole, nothing. I pulled out my grunt tube and let out three loud grunts. He investigated and poked his shoulder out at 180 yards. MZ went boom and he began a slow run towards me. I grabbed my .44 revolver but at 90 yards he stopped and tipped over.

Thirty minutes after that a yote thought he was going to dine on my second eight. I sent him running into the thicket with a steam vapor trail venting from both sides.

Yesterday morning was action packed.

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Re: Double Eights

Unfortunately we were unable to locate the yote. Found the hit site by locating a few patches of hair. I'm thinking gut shot due to lack of blood. The thicket he was last seen entering was thick and would result in some belly crawling. We had two deer to drag out of the marsh and that kicked our asses. The yote is MIA, presumed dead. The vapor trail was quite the site, almost cartoonish.

egghead,

These are my only two MI deer of the 2010 season. Unfortunately, I'm now tagged out.