The " Well house Buck "

I haven't had much to post about this winter as the Hunting has been only ok at best. I have passed up a lot of does and a few decent bucks but I have been waiting on the big one. I also just received a promotion so my hunting time between now and the end of deer season may be limited so I have planned to shoot the next deer that was either a big doe, a cull buck, or a monster buck. No small young bucks would be shot.

Last Thursday(Nov 29, 2012) I headed to a special spot to deer  hunt. This is a spot where my friend Eddie and myself actually would get off the school bus when we were 13 or 14,  go grab our single shot shotguns and rush to this hardwood ridge to shoot squirrels. His was a Topper 58 12 Gauge and mine was a Winchester 37A 20 Gauge.  Man did we kill a bunch of   tree rats on this place!

              This is the Ridge with a pine thicket to the left.

This creek is at the bottom of the Ridge.

Behind this Ridge is an old Pecan Orchard that is grown up.  It has A well house that was Eddies Grand Dad's sitting at the top of the orchard. I shot this buck right at sunset making his way through the orchard.  He is probably one of the smallest racked bucks I have shot but he was a good cull to take out of the herd and it was special day to shoot a buck on this old stomping ground. He was  Shot at Aprox 60 yds with an Ithaca 37 Deluxe with a 24 inch Deerslayer barrel. I was shooting Remington Sluggers. This Ithaca with a 28 inch modified barrel has also killed a lot of squirrels and a few rabbits in this area as well. He was a very big bodied deer.   Thanks for reading , Mack

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