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I would like to post my most memorable experience from deer hunting.
Well a few years ago I was hunting over in Amherst Junction (Portage County) with my father, brother and another father son pair. Our friends owned a small shack adjacent to public domain. There was about 3 inches of snow on the ground and it was a cloudy day. We should have known we would come home empty. Anyway this area was semi wooded but also marsh. I spent all morning perched on a 20gallon pail with my trusty shotgun. The rest of my party was somewhere else for the duration. Not one sign of life other than the community birds, squirrels and a rabbit. Then noon rolled, we joined back up for lunch break.
Shortly after heading back to the cold to catch that 30 pointer, we had decided to drive the deer. We were in pairs spread out every 50 feet or so. Anyway my brother and I were together going over a 100-foot length trail bridge, which crossed the marsh. There was another pair of hunters with the same idea on the other side coming toward us. Then the unthinkable happened a 13 pointer with a beautiful spread jumped on top of the bridge right between us and the other group. The buck stood there resting up for at least a minute just looking at us. Funny, the other group ruined our great shot, or is it we ruined theirs'!?
AJE
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If you talk to the animals they will talk to you, If you do not talk to them you will not know them. And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears,one destroys. ~Chief Dan George. (1899 - 1981)
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