Thread: Got too be philosophical!

Last year at about this time my brother and I noticed an uptick in deer movement through one of the valleys in the area mentioned in this thread, with a number of deer sightings.
Part of learning an area is going back and checking to see if there is any rhythm, and so yesterday afternoon after work, we headed in there to check it out again.

Mike had a new rifle to break in, so he took lead and I asked him to shoot the first deer he saw for the pup, as she has been working hard for little reward recently. 20 minutes in and we noticed a weak indication from her. Mike took a couple more steps and I saw him raise his rifle, and you just know the difference between a look through the scope to check something out, and an intense aim, so I wasn't surprised a few nanoseconds later when the rifle spoke.

Just a weaner, but man was the dog wrapt! and she got some good pats and praise.




After dressing the deer, we hung it too cool and then carried on for another hour or two before returning to pick it up. We spotted another spiker towards dark but I had to make too much movement stepping forward and down to shoot under a tree, and could not get decently onto it before it presented its butt too us and was off. No stress as a successful evening already.