Trad Gang

This past saturday I got a chance to slip away up to North Carolina to hunt with some friends of mine.  Thanksgiving break was great and I spent most of my time hunting around the upstate and hanging out with mom while my wife and son went to see grandmom in N.J.(I don't go to Jersey in the fall because it is to cold and I have no place up there to hunt).  Left home Friday night at 12:00 headed for my huntin budy's house, Regg.  Regg lives just north of Charlotte and an hour away from the hunting grounds.  Well we loaded up his truck and took off.  Regg had a spot on the back of the property where bucks had been slipping out that he wanted to gun hunt.  I had hung a stand a week earlier in a funnel that I wanted to hunt.  

Well I settled in to my stand just before sun up and could hear deer walking behind my stand in the briar swamp area.  As the sun rose, the guns began to crack off in the distance.  I don't mind the guns at all.  Lets me know the deer are moving. We'll after a morning of listening to fireworks and being entertained by squirer, the action picked up at 10:15.  All at once I could hear several deer running down the bottom.  Three does came into view.  When they hit the bottom, they stopped to check the area.  The lead doe was a big pieball deer.  The checked the area over good and preceded to walk down a trail that ran right in front of my stand.  As the lead doe walked in front of my stand, I came to full draw, picked a spot just behind her front leg and let the string slip from my fingers.  The shot was a little off, but still a good one, entering the top of her shoulder.  I didn't get a complete passthrough but the 190 Interseptor did bust through the sholder and when we dressed her out we found that the Interseptor had completely cut through the heart.  She ran just forty yards back up the hill from which she came and died on the hill.  I feels good to make the chip shot after missing one earlier this season.

My stand locatin.
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Me and the doe.
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And the Interseptors.
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That's a beautiful doe, congratulations.

Brother, that's a fine looking DOE ... I too hunt with the guns banging away... seems to make the deer run to you for safety.

Congrats Interseptor!!  What a neat looking deer and trophy. I've seen lots of deer in my life, but never one like that.  I think I'd have to get that hide tanned hair on.

Congradulations!  Bowhunting during the gun season is a challenge, the deer are a little more wired.  Way to go!  :thumbsup:

Great work, glad someone got to hunt during the holiday. A couple of questions for you, how do you like the simmons quiver and have you always had such good results with the simmons broadheads?

Pretty deer. Congrats!

-Charlie

Sweet a piebald doe!   :thumbsup:   That hide would make a great trophy.

I would have to have that hide tanned, eeven with that big ol hole in it.

Congrats interseptor   :thumbsup:

That's a very unique trophy. I've never seen a piebald deer in the wild.

Nice & a very interesting trophy indeed!

Take that you gun hunters.Awsome trophy

Congradulations. That is quite a trophy. Hap

Congrats on a fine Tarheel Trophy!!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

That hide would make a neat one to have tanned.
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David

Kick Ass!!!

Good job! Glad it all came together for ya!

Beautiful piebald...congrats on a great deer...cant agree with Ferret more would have to hang on to that hide!!!!

Nice doe sir - she's cool looking!

Thats a great trophy. What kind of bow are you shooting? Congradulations

Thanks to all. the bow is Lynn Harrelson T/D recurve (56lbs. at 28),zebra wood riser with double bamboo and double carbon lams in the limbs.  I like really like the Simmons quiver.  It holds my arrows snug and keeps my feathers dry. If I'm hunting with a climber, I strap the quiver to the climber using the little buckle straps you can buy from the army surplus store.  Makes it easier to pact a stand and the quiver in.  To be honest with you, I'm a Simmons nut! I love all of Jerry's products.  I also shoot an Acadian woods t/d recurve.  And this afternoon I dropped the hide off at the taxidermist to be tanded.  

Doug

Congrats, nice deer.

You must have confidence to hunt with a bow during gun season!   :thumbsup:

you need that one tanned.

Beautiful deer,thanks for showing.Gun season no less - awsome!

A better picture of the deer with my digital cam.
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How I strap my quiver on a climing stand when packing in an out.
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kool, great pic's

Nice going, that is a fine deer.

Pretty deer and way to get a fine deer during gun season. That hide will look good on the wall.

AWESOME deer!!! i hope your going to get the hide tanned?

I have a problem with gun hunters, they just always seem to push deer my way.....wait a minute i dont have a problem with them.  I love hunting with a bow during gun season people think i have lost my mind (maybe a little) but i just enjoy toten my curve.

Cool deer Doug!  Congratulations!  :clapper:

We met at one of the Tannehill shoots this past summer (don't remember which one).  Look forward to seeing you again when we have more time to talk.

Greg

Cool piebald. I always consider deer taken with a bow during gun season as freebies as they do not count towards my archery tags. Congratulations!

Congrats on a great dear. Love those piebald deer. There where a bunch in WV when I lived there but I never got a shot at one. I'd get that hide tanned for sure.

Congrats again Doug!

very nice , congrats :0)

That is soooooooooooooo cool looking! Congrats! That hide would definately go to the taxidermist.

Greg,
Do you know Lynn Harrelson?  See you at Tannehill next year!
Doug

One of a kind trophy!! Congrats!!  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Good job! Congrats !!