Got out to my brush blind about 5:30pm and the rain started. I slipped out and stood behind a tree for the 15 minute downpour. When it slowed to a drizzle I slipped back into my blind. 10 yards in front of me was a 2x2. We have a rule at my timber, no buck smaller than a 4x4 and the 4x4 has to be bigger than any you have taken no matter what you used to take him. It was hard not to shoot since I have never taken a buck, but I watched him for 30 minutes. I had no clue deer could lick their own @#$%%. Glad we don't eat their tounges! He finaly moved off to the west around the funnel into the other horseshoe of beans. After reading a post here on the wall about how fun it is to stalking in the rain, I decided to see how close I could get. I was wet, not seeing anything else to shoot, why not try to make some fun? I worked back through the timber and out the funnel. I came out into the CRP grass on my knees and once again he was at 10 yards. What a rush! Now it was pouring again. I decided to head home since my hat was folding down to my ears with rain. Thats when I saw 2 does come in at 30 yards. One took notice of me after a few minutes and came to check me out. She came all the way to 12 yards to see what I was. She finaly gave up, turned broadside and started to eat. I picked a spot, drew to anchor and took my shot. My arrow hit a thorn bush branch and flew 3 foot over her back. I could not belive it. All that work! So, I went home with no deer and a quiver on my back that was not quite full. Yet I had the biggest smile on my face when I reached my door. My husband and the kids thought I must have got the "big daddy" that we keep seeing when it is not deer season. No "Big Daddy", just the best hunting experience I have ever had. God has blessed us with an amazing land to hunt on and beautiful animals to chase. This kind of stuff makes you realize why we are so blessed to be Americans. Even if we have to put up with months of politics!!! Katie

Awesome Katie!!!

Katie,
great story thanks for sharing.

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Great stuff Katie!  That's what makes this bowhunting so addicting.  No need to make meat in order to have the time of your life!    
Thanks for sharing your great day.  

Katie

Congratulations on the stalk! Way to stick with it and not give up because of the rain. Thanks for sharing.

Are we having fun yet??? Wait till next time, it only gets better.

Good for you Katie!!! Not every one gets that sort of thing! I have some rifle hunting buddies that can not understand how a person can be so excited even though they did not kill anything. I came back super pumped from a recent hunt where I got within a whisker of taking 3 species (5x5 whitetail, cow elk and 14" antelope buck) in 2 days. It was just an incredible hunt maybe my best ever but I came home with no meat at all. No shots at the whitetail or the elk even though I was only 15 yds away on both and missed high on the antelope that was at the very end of my effective shooting range. I snuck up on the whitetail in its bed, called the elk in and decoyed the antelope in. I guess this is just a long winded way of saying I know exactly how you feel!!!  Good luck on your next outing!!!  

Sounds like it was a successful hunt. Congrats and thanks for sharing.

Great story! Sounds like you had a blast. Thanks for sharing.

Perfect! Thanks for sharing.

Great story.  Way to stick with it.

Sounds like you had an awesome hunt and didn't even have to drag a deer out after.  Great story and good luck in the rest of your adventures this fall!

Felt like i was there...gave me a chuckle...
thanks...

Great story!I'll be waiting for the next one!

Totally Awsome Katie!!!

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Thanks guys.  Just had soo much fun I wanted to share.  When you tell a story like that to the other moms picking kids up from kindergarden they seem to think you are nuts.  Glad to have a place like this.  Was wanting to get out again today but my husband is late from work to take over the kids.  He loves the cold so I hunt early season and he hunts late "cold" season.  We share the rut-true love!

You couldn't ask for a better marriage than that!

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What a great hunt!