Holy Cow, Its a.............

[BEN]

So I head into the woods this afternoon about 2pm and sit in a ladder stand on the edge of a reclaimed strip mine full of autumn olive, and a patch of woods full of beech, oaks, and hickory. It's almost 80 and the sun is hot and I'm feeling sleepy right a way. About 1/2 hour later, I'm nodding off and decide to climb down  and take a nap ... Zzzzz .... Zzzz.


about 4 pm, I wake up, climb back up and think,"now this feels better!"
Almost right a way I see the rump end of a deer walking through the autumn olives, veering away. I give 2 quick grunts hoping to turn it around. immediatly, something big is coming towards me from a little below the first deer. All I can see is the scrub trees moving and my heart's going THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!!

 My bows up, i'm ready as can be then everything stops and I can see a glittery eye in the brush. I'm thinking "just a little bit farther" then a head pokes through and the rest of the beast  emerges from the scrub and enters the woods, broadside -- 7yds away, and i'm looking at the biggest, blackest COW I've ever seen in the woods!!!
That's right, i called in a 600# heifer with a grunt tube!!  

That cow has no idea how lucky she is to still be alive!  
And that was the excitement for my day!

ben

[bloodyarrow]

     been there

[WidowEater]

better than drenching yourself with estrous and hunting next to the neighbors prize bull, had to high tail it up a tree......

thank god for cell phones

[JEFF B]

   

[Curveman]

It somehow reminds me of the time I was grunting and heard a rustle in the brush and out pops....another hunter! I confess that I continued to call him in a bit and then decided it was too cruel! I even saw him gesture to his partner that the "buck" was in my direction!    

[Wannabe1]

Where's the beef?!

We could use this story for a new commercial.  

[bretto]

Had about a 1000 lb Angus Bull come into a wallow I was sitting over in Colorado last Year. You know one of those secluded wallows where You can only see 10 yards in any direction. Thought the biggest herd bull in the state was coming til that black hide appeared. LOL

bretto