Semi-live Stalker road trip to Iowa

[ichibuns]

OH man South are you ok? what a bummer man hope your ok nothing serious I hope well take hope everything is ok can you still hunt? best of luck  :(    

[anw0625]

Glad you are ok!

[GRINCH]

South hate that you hit that deer,hope you are alright and can get the car fixed.

[RC]

I hate seeing that. Coming from someone that has had the Wifes car and my 4 day old new truck in the shop this year for deer head butts..RC

[Bivyhunter]

Since I couldn't do anything about it at 5 am, I decided to go climb in a stand and see if I could turn the day around. It was another cold one and I crunched through a quarter inch of ice covering the creek the stand sat above. The south wind carried my scent out into a cut field behind me and a creek bottom ran east and west in front of me. Not a minute after I'd climbed up into my stand, I heard a buck raking his antlers upstream from me, close, real close. Unfortunately, it was still before first light and I couldn't see a thing as he eventually moved down the creek in front of me.
 About an hour after first light, I caught movement coming down the hill in the field across the creek from me. A doe was running, wide open towards me with a huge buck in tow. She crossed the creek about 50 yards downstream of me and continued at the same pace across the cut field behind me. The buck skidded to a stop at the edge of the cut bank and surveyed the creek bottom for a few moments before crossing. I had to admire him, in all his lust, he was still sharp enough to be concerned about keeping his skin on. I watched him run past the stand at about 40 yards, intent on catching up with his rapidly disappearing prize.

[ozzyshane]

south so close just to far for the stick bow Thnaks Shane

[Karl Kortemeier]

Great story. Thank you for sharing.

[huntnmuleys]

still reading..

[wooddamon1]

[Altiman94]

Too bad about your vehicle, but hoping you ended up getting some meat here in IA.  Maybe I missed it, but what part of IA are you hunting?

[Shedrock]

Keep it coming, this is killing me.      

[Bivyhunter]

Sorry guys, got a little side tracked. As things started to slow down, I started to worry a more about the logistics of the new situation I faced. It was now Tuesday and I had to wrap up my hunt Thursday evening, deer or no deer. I had to make a run up to Minnesota for a meeting on Friday, then head back to CA Friday afternoon. I was hunting down near Red Oak, a small town without much available for people in pickles such as I was in. There was a small hole in my radiator, so I wasn't going to be driving anywhere without at least a visit to the mechanic for a bubble gum repair. Both headlights had been busted from their mounts. One went a little wall-eyed, like it was looking for owls. I figured worse case I could get them rigged back into place with some baling wire.
  At about 11:00, I figured I'd better go and see if I could find someone to doctor up the radiator, so I called Stan for a pick-up. He suggested we go down to the local body shop in Corning, an even smaller town. He knew the owner of the shop, well, unfortunately for him. Between he and his wife, they'd been in his shop 4 times in just over a year because of suicidal critters. When we rolled up, Frank came out and saw my stickbow in the back  of the car and commented that he used to shoot one of them before he got too busy with work. I explained my predicament and told him I had to leave town in just over 48 hours. He started inspecting the car and writing down all of the parts that were going to need to be replaced. I was a little dumbfounded, all I needed him to do was try to fix the radiator temporarily. "Uh...how long are these parts going to take to get in? I have to leave THIS Thursday" I said. "Oh, I'll have them in by noon tomorrow and your car will be done by the end of the day". I was floored!

[Firstarrow]

Wow! Good people!
I lost my transmission on a hunt in eastern Wyoming the shop there had me a! new tranny and on the road for near a thousand: cheaper than if it went out in town! Yes sir good people in the world!

[DarkTimber]