Tomorrow's a rare day! updated with story and pictures!

[adeeden]

Over the next five minutes or so I had picked out six deer bedded at the bottom of the hill between the creek  and the hillside I was on. The wind was steady out of the northwest and the deer were north east of me so I felt the crosswind would work fine and I mentaly planned my route to work closer to them.

I knew it would be tough to work down to them, but felt it was possible and slowly one silent step at a time begin closing in.

The first 20 yards went easy enough and I was now about 50 yards from the closest deer a nice plump little fawn doe. As usual all the deer were bedded  facing different directions so I was trying to watch all of them to make sure none were looking my way before I took a step.

No eyes were looking my way so I stepped from behind the maple I was behind to try to work my way towards a hickory a maybe 8 feet away. On the second step towards the hickory I lost my footing with my right foot and went down in ball of snow sliding about 5 feet down the hillside!

By the time I was able to look up all I could see was a bunch of white tails wagging as the headed up the bottoms heading north.........

[adeeden]

Well crap........ I decided to just go on down to the bottom of the hill, and set there for awhile to let things settle down. The deer had ran right towards where I had planned on going so that I could get to the far east side of the big ridge. I decided to sit and relax so that hopefully they would move away and relax and I wouldn't start the blowing stomping game when I headed that direction.

[adeeden]

After sitting a bit I noticed movement about thirty yards away and it wasn't long before the stalk was on again!

At 20ish yards I saw the oppurtunity I was looking for open up and nocked an arrow and quickly came to anchor and the shaft was away!

I knew the shot looked a little low but was still suprised to see the critter run uphill.

[adeeden]

I couldn't believe it when as I was watching #1 run through a pile of brush and roots on the hillside that a second shot about ten yards away materilized! Arrow #2 was on it's way.

[adeeden]

#2 went down in sight, but #1 had dissapeared into the brush, so i begin slipping along the sign of my first shot.







Things were looking promising!

[twitchstick]

looking good so far!

[adeeden]

10 yards away I soon seen #1 expired at the base of an uprooted tree.

So I headed over to claim my two prizes from the snowday!

   




Yeah I know, I get side tracked easily!

I'm a sucker for a squirrel!

I still can't believe the first one made it as far as he did around 20 yards. I had hit him low right where the front leg connects to the body with a bear razorhead. And he was moving along real well even with a big gash. First time I think I have ever tracked a squirrel!

Anyway the rest of the morning for deer was a wash but I did manage to miss 3 more squirrells and lose 2 arrows! I'll have to go back for them after the snow melts!

[lpcjon2]

Thanks for all the early morning suspense.Thats great!

[BigStriper]

Congratulations on a Fine Hunt,2 Squirrels,you did Good,you had me going on the Deer Story,Happy New Year,

Kurt

[David Mitchell]

Great story and real suspense there--no matter, deer or squirrel it''s all good!

[cacciatore]

Congrats for a magic day,thanks for sharing pics are always welcome.

[RM81]

Great story.  You had me.

[owlbait]

Great story and pics. Submit that to TBM, its a winner!

[amicus]

Thats great Adeeden. I just about fell of my chair when I read how you sliped and fell. Great story, good ending.

Take care.

Gilbert

[Billy]

KEr ...unch skaw..eek. pop..
was what i heard for about two hours this morning.. (My boots on the still wet, packable snow) though I had to listen over the wind.
At least I was not on the road!!!

Congrats on a fine morning, Dennis!

[JEFF B]

Great story man! thanks for taking us along

[oneshot-onekill]

Dennis....you had me all along...I thought that slip and fall only happened to me....congrats on a couple nice squirrels.

[glass76]

Great story, nice pics too.

[Hot Hap]

Congradulations-Hap

[pdk25]

Nicely told.  Sounds like a great day.