First Trad Deer!!!! Is it a BIG KS buck or a BIG KS doe?

[snakebit40]

You'll have to find out in the morning    :p  I will say I'm VERY impressed with the blood trail a Woodsman leaves. One of those you can just walk beside and not have to be on your hands and knees.      

[Hot Hap]

Antlered doe?

Congradulations.  Hap

[dispatch 510]

Originally posted by Hot Hap:
[QB] Antlered doe?  

[huntnmuleys]

its morning!!!!!!    come on man!

[landman]

I think they're getting a bit of rain this morning.

[wv lungbuster]

[dave19113]

[longbowben]

[KodiakMag]

It's morning.  

[BradLantz]

I'll bite - its a big KS doe

Why? Because the big BIG KS bucks chase the does best a bit later than right now. I'll be going a week from today  

[D. Key]

It's way past morning.  Come on with it!  We want details and pics.

[countrygirl]

looking forward to seeing the pics.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by snakebit40:
You'll have to find out in the morning     :p  

What morning were you referring to?  

[snakebit40]

Ok ok work has been busy, sorry.

Last night I hunting a creek bottom I haven't touched since last year. As I was walking in I see a couple does in a alfalfa field. So I start sneaking down toward the creek when movement caught my eye, it was a little buck making a scrape. I sit down and watch him till he moves off. The plan was to go sit somewhere near that scrape because other bucks would check it out. As I'm easing my way down I see a bigger buck, a shooter standing on the scrape. Well he saw me to and turn around and trotted off.
I finally make it to the scrapes and see a couple more does on the way. I get set up near the scrapes and sit and wait....

[Gen273]

[Cyclic-Rivers]

More please.

[snakebit40]

I made a promise to myself when I got into trad last year that I wanted to kill my first deer on the ground with no ground blind. NOTHING AT ALL AGAINST THEM, or tree stands its just how I wanted to do it.

I'm set up with a full view of the alfalfa field but still able to shoot in the creek if needed. I grab some tumble weeds and place them around me and set up a nice natural ground blind, nothing special. Not much after I get that done I see a doe enter the field 200 yards away. Soon after her a little buck comes in the field and chases her to the other side of the property, fun to watch the action start to heat up. I start to lightly rattle just to stir things up, and in the past I've had great luck this last week of October with rattling.
Doe's and buck start to pour out of the picked corn field above the alfalfa, not because of the rattle just because its their routine. I'm watching and the later it gets the bigger the bucks get. They finally start to filter down toward me, when I see one doe way out in front of the others. The way she was going she was ending up behind me, down wind. As I watch all the deer in the alfalfa, around 10-15, I hear a deer eating beside me. I grab my bow and get ready....

[BeNoIt]

Great story Jon! The method in which it is being delivered is a bit like torture but certainly is keeping it exciting!

[Rusty Snuffers]

I'm waiting for a knife forum-style pic at the end...

[Gen273]

AND?