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2014-2015: My First Season Hunting Deer!
This gentleman is the one I credit for helping me get
started in this great American past-time...
Yes! It took a black man to make me a better redneck!
His name is Robert and he has hunted deer for 30 years in Georgia.
Robert took me under his wing and showed me the ropes.
(Sorry for the double cliché!)
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----- Putting out the deer corn, Tuesday, 9/30/2014 ----- Robert sez: "If they gonna get it, they gotta work for it!" |
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Hunt
#1 - Saturday October 18, 2014 MY FIRST DEER HUNT EVER Here is the stand that I used on opening day of deer season, Saturday, October 18, 2014... I only used this stand for one day, as I got nothing and Robert wanted to use it again. Incidentally, I saw NOTHING. |
 tree stand view, September 30  |
| view from ground, September 30 | |
hunting with my S&W
M&P 15 using caliber .556 NATO |
| BELOW SHOWS WOODS CANOPY |
Afterwards, I used another stand owned by Robert's friend.
Edgar, who only came with us one time later in the season...
This was the best stand, because I saw my only buck (a 10-pointer)
and I also saw wild hogs a-plenty and two does.
I was in this stand October 25, November 2, November 9,
November 28, and January 15.
I kept requesting this stand as much as possible to try to get
that 10-pointer that I let slip away on October 25.
I never saw him again, though I did hear him bellow on occasion.
The One That Got Away!
9:50 a.m. Saturday, October 25, 2014
The pink oval above shows where a 10-pointer stopped!
This was 45 yards away from my vantage point in Edgar's tree stand.
He bent down and was eating ground based plants; I actually had my cross-hairs on the back of his neck.
At the time, I thought that I should wait and get that shoulder shot -- that was a mistake!
I eventually learned that once you get a deer lensed in your scope, YOU TAKE THE SHOT!
The deer may not linger for long, and will usually vanish from view by going behind trees.
The following is the same view from Edgar's tree stand on five different occasions:
(Apparently, Edgar didn't come much this season.)
| Hunt #2 - Saturday October 25, 2014 |
Hunt #3 - Sunday November 2, 2014 |
Hunt #4 - Sunday November 9, 2014 |
Hunt #6 - Friday November 28, 2014 |
Hunt #7 - Thursday January 15, 2015 |
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| photo: 11:35 a.m. EDT | photo: 2:12 p.m. EST | photo: 7:17 a.m. EST | photo: 10:28 a.m. EST | photo: 7:25 a.m. EST |
A third stand (DB's) was used by me on Friday, November 21 (Hunt #5).
That day is when Edgar came to hunt with me and Robert; that is when Edgar used his own stand.
No photograph of the original location for DB's stand is available, except for a view from it:
November 21, 2014
photo: 3:48 p.m. EST
Late that afternoon, I could see in the reflection of my goggles
a doe walking at the 5 o'clock position from me, just behind my stand.
Edgar got nothing, but Robert got himself an 8-pointer with his .300 Win Mag rifle...
| Venison... It's what's for
dinner! |
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 On the ground, ready for the sled |
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 In the sled, now ready for moving |
Robert got his buck mount back during September 2015 from
Wayne Kelly's Taxidermy in Stockbridge, GA
Nope! I didn't get one single deer the whole 2014-2015 season.
But... That didn't stop me.
All it did was whet my appetite for more!