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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dukgnfsn" data-source="post: 310138" data-attributes="member: 596"><p>[ATTACH]46533[/ATTACH][ATTACH]46534[/ATTACH][ATTACH]46535[/ATTACH]For most of you this probably wouldn't be a big deer but it is my PB so far. I am not a true horn hunter, to many other things that interest me, so most of my hunting year has been about meat and not horns. My dad doesn't hunt or fish but the one thing we have done since I got a bow at 16 is make sausage almost every year. Until a few years ago the only year we had missed was when I deployed for Desert Storm in 1990. The few years I didn't get a deer we made pork sausage, so as I stated meat was my priority over the years. The last few years when I have a buck tag I hold out a little longer hoping for a better one. This year veterans day was a pretty good morning for this veteran. Got to my parking area about 20 minutes before legal shooting time. Started  walking in about legal shooting time. About 1/2 hour later and seeing some deer moving about I got to the creek I was going to walk to get an area I was going to watch a hill side for a while. While working the creek into the wind I had a Coyote step out of the creek about 100 yards in front of me and worked his way to about 40 years until he seen me and crapped himself. He lit out and about 200 yards later I see 2 deer across the creek about 150 yards and watched them mill around about 15 minutes until they spotted me and about 5 minutes later the both snorted all the way out the valley. Since at this point there was no wind I figured the gig was up and every deer within a mile knew something was up. Decided to go about another 400 yards of so and watch the valley a while until the wind came up and hunt my way out. So I start heading to my destination and about  200 yards later a doe jumps up in the middle of no where and a few second later this guy jumps up behind her and they are off to the races. At about 260 yards out he makes a slight turn and I get my chance and put one in him. No movement for about 15 minutes, he was in some taller stuff and couldn't see any of him. I cross the creek and start working towards him and up he comes and away he goes, put another one in him and he goes down, gets up a short time later and over the hill he goes, piled up just out of sight on top of hill. First shot was thru the top edge of hind thru the body lodged in the front shoulder between the skin and front shoulder. It hit the liver and he was bleeding terribly inside and would have expired if given a little more time. He's an old warrior 5X6 with part of the main beam broken off. The Taxidermist I gave the cape to scored him at 148. Again not big for a lot of the deer that show up here but a PB for me and a cool rack with a lot of character. A very enjoyable morning in the ND Outdoors.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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