Striper Phil

Had a co worker hunter come back yesterday from a several week hunting vacation on local PUBLIC land in NE Connecticut. First he did get a nice 190 lb 12 point actually a nice 10 with 5 " and larger tines. The brow tines were double with one point each broken thus 10 or 12? Anyway Mike goes out next to fill his doe tag for meat. I will leave out detail to keep this short. Mike hits a doe at 40 yards, sabot slug, and it runs off. Trails it for a long way through a swamp where he breaks through ice, wet feet and legs, its about 25 degrees out. Keeps up the trailing and gets a shot at the river bank. The doe takes a couple of big jumps into the river, the river is a 100 yards wide. Mike sees the deer out 10 feet or so floating down current when presto it sinks and is gone. He considered some swimming and diving but good sense got the better of him as he was already wet,cold and alone. Have a nice Xmass One Shot One Kill Striper Phil Guess I should have put this in camp stories

Striper Phil

Great stories!! This isn't all that funny but it is a pretty good story. To set the stage I was in New Jersey in December with buckshot ( deer dont drop as fast as with the shock of a rifle with buckshot)it was mid teens out, . Hunting from a permenant stand in very thick briers next to a good size stream, the only path was a deer highway. Out 60 yards or so the path forks. You can see deer comming out a couple of hundred yards and then they disappear they come under the stand or if they take the hidden fork they swim 20 yards or so to a small island 10 feet square. Well sure enough the only shot I get it the deer on the island. I figure after the shot the deer will at least jump to the shore. You guessed it , dropped in his tracks. Thought he was faking but his head was under water. I did get completly undressed and swim to the island dragged the deer back like a lifeguard, flapped in the freezing breeze and got dressed. I was a lot younger then!!! One Shot One Kill Striper Phil

Tazman

My uncle told me about taking the new preacher hunting, Earl(my uncle) heard a shot form the preachers stand and then heard the preacher holler "Earl I got a nice one. Earl went over to him straight away and saw the preacher just stepping over the bucks back to "stick him", well the second the preacher grabbed one of the bucks antlers with his left hand, the buck jumps up with the preacher on his back and took off running down through the woods with the preacher on his back stabbing the deer in the neck wildly until they were out of sight! Earl said he thought the preacher was going to get hurt bad, but had no idea what to do but give chase. He said he spotted the preacher stumbling as he climbed out of a gulley, covered in blood and his knife still in his hand, the preacher was grinning from ear to ear and said "I got him!". The preacher was pretty stratched up from briars and branches, but nothing serious. Earl said he stabbed this deer in the neck about 40 times before he dropped, what had happened was he had creased the bucks skull with a slug and just knocked it out!

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

dep214

we had a guy hunt with us on his very first hunt. we tolf him the most important thing was to get to his stand early. while he was asleep we reset the clock back up several hours. when the alarm went off we woke him up and sent him to his stand. it was 1am.

nodose

Taz you're killing me..now thats a story that you can read an picture at the same time...good one.