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From: roa@davinci.acc.virginia.edu ("Robert O. Anderson Jr")
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: 1st deer
Message-ID: <1991May8.075142.1188@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 12:51:42 GMT
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>Tim Rigg writes:(stuff deleted)
>.back to the story...  A nice buck came walking rather quickly down the
>trail.  When he reached the scent.  He stopped dead in his tracks
>(perfect broadside angle to me), put his head down, and checked out
>the scent.  Any hunter could have easily shot the buck.  Without the
>scent, the buck would have kept walking and only presented a moving
>shot.

>However, I was NOT any hunter.  It was my first season and buck fever
>made me drastically rush the shot, and miss.  I plan on using the same
>scent on the same trail during bow season this fall.  Hopefully I will
>get another chance at that buck that has been laughing at me all
>winter.  Missing a broadside buck from 23 yards with a rifle is a VERY
>humbling experience.

      It's been a time when I shook so bad trying to hold on a deer I
couldn't shoot. I remember one time I lowered the gun, turned my head
and took several deep breaths, raised the gun and just shook like a
leaf. It was just two years ago I had an arrow rattling around in the
sight window at full draw......on a yearling doe!

      If it didn't happen I probably wouldn't hunt.....naaaahhhh.
I read a good story in one of the huntin' mags about the "Ice Moment"
It's a good story about what happens when you see a deer(or other
game).

Bobby