Topic: Hunting

[Tamer]

Well this has been a pretty good week for me. I thought last night would be a bust as it was so windy and the weather had intermittent rain squalls so it was nasty. I was sitting in a blind so the worse was off of me, but this spot is right besides a travel road with a gate and after hearing that gate crank about a hundred times it seemed the group that was in the field I was watching spooked and ran away (a groud of five bucks and 3 or 4 does) so I thought the hunt was over. I was just about to pack up at evening light when this one walked in. His horns shined a lot! The inside spread was over 17 inches.





If it were not for lighted sight pins I could not have harvested this bad boy. I knew I hit him good (last pic heart shot) and he crashed just out of the field. I was literally able to drive my truck right too him. I also tried out a Havalon Piranta Knife last night and was extremely impressed. I will put the link here:

Amazon Piranta Bolt Link

This thing is really crazy sharp like they advertised. It is not really to heavy to cut through bone (I did go through the tail to skin though) and makes field dressing a snap. I would highly recommend going slow as a slip with this will probably mean an emergency room visit, but when the surgical blade gets dull (mine didn't after field dressing and skinning) you just take some pliers and replace it (comes with 12 blades). I can see it rapidly replacing all my hunting knives.

It was great that my little gal was up when I got home to share in the experience. We finished the night by loading the dehyrdrator which was finally ready to go after having the jerky marinade for two days. It has been a great hunting week in the Tamer household. I am trying to talk my wife into picking up her bow now. Fingers crossed. The rut hasn't hit full tilt yet and I am tagged out!