NDR A pretty nice So. Maine buck.

Congrats Terrie and Troy!
For some reason I think she is now "hooked" on a great lifetime sport. As a mentor of kids, I love it when it all comes together. Her heart must have been racing walking up to that trophy. And I bet someday she will pass on your mentor skills to another hunter. If she never shoots another buck as large, this first buck memory is truly fantastic.
Steve
 
Oh, I forgot to add... it isn?t uncommon for my wife to help me drag (or pack) deer out. So all is fair.
 
I had a buck respond to a grunt call like a freight train yesterday morning. It was 11F, and I decided to see how a three point would respond, since he had just run-off a button buck that was alone feeding in the southeast corner of a clear-cut, separated from me by 80 some yards of steep stream course banks. Less than a minute after the fourth grunt that caught his attention, causing him to look around, I heard the first of two audible, but muffled, "womps" of snow compression off my left shoulder from a loping deer, only to have the 140s buck I am in my fourth year of pursuit arrive twelve feet from my pop-up blind! He was upwind of me...barely. I had my rifle across my legs, but I had no option to move on the crunchy ground I had cleared of debris inside the blind, until he did. I pulled my glove off and dialed the scope down to 2X and waited. He dove downhill to cross the stream valley and I brought the gun up and grabbed a chunk of blind window edge with my left hand to kill him as he came up the far side. Nothing. No sight nor sound. He ran upstream on a twenty-degree slope. eventually crossing about a hundred yards west of me. Never had a deer respond that well to a grunt call....just like on TV, except I didn't kill him, or do a commercial for the A-Way grunt call I use!
 
Nice looking deer! We are into our two muzzleloader season as I type. Time is limited but hoping to get out a couple more times.
 
Two days left in our rifle season. The downside is after five days of near single digit temps. that kept deer moving, we had three days of rain and melt on 10" of snow. What remains is a pretty noisy snow base to still hunt on.
 
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