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DOUBLE WHAMMY 2 WI 10pts Down!

B-man715

By B-man715
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Well our Wisconsin opener turned out to be anything but ordinary!!

Usually myself and a few friends hope to take a couple does for some meat to begin the season. A nice buck seems hard to come by until the rut kicks in.

This year was a whole different story!

I'll keep this short; gotta get up early in the morning.

I lost my 80 acres that my future mother in law has let me hunt for the last 7 years. I have a few other private properties to hunt as well as a decent amount of public land in the area.

Looking at google earth I found a good spot of public land that borders a corn field. Some ground time found a beaten dirt path leading out of the public land into the corn. I figured it would be a good spot to take a doe heading into the corn before dark.

I took my climber into the woods around 2pm yesterday. Figuring it would be a fews hours or more until the deer started to move I was taken off guard when a small buck worked his way past my stand foraging on leaves. He was soon followed by 2 more small bucks doing the same. I thought that was the end of the action until I heard a fourth deer behind them.

I was already standing with bow in hand and caught a glimpse of antlers. The deer was 20 yards away, but I still had no idea of his size. He soon stepped out at 15 yards. I debated on shooting him, since it was only opening weekend and he wasn't the biggest deer I've ever shot; but work is again limiting my amount of time in the woods.

After a good shot on him and he didn't go far smile

An hour later he was in the back of the truck headed to the registration station when I found out that one of my best friends hit a nice buck too!

His didn't bleed much, though he made a perfect quartering away shot on it. He left him alone until dark and started tracking. By the time he found his deer (it only went 80 yards) I had mine caped and deboned.

We finished the night with a few beers and were very thankful for our time in the woods, and our time with friends.

I'm on the right and Nate is on the left smile

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