Turkey Day Buck

I hunted the late afternoon behind my house and killed my best buck to date on my property in Virginia. Nice 2 1/2 year old buck and what a great day in the woods. I'm very happy to harvested this good buck on Thanksgiving day 2011 and very thankful for living on a great piece of property.

Virginia Double

Well yesterday was my wedding anniversary so I took the day off and thanks to a great wife (24 great years together and counting) I got to hunt both in the morning and evening on my 20 acres up in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia. I don't do a ton of hunting on my own property but it's nice to be hunting less than 300 yards from your house. Well I got it done with the muzzle loader in the morning on a nice fat doe and also had a nice black bear (about 250lbs) within 50 yards but couldn't get a clear shot through some thick brush so he got a pass this time. So a great morning and I'm spending the rest of the day with the wife doing my duties as the happy husband. We get home and the wife tells me to go hunting (after allot of begging of course) so I'm up in my favorite ladder stand and in walks this freak rack buck within 50 yards of my stand and I smoke him with my percussion cap smoke pole and so ends a great day in the woods for me. My first double on my own property and damn it would have been nice to add that bear to the total.

Youth Day Sika Stag

Took my good buddy Joey to my eastern shore lease for some Sika hunting and the kid got it done on a nice spike stag. Joey is only 15 years old but he really loves to hunt and has already shot some very impressive animals to include several big tom turkeys, some very nice whitetail bucks and this is his second sika stag (he harvested a great 6 point stag last year). The kid made one heck of a shot at 157 yards with my Remington 700 in .243 caliber and I couldn't have been more proud of him.

Sika Stag Down

Took some leave last Thursday and went down to my eastern shore property after some Sika. 10:00 am in the morning this stag decides to walk in front of me at 20 yards. I shot him a bit high and back but still managed to get both lungs and he went 80 yards and piled up. A nice stag with my crossbow and wasn't going to let him walk.