G.R.U.B.

Opening day couldn’t have turned out any better!!! After hunting the morning in North Street(is that really a town…who the hell has heard of North Street???) I called my brother, “Greedy Smurf” and we decided to hunt the eve together. It was hard for him to leave Jackson, but who could pass up on a little brotherly love hunt! I also enticed him with some monster buck sign.  So we decided to meet in Dexter MI.

This is a first for me. I have never seen or heard of a buck rubbing on a horizontal limb. To rub a Pine tree raw took a little bit of aggression!!

We mapped out our point of attack, then applied face paint and fastened our bayonets. We were ready for battle!!

I know, I know Kojak…I should have a gun in my hands but I love to slice n dice!!  We then ventured through the woods to our stands and set up shop. After sitting an hour I had three doe patrolling the area. They checked the scrapes and moved on. By the time they reached the top of the ravine, Greedy Smurf buried a 12 gauge slug into the heart of a wandering doe!!   As we met up by the truck(which is always an exciting feeling when you know a deer is down!!) Greedy asks me, "am I bleeding"? I turned my headlamp on and busted out laughing!

He got SCOPE SLAPPED!!!!!!

I had to play Dr. Phil…broke out the first aid kit, told him everything would be alright and went to work! LOL!  After that we proceeded to the kill zone. Even though we knew where the doe lay, we still went through the tracking process. As Greedy said, “I only get to do this once a year, lets take our time and enjoy this”. That we did my fellow Grubs!!! It was an explosive site! You could see where the slug had annihilated the ground after exiting the doe. It looked to me like she got spun around after impact. We tracked her last steps(which was only 30 yards) to find her hugging a root!(figured you might like that one Matt O.)

 After a text book gut job, we sucked back a couple cold ones and made her famous!!!

Congrats Geedy Smurf!!!!

Nice Post!!!!!! And congrats to the SMURF!

Over the weekend I got a little anxious and sniped a dozer. My buddy Jeremy(who is still not a GRUB member) was at the North Street property on Sat. morning the 20th. He called me up and told me he had does running all over the place but no bucks. So I jumped in the truck and headed to the prop dreaming of high tines! When I arrived, I threw the target out and fired a few shots. I then backed the target up to 50yds then 60yds telling Jeremy, “you never know when a deer is going to change course…be prepared”! It was a perfect evening hunt…a little windy, a little cold, and I was feeling a little frisky. Around 4:10 two wandering doe took a left when they should have taken a right. They walked right in front of me and were hanging out. To paint a quick picture…I am sitting on the inside corner of a corn field facing the field. The farmer came through a week ago and tilled the field to perfection. These deer were digging up the left over kernels. After I figured out there is not a buck following these doe, I made the decision in my head to take her down. When I say it, it sounds soooooo easy! As soon as I made the decision, my heart raced and I started to shake.(I get a little too excited!!!) Twenty yards away broadside, who could ask for a better shot!! Well as I moved my bow into place, I bumped my grunt call and both deer immediately looked up at me. Thanks to my Cabelas leafy 3D seclusion, they could not get a bead on me. The doe I wanted to shoot then turned and started walking further in the field. She was now about 45-50yds away. She then took a slight turn left and as I started to draw my bow the other doe watched the whole thing go down. I put my pin on her and let it fly!!!! I slammed into the shoulder on the exit side and she piled up 60yds from where I shot her. Yeah baby!!!!!! The Vortex left a huge entry wound from the quarter and away shot…its gonna be hard for you fellow Grubs to believe this, but it was 6” wide and sliced through a couple of ribs as well. I have been using these broad heads since 1994 and I hope they never go out of business!!!! Good luck to all out there….take your time, practice, and shoot straight!

Hell Yeah!!! Twas a nice evning in Dex!!!!!

On December 8th I was at my house and my phone rang at 7:40 in the morning.  I answered the phone and it was a friend of mine.  He said Qtip get outside there is a nice buck out in youre field with a doe and a spike horn.  I ran out the door and looked out in the field.  Sure enough I could see all three standing in the field.  I watched the deer as they ran across the field to the south to the fence row. 

The doe was hot and the spike horn was trying to get a chance at her.  The doe bedded down in the fence row and the 10 point stood by keeping the spike horn away.  I watched the spike try numerous times to sneak in.  The larger buck would lower his head and run him off.  '

I phoned a friend and asked what he was doing and to see if he was busy.  I told him I had a buck across the road with a doe and thought if he came up I may get a crack at him with the smoke pole.  He told me he had to drop his daughter off at the babysitter and he would be on his way.

Forty five minutes later my friend pulled in my driveway.  I told him that I hadnt seen the deer for about 10 minutes but the snow coming down made it hard to see.  We quickly came up with a plan to try and get close to them.  The fence row ran east to west and the wind was coming out of the south.

We decided that I would go to the east end of the fence row and he would go to the west end.  I walked about 200 yards down the fence row to the west and found me a good vantage spot.  I figured i was probaly about 200 yards from where i had last seen the deer.

My friend started to ease his way towards me and the deer.  As he got about 350 yards from me the spike horn came out of the fence row and ran right towards me.  He stopped at 30 yards away stood there and ran off.  Thinking in my head if the big boy does that its all done for him, no more chasing tail.  My friend began to move towards me again.  300 yards away no sign of the deer.  I was starting to get nervous had the doe led the buck away.  275 yards still nothing.  Now I was for sure the deer was gone.  Now my friend was about 250 yards away and then I saw him.  He stepped out into the field looked at my friend and just stood there.  I had told my friend if he goes any way but east shoot him.

The buck then turned back towards the fence row and i saw the doe.  She had walked out into the field and turned east towards me.  The deer then got nervous and started to trot towards me.  125 yards away and closing, i lost sight of the deer because of a little hill.  Then they broke out 75 yards away still trotting.  At 50 yards the doe and buck stopped turned broadside and looked back at my friend.  I pulled the smoke pull to my shoulder put the cross hairs on his shoulder and squeezed the trigger.  The smoke filled the air and I heard a loud thud.  The smoke cleared and the doe was running off.  No sign of the buck. Then i saw him he was in a pile right where he stood. 

I heard my friend hollering and we both walked over to the deer.  It ended up being a 10 point 15 inches wide.  It is the biggest buck I have killed with a smoke pole.  I was so excited finally a plan of how to get close to a nice buck worked out.  It couldnt have happened any better. 

The picture is not very good here it made it look pretty small.  I will post another one. 

I love it when a plan comes together!!!!  Congrats!