Just arrived home from a week long muzzleloader hunt in N. Ontario. Was fortunate to shoot a decent buck, but not the one I was after. I found a pair of sheds lying side by side in a finger of cover running into marsh grass in a dried up beaver pond. The finger had several rubs and lots of beds in the marsh grass, so I made up a ground blind out of balsam boughs back to the east of the finger as the wind was to be w/sw for the next couple days. After letting it rest a day before hunting, the first day went by without seeing a deer in the 10.5 hours in the blind. At 11 am on the second day, immediately following some horn rattling with the sheds, I noticed some movement in the marsh grass. In a few seconds I could see the back of a deer moving my way. The upper half of the mahogany rack then came into view as he worked his way thru the maize of poplar downfalls left by the beavers. I had already made up my mind that he was a "shooter", so when he cleared the last of the marsh and stepped up into the poplar saplings, facing nearly straight on to me, I found a clear path to his neck and took the shot at 30 yards. When the smoked cleared, the buck was down with hardly a movement.
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Nice buck, congrats!
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Nice Buck. Do you hunt your own property in Can. or use an outfitter ?
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Quote from: redarrow on October 28, 2011, 05:48:31 PM
Nice Buck. Do you hunt your own property in Can. or use an outfitter ?
We stay with an outfitter but hunt on our own. You can only do that in certain WMU's in Ontario.
If you don't mind could you PM me with the outfitter info. Ive bear hunted Ont.and a deer hunt sounds interesting.
thats a gooodn !!! :icon_thumright:
brian
Congrats on a nice buck!
Congrats. Muzzleloader don't start until next week where I am at in Ontario.
Congrats on smoking one!
Congrats!
Congrats on a fine deer! :icon_thumright: