if only i had this kind of luck

[delawareriver]

my grand fathers friend friend, a former pastor from my church, was hunting down in NC. he was hunting and saw a decent 8 point buck come out made a great shot and the deer drops about 15 yards away. he gets down and walks over to the deer and starts gutting it as he hears a noise in the brush, he gets back to his treestand and a doe walks out. he chuckles softly thinking he just got all nervous over the small doe but then a very large 11 point bucks walks out behing the doe. needless to say he makes another greta shot and puts the deer down. so now he has some meat and 2 deer to hang on the wall all in about 15 mins of hunting. both deer were over 200lbs so they were big deer. now only if i had his luck!

[derbycitycatman]

Wish we were allowed two bucks a year. Man, thats some luck.

[Mathersm]

My bro had a similar expierience last year getting a buck and a doe within a halfour with a blackpowder rifle. And to think the gun didn't fire the first 2 times he tried. I think he got the second deer after tracking the first one he shot.

[cats4uandme]

that looks like a pretty good size buck your holding derby. what did it score??

[jim]

I have "experienced" that kind of luck before.My wife ,now deceased, decided after taking my Browning O/U skeet gun and becoming a AA shooter,that she would take up deer hunting with me when we were at FT.Hood Texas.She sorted through my gun collection , passed by the Weatherbys and selected a Rem 700 BDL Varmint Model 22/250 which was legal for deer and decided that was her gun.She of course became proficient with it in short order and we signed up for a hunt on the base.At Ft.Hood you are taken out by guides and put on stands.We climbed up in the pre-dawn darkness,the stand was an old range tower so she curled up with her blanket and promptly went to sleep while I humped rifles binos, seats etc etc up the steps.At first lite there was a doe about 100yds from the stand so I nudged her awake and told her to take the shot.I'm looking thru the binos ,waitng for the bang which didn't come so I look over and she is putting on lipstick and checking her self in the mirror.Finally she picks up rifle and while I am saying ,breath squeeeeeeze,POW she shoots.Doe drops instantly,I all proud and excited,OK OK I give her a big kiss and glance out at the doe and there stands a nice and I mean nice 8 point.I turn to tell her and; POW!!! buck drops like a stone.WOW now she is excited,we are both carrying on and I'M getting my knife etc to start gutting and am 1/2 way down the steps when; POW!!!.Scares me half to death,another buck even bigger has stepped out and is now dead.Climb back up make sure the rifle is on safe,look over just in time to see BIG bobcat jump on one of the deer and begin tearing it up.I'm ready this time:POW!!! Bobcat joins ancestors and is now laying on buck. It's getting hard to breath for all the gunsmoke and I'm mentally counting our available remaining ammunition in case a Zebra or something steps out,and wondering if 22/250 is legal for Zebra.Sounds of the great battle finally fade and I climb down to go gut everything. Of course the chief executioner for Ft.Hood is not going to assist with the dirty work and is in fact busy restoring her hairdo to pristine condition.I gut everything drag it all back to the stand and somehow hang all the deer from the crossbar provided, stagger back up the steps to find spouse calmly reading a paperback,wondering what all the fuss is over this deer hunting thing.Fall to the floor exhausted,pull blanket over head and fall asleep to be promptly booted awake 30 seconds later by Daniela Boone,who tells me to go down and close the eyes on all the deer because she doesn't like them looking at her.Weather channel reports the air turned blue from an apparent "ColdFront" over central Texas and I know I invented some curse words but do it anyway.Real rucus starts when guide comes to pick us up in the 3/4 ton truck with the other hunters who hadn't seen anything.One of them suggests out loud that she didn't shoot the deer I did. I quickly remove rifle from spouses hand.Its a 30 min trip back to the Rod and Gun club and I promise you when the truck stopped, actually before it stopped the other hunters unloaded in a hurry having heard the ancestory of the offender called in to question for 30 straight minutes.Did I mention she was a redhead?To this day it is the darndest run of luck I ever heard of.Every time I handle that rifle and it hasn't been fired since nor will it be that whole memory comes back.