Saturday, December 24, 2011

Simon's First Deer






12/21/2011

After doing 3 louisiana swamp tours yesterday, I was ready for a relaxing evening at home. But instead we were called onto the blood trail of a 10 pt buck and Simon found his first deer.

Pope and Young score of 136 1/8



A proud, happy young lady with her first bow kill!

After my older and more experienced dog was unable to focus on the blood due to the fact that he had gorged himself on raw meat and kibble the night before, I went and dropped him back to the truck and took a 2 year old who had never found a deer in his life.



The 2 year old was hungry, and had found the deer, and was growling in the thicket before we got the big surprise that it was a high scoring trophy. The briars were intense and we were slow moving. The brush was so intense, that after we had found the deer, we had only drug this 10 pt 25 yds in 1 hour!



Everywhere we turned were briar patches, and downed trees. It was an ordeal for 5 healthy young people to move this deer the 125 yds to the food plot where the going got a lot easier. When we got to the food plot, I asked someone; "What time is it about 10:30?" And they replied; "12:30!" Ohh well, time flies when you are having fun!





Deer traveled almost 400 yards after the shot according to GPS. Caught liver and 1 lung no pass through. We found the deer 5 hours later deer was very stiff. Had been dead a while.





It took several very determined folks on all fours crawling on several occasions to bring this beautiful deer in.

The buck went 100-200 yards without bleeding a drop! Bullet(a hunters nickname) found the first magic drop of blood, without that, this story could have turned out a lot differently.

Nothing like the words "There he is".

Awesome!


Simon's first deer.



I travel the entire state of Louisiana to track wounded deer for hire and I sell puppies and started dogs.

Marcus de la Houssaye
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