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A Real Thanksgiving For The Roberts Family...Dats Me...Dontchano...Eh!

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El Destructo:
Well Wednesday night my Wife and I were talking about the Kids coming Home for Thanksgiving....and She asked me if I was going to go out Hunting in the Morning..I told Her I hadn't decided yet...She told Me the kids would not be in till later in the Day...and I should go to the Willow Swamp...(this one spot that We had checked out on my new Lease)...there was a couple nice rubs...and one spot that reeked of dominant Buck...if you ever wandered upon a spot like this ...you know what I am talking about! So it was decided that I was going in the Morning...

Thanksgiving Morning...4am....Colder than a Well Diggers Ass....13 degrees...80 percent humidity....I get up...look outside...and head back to Bed...sheets are still warm...ahhh! Lay there...and start thinking...what if that Big 12 is the one that rubbed that Will to tears....so I get up...make Coffee...get dressed...pack the Truck...and my Catalytic Heater (really primitive ...huh!)...and head for the Lease...

I get to my spot...sit in my makeshift Blind...light my Heater...I got so damned many clothes on I can barely Breath from the Weight (lmao)....30 minutes later....my knees are knocking...and I am dreaming of them warm Sheet...and putting my freezing feet in the middle of my Wife's Back.....so I go back to the Truck and retrieve the Blanket thats always packed there for emergencies...and other stupid occasions like this....I get back...huddle with the Blanket over the Heater for warmth....it's now Daybreak...Daylight in da Swamp.....nuthin...knees still knocking....about 7:45...I have had all the Fun I can take...this Hunting Crap is for Kids and Dogs...not 52 year old crippled Sissies like Me!

I pack my Backpack back up...turn off my Heater...fold up the Blanket...and get ready to stand up...when I caught movement to the left and below me in the canyon...some 70 yards away....it's a big Whitetail Doe...she's feeding on the Corn I had thrown out two days before....now I start to warm up...then two more Doe come running in like being chased.....they stop and start to feed....now I am thinking about taking the largest Doe...got to get something this Season...might as well be tender! Then I see a tree just whipping around...but I can't see anything but the Top thrashing....I get my B-Noc's out...to have a look See...but nothing....my Heart is pumping because I know it's got to be a Buck...ain't no Cattle on this Section of land......I put down the B-Noc's...pick up my 45-70 Contender...and get ready....the Doe are looking the way of the thrashing Tree...and then....He comes running out...head damned near dragging the Ground...lip curled upwards...and runs straight into His Harem of Doe...They scatter in all directions....then He makes His Final Mistake....He Stopped....For a Split Second....I don't even remember aiming...or pulling the Trigger for that matter...just heard the Roar...watch this mighty King of the Woods leap ..took three good jumps....and folded up after just twenty yards....

I had no Idea He was as big as He was...till I got down there next to Him...I was awestruck...12 Points...22 1/2" wide...main beams are 23 inches long...it took me the next two and a half hours to get Him up out of that Canyon and loaded in the back on Our Truck..by myself....but I never once thought about the Cold again that Day!

El Destructo:
He dressed out at 217 pounds without his Hide

NTD:
Very nice.  Congrats and good story :)

Stoker:
Very nice buck.Great story  ;D
Thanks Leroy

sailordad:
Mike thats a fine looking buck ya got  ;)

you been down south to long if you thinks thats cold for hunting
i bet you can remember calling them days "warm weather hunting" before you moved south eh.

i sat out the other morning(no blind or heater,very unusall for me) from 6 o'clock untill 11 o'clock,i dont think it got upto 13 degrees at that time of day yet
i had a very large snot frozen moustache by time i made the 1.5 mile walk back to the truck.
got plans for that again tomorrow,but its supposed to be even colder (might take the blind/heater this time  ;D )

congrats on the nice hunt

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