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So it’s Friday Morning before opening day, I have a big day planned, there is a cattle sale in Faith, and I’m in need of some more big black angus mommas, so I go out to make my daily circle, and just South of my home, right along the highway there has been a large herd of does hanging around. I decided to go see if any Bucks had moved in yet. Sure enough there is a big one, he is way out passed his ears and has a thick neck and huge shoulders, this is a wallhanger, at least for this part of the country. I know deer season opens in the morning and I know people are driving up and down the highway scouting. There is no way he’s going to make it until Saturday, to many people with Buck Fever, that have no regards for property boundaries. However I have things to do, so I high tail it to Faith for the sale.

When the sale is over I hurry back to the ranch, I have a busy morning planned and we are holding off on Deer Camp until the following weekend. I go to see if I can find the buck, he is nowhere to be seen, I’m sure someone took a shot at him, and ran the herd off, but that’s hunting.

The next morning, I have to turn out the cows I bought, as soon as the trucks get there, I’m suppose to help my neighbors ship calves, and my wife went on a shopping spree in Rapid so I have all 3 boys to take care of. I wake up at 4am, about 2.5 hours before sunup. I’m trying to figure out where that buck could have gone, I’ve already talked my mother into watching the 2 younger boys, I tell her, “I’ll have them there at sunup” believe me I wasn’t a second late on that promise. The little ones are taken care of, I call the trucker he says he is about 45 minutes out. I tell my oldest, “lets go look for that buck”. Sure enough, he was headed right back for his spot by the highway, I’m a little torn because my buddies are coming for Deer Camp and I hate to shoot my deer without them, but this idiot is not going to live another week so I pull out my rifle and step out of the truck, telling JJ to stay and when I call him bring the pickup. Everything worked perfect, dropped him with one shot, took some pictures and had him gutted and loaded before the trucks arrived with my cows.

Look out Jim Shockey

I went to the neighbors and helped them get trucks loaded, then stopped and talked to some buddies, and show off a little. Then hung the deer, fed some cows, got the kids, and finally skinned and deboned the deer, due to the heat. He is 100% on ice now. Not exactly how I would have wrote the story from scratch but this is how it happened, heck I didn’t even cammo up and I have a lot of money spent on cammo. This will give me more time to run the video during Deer Camp next week. Stay tuned for round 2 of our Video Adventures.