January 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments
I get cold just looking at the picture. Jon Smith killed this deer in Illinois the weekend before Christmas. He said he didn’t get the “sure enough biggun” he was after in November, but he managed to get an arrow into this one. Jon wasn’t completely satisfied with the shot; he felt he’d hit the deer a little too far back in the body. He decided to leave the deer overnight and search for him in daylight. He found him all right, frozen solid in the creek where he died. The temperature got down to zero during the night, and the wind chill was around minus 20. That’s cold, y’all, and Jon said it was even colder when he was chopping the deer out of the frozen creek. The buck was solid to the eyeballs.
If Jon didn’t look so tired in the photo, I’d say he bought that deer out of a walk-in freezer. Mr. President, you earned that one!
Tags: Bowhunting · Whitetail Deer Hunting
Scott Overman harvested this deer on New Year’s Eve while participating in a quota hunt in south Georgia. The rack, a main frame 8 with a kicker on the G2 to make him a nine point, will score over 130. He was very old, with an estimated age of over 5.5 years, and he may have been as old as 7.5 years. Way to go, Scott! Now somebody tell me what a “G2″ is. It sounds like a new model number for a street bike.
Tags: Whitetail Deer Hunting
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
- John Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Tags: Words of Wisdom
