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Post by osprey on Dec 31, 2007 14:54:04 GMT -5
Okay fellas, what happened when y'all came down sika hunting?? You've been awfully quiet since then Fox, Deerhunter and Hardcore, so who fell in a hole? Or did you all dissapear in the muck, never to be heard from again, skeeters draining you dry?!?!  |
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Post by BuckMaster on Dec 31, 2007 21:30:33 GMT -5
Well I can say I have yet to take a sika but did make it out this past Sat. Hardcore and I made it over to some private land on the shore and he got a nice spike and shot a hind. I didnt see any but still had a great time and cant wait to get back on them next year. TheDeerHunter took the Buckwild Skiff over to Fishing Bay with a few guys and they did manage to see some.
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Post by cootshooter on Jan 1, 2008 16:53:17 GMT -5
I went over with my brother Thursday through Sat. He got a hind. I had two about 200 yds and wasn't comfortable with the shot. I will definitely be back again soon, even if its only to go back to the Cambridge Diner again! ;D Foxy told me he laid eyes on two of them!
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Post by davep on Jan 1, 2008 19:40:12 GMT -5
Congrats guys!
Now get some pics up.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Jan 1, 2008 20:01:37 GMT -5
After making it thru the thunder storm(and lightning) in the morning with out any sightings we headed back out in the afternoon. I set up in the same tree I shot my first sika out of in Oct. over looking a feeder. Last time evrything was bone dry this time everything was a foot or more under water. About an hour before dark I heard the splashing that got me pumped up. I saw two hinds that came in to 20 yards and were checking out the feeder. Then two more came then a spike then another hind. I waited and waited for a bigger stag to come in but I sunlight was starting to fade and I wanted to give myself plenty of tracking light. I wanted my first stag and at 20 yards he dropped in his tracks. All of the hinds but one took off, she kept watching me but wouldn't run so I reloaded. I put it to her at 40 yards and she staggered a bit and ran into the phrag. Tagged out. I drug the stag out and brought back help to track the hind, whom I heard doing her death kicks in the phrag. When we got back I couldn't remember exactly where I shot her. Its like shooting in a wide open field and then looking for blood in the dark. We went into the phrag looking and I almost immediatly took a branch directly into my eye cutting my eye across the black and the blue part. Not phrag but a short tree I didn't see because I was staring at the ground seperating the phrag with my hands as I walked forward.
The pain was intense and now I really couldn't get my barings. I believe now that we were looking to far down and not in the right spot. After 45 minutes more of findings no blood and my eye in absolute pain we called it quits and never found the hind. I believe if I could have come back in the morning we would have found her. After the long drive home I kept driving right to the emergency room where they cleaned my eye, said it would heal itself in a few weeks and gave me some percacet pain pills. I just took the patch off my eye today and it feels tons better! I'll get a pic of my spike up soon!
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Post by osprey on Jan 2, 2008 16:04:25 GMT -5
That's why we call 'em Devil Deer, they'll take their pound of flesh sometimes for sure!! I'm glad I wear glasses when I'm down there, I've had phrag stalks and branches and needle rush points glance off them more times than I care to remember... Glad you're felling better, although I'm sure you'll still milk it as an excuse for missing geese.  |
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Post by cootshooter on Jan 3, 2008 21:29:58 GMT -5
Here is the pic from my cell of the hind from the last day.  |
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