I had a shoulder arthritic flair up this week and was unable to even take off my jacket let alone drag a deer. BUT there are tags to fill. I got some steroids from the walk inn and planed a trip. My wonderful son said he would love to come and help my drag. I was looking to fill a spc Mule deer doe tag. It's in a hard unit to hunt very little access to public land. We knew a spot that right along the road but you cant see the HUGE drainage form the road and it close to a mile walk in only to GET to where you start to hunt. It's always full of does looking for a hiding place, seldom bucks for what ever reason. We walked the drainage along the top peeking down in to the brakes as we go keeping off the skyline. At the very las brake coming down we spotted 4 deer travailing in to bed down for the morning after all night of feeding, Full Moon. They did not see us I set up my son was on the range finder reading me off the yardage, there are no fences marking the public land and privet so he was also on the on X. As soon as we knew they where on public it was 250 yards, I was dialing up the yardage on the Leopold. They still had no idea we are high above them bearing down on them. It look like there were not going to stop. All this only taking moments The boy lets out a coyote stopping "Bark". It a few deer steps for the sound to get to them, when it did they stopped and snapped there Heads and looked right at us as they stopped. I was held tight on the larger buck he stopped in mid step. It was quartered away from us hard, I aimed at were the off shoulder should be, which meant the bullet inters just in front of his on side hip. It came out in the off side shoulder arm pit. Down it went. I did not say there was 5" of Icey snow on the steep slope did I?  Down he went alright, to the bottom of the drainage. DANG. If it was not for my son I would have had to bring him out by the steak. He drug it up and out to the truck as I carried the stuff. Hammer 200 gr sledge hammer at 3200 fps worked well. It did not hit the guts  because of my elevation over the deer I guess. It turned the liver, lungs, and heart in to a well blended blood smoothy.

LOL

another good hunting story d. 

pain is not fun to deal with under those conditions.

good job!!!to both of you.