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11/02/2000	Doe	Lancaster, SC	7mm mag Rem	Morning	20 yards
When we leased the land to form the Briarpatch Hunt Club, we were sure that we were opening up the opportunity to have a great deer season. As the rifle season came in and the drought increased, we began to get very discouraged with hunting because we just weren't seeing any deer. I had made a guess to try to pinpoint the week of the rut, and had taken four days off from work to do some serious hunting. On the first three days of hard hunting, I didn't see a single deer. So, on the morning of the fourth day, I decided to hunt from a box blind on Walker Road, the dirt road that adjoins our lease. Deer are always crossing this road, so I thought that it would be a good place to hunt. At 6:45 am, I saw my first deer of the morning, a medium sized doe that crossed the road in front of my stand. I decided to let her pass, and kept watching for more deer. It wasn't long before a buttonhead came walking across the road, probably following the first doe. As I was watching this young buck, I heard a movement in the woods to my left. I looked through the door of the blind, and saw a good sized doe standing motionless in the woods not 20 yards from me. She stood still for a moment, then with a twitch of her ear and another of her tail, she began to move off toward the road. As she slipped out of sight, I released the safety on my rifle and pointed it towards where she would emerge from the woods. As she stuck her head out, I centered the scope and confirmed that it was a doe. When she took the next step, I fired, and she fell in her tracks. I only waited a couple of minutes before I walked over and tagged her with one of my general doe tags. She was a good sized doe, but I had shot her on top of a high shoulder overlooking the road, so it was an easy matter to load her up onto my four wheeler and take her back to the house.

11/02/2000

Doe

Lancaster, SC

7mm mag Rem

Morning

20 yards

When we leased the land to form the Briarpatch Hunt Club, we were sure that we were opening up the opportunity to have a great deer season. As the rifle season came in and the drought increased, we began to get very discouraged with hunting because we just weren't seeing any deer. I had made a guess to try to pinpoint the week of the rut, and had taken four days off from work to do some serious hunting.

On the first three days of hard hunting, I didn't see a single deer. So, on the morning of the fourth day, I decided to hunt from a box blind on Walker Road, the dirt road that adjoins our lease. Deer are always crossing this road, so I thought that it would be a good place to hunt.

At 6:45 am, I saw my first deer of the morning, a medium sized doe that crossed the road in front of my stand. I decided to let her pass, and kept watching for more deer. It wasn't long before a buttonhead came walking across the road, probably following the first doe. As I was watching this young buck, I heard a movement in the woods to my left.

I looked through the door of the blind, and saw a good sized doe standing motionless in the woods not 20 yards from me. She stood still for a moment, then with a twitch of her ear and another of her tail, she began to move off toward the road. As she slipped out of sight, I released the safety on my rifle and pointed it towards where she would emerge from the woods.

As she stuck her head out, I centered the scope and confirmed that it was a doe. When she took the next step, I fired, and she fell in her tracks. I only waited a couple of minutes before I walked over and tagged her with one of my general doe tags. She was a good sized doe, but I had shot her on top of a high shoulder overlooking the road, so it was an easy matter to load her up onto my four wheeler and take her back to the house.