And Then There Was Venison

According to the white tail deer bible (Field & Stream), the planets, stars and moon were all supposed to be aligned today (October 31) for a fabulous deer hunt.  The magazine stated that if you wanted to get a buck, today was the day you needed to be in the woods.  So of course, my husband decided to take the day off and be out on his deer stand before daylight this morning.  I received a phone call from him about 9:30 a.m. asking if Michael and I were dressed to come out in the woods.  I knew he got his deer...

Michael and I got dressed (mind you it was 37 degrees this morning which is alot warmer than last week - one morning it was 20 degrees!) and Russell walked back to get the 4-wheeler and take us out to his tree stand.  And this is what we found....a large bodied 6-point buck!

Michael didn't know what to think of at first, but then he warmed up to it and all he has said the rest of the day is "deer" and "buck".  After Russell field dressed the deer, we hung him in our shed ceiling for the night.  Russell found Michael in the shed later on in the day just staring upwards at the buck, not saying a thing, but just looking in amazement.

You know what we'll be doing tomorrow - cutting up venison!  Way to go Russell!