[charlie cleveland]

sliped on the red checked hunting coat that destrey got for me this evening gotmy gun and shells and crawled aboard the old artic cat...was at my hunting spot in about 10 minutes got into the shooting house and loaded up the old 7 x57 r settled back just enjoying the view all of a sudden i seen a flash of something it turned out to be a large gray squirl..this fellow entertained me for over a hour .... at 4 30 got my bleat call gave a couple calls in less than one minute out of the woods into a large doe came..she was very nervous as there was some dogs barking in the distance...slowly she came across the field i slowly pushed the safty off theold gun i had preset the rifles trigger...in other words a set trigger... i drew the scope to my eye and pulled the cross hairs just behindthe front leg and just lightly touched the trigger...i was suprized that the doe did not fall in her tracks but she ran for about50 steps before colapseing... she was a large doe between 90 and 100 lbs i watched her long enough to make sure she had no young with her.. she had notraised any young ones this year she was old enough just one of them things i guess... as usal had forgot my drag rope so my son loaned me his large leather belt to drag her with about 30 steps we loaded her up in my sons pickup and as of rite now shes headed for the deep freeze...i had let this deer pass monday evening but could not let her pass the 2 nd time... charlie