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lack Friday – the day after Thanksgiving – might be a shopper’s holiday, but to my family and friends, it is a day off work solely dedicated to deer hunting. Black Friday of 2006 dawned with me sitting in one of my favorite deer haunts: a finger of land adjoining a hogsback, where the hardwoods drift downslope into the brushy swamp. I’d taken a good number of bucks and
does from that general area, and I was feeling lucky that morning. But with the exception of a spastic gray squirrel, there was nothing moving. And I mean nothing. With temps starting in the low 30s at dawn, and only barely cracking the 40-degree mark by 11:30 a.m., my dad had seen enough, and messaged me that he was leaving for lunch. I told him I intended to stay for the day. It wasn’t 10 minutes later that I heard his shrill whistle, a couple hundred yards over the hogsback. Looking in that direction, I saw a doe
crest the ridge and immediately knew Dad had jumped deer on his way back to his truck. Another doe appeared, a bit more motivated than the first, and the buck followed. In the noon light, puffing like a thoroughbred in the home stretch, came the mature eight-point buck with really vibrant antlers. I swung the Winchester Model 70 – a Classic Stainless version, chambered in .300 Winchester Magnum – and broke the crisp trigger. No reaction from the running buck whatsoever. I sent americanshootingjournal.com 55
