My best hunting year was the 1997-98 hunting season.  I killed three deer that year.  The deer you see above was a four point buck, he was my first for the season.

The way we hunt here in Louisiana is from either leaning stands, box stands or climbing tree stands.  We use rifle's as long as they are centerfire.  We can also use shot guns with buckshot.  I use a 270 rifle when I hunt in my stand.

The day I killed this buck I was sitting at a box stand when I saw movement beside my fire lane about fifty yards away.  I raised my scope to see what it was and saw a bobcat.  We normally try to kill all the bobcats because they kill the little fawns.  I zeroed in on the bobcat and shot.  I decided to get down from my stand and see if I had hit him.  When I went to the area where the bobcat had been, I saw that I had missed.  Then I turned and started to go to the house because I had been told that where there are bobcats there were no deer in the area.

As I was approching my stand a doe ran across the other side of the fire lane from  my stand.  I said to myself "there surely must be deer in the area, so what I was told can't be true."  So I climbed back up into my stand and waited.  I had been waiting for about ten or fifteen minutes, when I caught a movement about 100 yards down the fire lane.  I raised my rifle and zeroed my scope in on the area where I saw movement.

I realized that it was a buck even though he was standing on the edge of the woods.  I took the best shot that I could.  He darted across the fire lane and into the woods.  I thought at that time I had lost him.  I got down and went to where I had shot him and there was a fresh trail of blood.  I followed it across the fire lane into the woods and continued until I found him.  I then drug him to the fire lane and hooked him to a rope behind my four wheeler and brought him to the house.