What a day Friday was!

[Riflemanz]

I get to our land and first thing I see is that someone cut a tree down across our fire lane which the farmer also uses. I head to my 18' stand but it's gone, my buddy's stand is gone, my two cut up ladders are gone, my deer cart is gone and two cameras are gone along with safety lines. So I head to a further away stand to hunt seeing how it's 50* and cloudy. I climb up pull up my bow, load an arrow and I start to hang up the quiver when I hear a deer heading my way, it's a small button buck but I decided to pop him to get some fresh tenderloins. I shoot him thru the lungs and he goes 30 yds and crashes. I used a 3 blade 2" cut head trauma freak nasty.
My buddy calls me and he shot a doe. As I'm trying to cock my bow in the stand a doe walks up and looks at me at 10yds but I can't get it cocked without moving so she walks away. After the hunt my buddy calls the land owner to tell him what happened and he says he has a new caretaker for his 116 acres and his golf dome which he watches for vandalism for him and he forgot to tell him we were hunting out there. So it turns out this guy took all of our stuff thinking we were trespassing on the land.we hope to get it back today! What a day!

[deadeer]

Nice that he was doing his job, but damn. He could of asked before he went doing all that! I wouldnt be in such good spirits, but I havent killed a deer yet either. Lol. Good job on the deer, guys.

[wabi]

Congratulations on getting meat!
Sounds like the caretaker is doing his job which could turn out to be a good thing for you in the long run.

[xcaliber]

Lucky times 1,000! Congrats Steve, glad to hear your stuff will be returned.

[acreek]

That's the first time I have ever heard anyone say they purposefully shot a button buck. Haha. I don't think young deer taste as good as deer a few years older. They seem bland and watery to me. So even when I'm hunting for a doe I'm looking for one that's 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 years old.

Hope you get all of your stuff back from the caretaker who seemed to have a bit of a knee jerk reaction. The dude obviously should have checked with the landowner to see if permission to hunt was given out. That's crazy. I've dealt with a few of these land caretaker types before and half the time they demonstrate themselves to be individuals of questionable character and/or they lack a healthy amount of common sense. Good luck to your hunting party and the landowner. I hope the caretaker hasn't "sold" your equipment yet.

[W.Miguire]

your one lucky Dude. congrats on your deer .
W.M.

[Riflemanz]

Our deer are all corn fed and soy beans! There is no such thing as a bad tasting deer here! I fried up some tenderloin last night and it was very good!

[mr meat]

Congrats on the deer and finding your stands!

[longbow joe]

Wow ....what a day

[vixenmaster]

Our deer are all corn fed and soy beans! There is no such thing as a bad tasting deer here! I fried up some tenderloin last night and it was very good!

Congrats on that tasty deer you killed. Glad to hear the care taker had gathered up y'alls stuff n not a thief