Got up 4am had coffee went out to Stafford State land , had my climber on my back, got up in the tree @ 5:50 with my Ithaca 87 and sat there till 6:08 when it's legal shooting.
I looked and saw a deer about 70 yards but not a clean shot so figured it might turn in a circle and come back.
Sure as shit it came back and at 60 yards while on the move I raised my shotgun aimed the 2.5 power scope towards him and yelled "hey" that gave me .05 seconds to put the cross hairs on him and next thing I saw was a big flash in my scope at 6:24 am. The shot appeared to flip the deer and dropped right there.
When I walked over this is what I found.
That reads 193 lbs.
Not bad for state land opening day!
Took three of us 4 hours to drag and 4 to lift into my truck.
Full sholder mount for sure!