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Eric Morken, Alexandria: Morning in the woods

November 18, 2008 at 10:43PM
Gary Morken of Cottonwood
Gary Morken of Cottonwood (Dml -/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

This big eight-pointer came through the woods at about 7:30 a.m. on the other side of a dry riverbed where I was sitting in my stand on opening morning in Yellow Medicine County. He came in very slowly with his ears drooped and tail down as if he had been injured. When he got to the edge of the dry riverbed, he bedded down and I just watched him for about 15 minutes.

I never had a clear shot when he was walking, but he bedded down in a small opening where I had my only clear shot. I have never been in a situation like this, so I was not exactly sure how to handle it. I knew if he was injured that I did not want him to make his way further into the woods and die with us unable to find him, so I decided to try and put a kill shot on his neck.

My shot rolled him, but he surprised me and got to his feet and ran back towards a stand that my dad was hunting in about 150 yards away.

Not five seconds passed before I heard a single boom. The next sound I heard was the buzz of my cell phone as my dad, Gary, called to tell me that he had dropped the buck about 60 yards from his stand.

The height of the rack was even bigger then I had thought, with his G2's measuring almost exactly a foot long. After looking him over, we found that he had not been injured early that morning. He was just an old buck with gray in his face.

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