Noland Outdoors

Mike Williams took this nice 7pt buck yesterday afternoon (1/9/10) with his new 12 gauge slug gun.  Mike and I were hunting about 200 yards apart and his shot nearly made me fall out of my tree.  It was the coldest afternoon hunt I'd ever experienced, with the temp never getting out of the 20's and a stiff NW breeze.  Mike's first indication that a deer was approaching was the crunching sound the deer made when it walked, and it wasn't leaves crunching.  It was the frozen ground near the water's edge!  Mike made a perfect 60yd shot at 3:20pm on this nice buck and it dropped in it's tracks.  It would have been a perfect 8pt had the deer not had one of it's brow tines broken off from fighting.  It was a classic January hunt.  Congratulations Mike!