Noland Outdoors

Jason Eatman and I decided to brave the elements and venture out to our hunting lease on a very wet afternoon on November 27th.  The radar showed that there would be a break in the rain for the afternoon. Unfortunately that break lasted all of about 15 minutes.  The forecast called for falling temps due to an approaching cold front so we figured that would get the deer up and moving. Undaunted, we headed into the woods, me with my compound bow and Goose with his longbow.  I got settled into my stand overlooking some scrapes on a major trail in a pine plantation at 2:40pm.  I had no sooner got an arrow nocked when this beautiful deer stepped out on the trail.  I quickly came to full draw, bleated to stop him and sent the arrow on it's way.  The shot was true and 60 yards later I had my prize.  The blood trail was difficult to follow because of the wet conditions but thankfully I was able to locate the deer by following a well used trail.