August 7, 2007
I love shooting deer in August
I've been seeing a lot of deer on evening bike rides so I decided to go out Monday evening with my camera -- in a vehicle -- and even got my wife and girls to come along on our little deer "hunt."
First we hit the Blue Ridge Parkway at Roanoke Mountain and headed north. Didn't see squat. It was a different story at Explore Park. We probably saw 15 different deer in the main fields there just off the Parkway. Mark my words, whoever manages that place is going to have to implement a controlled hunt one of these years because those deer are going to hammer the habitat. All of the deer were pretty far away but I did manage to get some OK shots of two little four-pointers that were about 100 yards away.
We left the Parkway at Route 24 and headed into Bedford County, toward a place out there where I do some hunting. We saw a number of deer, including this guy who was right next to the road. I was able to get two shots off before he bolted. I shot this hand-held at 1/10th of a second shutter speed with a 400mm lens so I was pretty happy the shot wasn't any softer.
I'll do this a few more times this month and would like to see some big bucks, especially around areas where I hunt. Of course, that doesn't mean I'll see them come October.
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