Cynthia Colon - 2003 Ohio Deer Hunt 

by Jon Ickes

Cynthia was hunting (on November 10, 2003) along the edge of the swamp in Jackson County, Ohio.  She was in a ladder stand that that had been set early in the season.  The stand had seen quite a bit of activity and there had been glimpses of some pretty large deer including the day the stand was set.

    
Doug Crabtree Sr. and Cynthia Colon on November 10, 2003
  
On the Friday before November 10, Cody and I put a hanger next to the ladder stand in the same tree.  Right after hanging the stand a deer approached us from the West and stood looking at us from beside a tree about 35 yards away.  (We would see the same big-bodied deer with the chocalate colored rack about five days later.)  We hunted the whole weekend and Cynthia decided to stay a few extra days due to the buck activity we were seeing.  (Poor Cody and I had to go back to school and work.)
 
During her evening hunt, with Doug Crabtree Sr. on the rattling horns and sitting in the hanger stand. They didn't see anything until almost quitting time.  Doug alerted her that a deer was coming towards the stand. She could not see him because the deer was directly behind her.  She stood and waited.  

Cynthia whispered to Doug, "Is it a buck or doe".  Doug, now eyelocked with this nice buck, could not respond.  Cynthia saw the deer almost directly under the tree and drew.  (She still didn't know it was a buck until she had her pin locked on the kill zone.) She released and the buck piled up thirty-five yards uphill from the stand. 
 
When she came home she held out her bloody hand with the undisputable evidence that she had placed her shot well; a heart with the four-bladed (Muzzy) cut directly in the middle.  (She also produced a large set of bloody testicles.)