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Brooks Johnson
 Brooks
returned to the Pipelne an hour before light. Keith Beam was on the video.
At good enough light for video Brooks rattled briefly. Brooks sat the horns
down and immediately Keith saw a buck approaching 150 yards away. The buck
came slowly and stopped 20 yards broadside but from the side of the blind
Books was sitting on so there was no chance for a shot. (One of the pearls
of hunting with someone who is videoing.)
The buck walked toward the
blind and stopped 7 yards from it and looked for the source of the sound.
Woops, the buck caught the reflection from the camera lens and turned and
started walking off ... which gave Brooks a perfect shot angle. His arrow
found the mark and the buck dropped within sight.
Brooks Johnson with his
Texas buck taken from his Double Bull ground blind.
THE DAY BEFORE:
Brooks and I (Robert Hoague)
went to the Pipeline and Brooks set up his Double Bull blind. He found
an area with a lot of cedars and trimmed out a space for the blind and
set it up. He took some cedar branches and placed just enough brush to
break up the outline of the blind. Then he trimmed a little more for viewing
and shooting from the blind.
We got inside and set up
the video and got ready. In 10 minutes Brooks said, "There's a buck."
The buck walked right up,
17 yards away and stopped. "He looked like a 3-D target out there."
He was looking straight down
the pipeline. Brooks checked to see if I had the video right, it looked
good, so he readied himself for the shot. Picking a spot low on the deer's
belly he "let it fly". As soon as the arrow left the string the "buck tried
to bang his belly on the ground" and Brooks wasn't taking home any venison.
The buck ducked his arrow!
Brooks was shooting a longbow
today, with a 500 grain arrow flying at 175 FPS and the buck was able to
duck it. Brooks said, "It is amazing how much the deer in Texas can
drop. It's like they are spring loaded."
An hour later we saw a group
of wild turkeys on the opposite edge of the pipeline. Brooks brought them
right to us, using whistling sounds to imitate the high sound a lost poult.
There were more than we thought, a couple dozen. They got videoed as they
walked up to 5 yards, but they were to our left where Brooks could not
shoot. The turkeys finally went through the fence on our left side and
went on their way.
OTHER DAYS
The other days Brooks hunted
different areas. In a couple of big open areas he saw deer but they were
not traveling where the blind was. He said, "I saw 6 other bucks, I would
have shot 3 of those if I had the chance. I also saw 15 does and 3 flocks
of wild turkeys."
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