Well here in Western NY we have a few days of regular season left before late Archery/ muzzle loader season. After taking a nice buck last Thursday with the 30-30 I decided last night that I would take my sidekick with me today. We had some really heavy snow this past week (16 inches on Mon. and Tues.) so I decided to try some of the state land near me that I was seeing alot of deer in this summer. I got there at about 10 after 7 and started finding alot of tracks from last night. I started following them real slow and after about an hour and a half I found the first bedding area and counted 27 beds, six that were fresh. I started tracking again and came to another bedding area and counted 19 more beds. It had snowed about 2 more inches throughout the night so there was alot of snow still on the branches making it hard to see what was ahead of me. I knew that there were deer moving because I was following fresh tracks. After about half an hour of not being able to see anything moving I started heading to the truck planning to come back this evening after some wind knocked some of the snow down. I was about 200 yards from the truck when i saw some movement off to my left. Looking over I could make out 4 deer moving through the trees. I picked an opening and waited for them to enter it. When they did I made a small bleat to get them to stop. I picked the largest doe and fired from a distance of about 60 yards. After the smoke and falling snow cleared i was able to see here laying there. 1 shot from the Sidekick and she dropped in here tracks. When I got her home I hung her on the scale and was very pleased to see that she weighed in at 147 pounds with the hide still on. Once again I am very impressed with the way a NEF shoots. Out of the past 9 deer I have taken 5 have gone down with one shot from a NEF. One was with another rifle and the other 3 were with a bow.
