Jon and I got up extra early for this hunt; we were both too exited to get any sleep because we had been seeing these elusive snow bucks for the past couple of days. Due to the short snow deer season, we knew the we had a very small window of time to land one or two of them and we really wanted to stuff our freezers full…of ice cubes.

We started by setting up our tree stands on the roof of my hunting lodge that sits on about 1/16 of an acre. It was a beautiful morning, there was a light dusting of snow falling, barely any wind, and a perfect 34 degrees. Once we got settled in, it didn’t take long, Jon had just taken a sip of his coffee when the first doe stepped into the yard the field. She was quickly followed by Jon’s huge buck. Jon was so fired up he almost dropped his bow off the roof tree stand. He recovered quickly; drew back his 2007 Black Ice and landed a perfect shot!

It wasn’t long after Jon’s buck went down that I had my opportunity. We had just got back up to the stand and settled when my monster buck hopped over the 7′ fence that lines my backyard property. We sat as still as possible as he grazed around a bit, just as I drew back my 2007 BowTech Guardian, he must have caught a whiff of us becuase he took off like a screamin’ banshee. He was at full sprint and just before he jumped over the fence again, I let my arrow fly. The shot was a little high, but it dropped him. He was running so fast that when the arrow hit, he slid into my fence and busted 3 boards! It was all worth it though; you don’t get chances at snow deer very often and when you can capitalize on the opportunity there is no greater feeling!