Scott, You hit the nail on the head. The two best days of deer season are the first and last days. Mine will be coming soon. It's a good day to reflect on a season past and good memories with family and friends.

that is a huge doe. Congrats!

Congrats on the big doe! Hunters are the only ones who understand in a blink of a eye the kill of a life time can appear!

Congrats. Nice doe. Very nice bow.

Spent a lot of days in the woods this year but those last days, with snow on the ground and no one else in the woods, are special. I missed the last day of season but was out the day before. Breathing in the crisp air, watching winter wildlife, and settling down from the holidays. Filling a tag at the end makes it especially sweet.

I need to get back out there again. Will take along a .22 in case some squirrels get curious and interrupt my daydreams.

Sometimes things just work out without all the planning. That is the best hunt of all! Congrats on a nice deer.

Scott it is rewarding to read a story by someone who truly knows what it is that make hunting so special. If a person can not enjoy all the small things that make up the joy of hunting I truly feel sorry for them. Congratulations!

Now that's hunting. This is what it's all about. Congrats on your fortune, and your last minute deer.

Scott,

What a great post... (and what a great wife!) I can't think of a better way of ending the season.

Sincerely,

Scott in Ohio

It seems like when you have the lowest expectations that things seem to happen. Great story and nice looking doe.

Congrats on finishing the season with that great doe! One thing about the end, you feel so alone and peaceful and it seems to take your mind back to an earlier, simpler time.

It brings a new appreciation for "real" hunting without hordes of orange clad people basically walking right into your favorite spot, you know the one best spot you've scouted and did your homework on, only to have a bunch of casual arrivals loudly pass through around 8 A.M. after you've been sitting quietly in the cold for the past 4 hours.

Nice venison!

here in illinois we still have saturday and sunday left so I am going all day saturday and maybe sunday. People are saying this is such a huge deer. Is it really because on the property I hunt this is on the small side

Congratulations!! Not on the huge doe becaue there are lots of huge deer. I congratulate you on finding such an understanding and loving wife. They are few and very far between. I had one like that for 46 years and I count her the greatest blessing the creator ever gave me. I hope you feel the same about your wife. Mine is gone now and I hope you and yours share as good a life as we did.

Congratulations Scott!
That is one heck of a doe. Nice way to end the season!

Although it is a sad day, it is fun to hunt on the last day of deer season and everyone should because you woun't be able to deer hunt again until fall.

congrats, im still holding a kentucky buck tag and had basicaly given up on that but this has inspired me to go get him, so i think ill be going down there this upcoming four day weekend. hope to get a nice buck and maybe even a doe, that way no tag is left unfilled

Thats one nice doe congrats on a great end to the season!

Awesome kill, and awesome hunt, can't beat bow hunting from the ground out of a make-shift ground blind. Congrats.

Many years ago, as a teenager, I decided to forgo all the hoopla of the New Years Eve celebration. Instead, I decided to start the new year off without a crowd and on the right note: New Years Day I climbed a tree and shot an arrow underneath one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen. The New Year hunt has been a habit of mine ever since. This year I watched ice slowly spread across a small stream I hunted by. I didn't see a deer, but I knew the year was beginning just right.