For the past several years, Robbie Nickels of Searsmont has been playing a game of cat-and-mouse with a rather large deer while hunting on an island 5 miles off the Maine coast.
Nickels, 51, serves as the caretaker on Lasell Island, which is due east of Camden. And during frequent deer hunting adventures, he has been constantly outwitted by the eight-point buck.
Not any more. Kind of.
On Nov. 15, Nickels was hunting on the privately owned island, as was his adult daughter, Kristen.
Not long before sunset, while hunkered down near a stone wall, Nickels watched as his old nemesis came walking across a field, directly toward him.
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From Northwest Woodsman: Too bad that deer didn’t have the ability to shoot back. I’ll bet that hunter wouldn’t be so smug if it were made a real sport wherein he could be injured or killed. I had thirty months in combat. Try that sport sometime and quit being a wimp.
ReplyDeleteAre you on the wrong thread dude? Thanks for your service but WTH are you going on about?
DeleteLet me give you a trophy does that make it better.
DeleteGreat Story ! The Hunter Never Gave Up ..Showing The True Way To His Daughter!...God Bless All !
ReplyDeletewhat's missing? well for one thing it wasn't a clean shot, second when a deer lives to run that far it starts pumping adrenaline which ruins the taste of the meat. good thing he was just a trophy hunter. which I disagree with! hunting to feed your family is one thing, hunting for a trophy is another!
ReplyDeletePoor deer managed somehow to swim 5 miles in a freezing ocean just to eventually get killed.How can 148 acres be considered sportsmanlike?
ReplyDelete936 shut up and focus on something else
ReplyDeleteI'm with 9:36
ReplyDelete936 good for you 🙄
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