Sportsmen & Women
Whitetails, Hare's, Feathers and Scales!
Book written by lady deer hunter!
THE BUCK STOPS HERE - BULLETS, BROADHEADS, WHITETAILS AND ME! The book was written and dedicated to her 93 year old father, T. A. Harvell. He is not able to hunt with the family now, but she will always cherish and remember the times she walked behind him as a young girl. He was an avid quail hunter and used a double barrel "White" 12 gauge shotgun.
She was the oldest of seven children and although a girl, she followed him and the bird dogs on the hunting trips. After the dogs pointed a covey of quail, and upon his comand flushed them, she would watch where the singles would lite and tell him.
She enjoyed the outdoors and hunting trips so much, he gave her the first gun when she was eight years old, a Daisy BB Gun. Later she learned to shoot his 16 shot Remington automatic 22 long rifle, next he bought her a Stevens single shot 410, then it was a double barrel 12 gauge Winchester. Later she purchased a Remington 1100 automatic shotgun, but the most treasured gun she owns is the Marlin 30-30 Model 336 C. She has used the gun for 28 years and plans on using it again in 2008!
(The picture below is the Author and her Dad)! He drove his pickup truck nearby to where she shot her first deer, climbed over the fence and walked with her through the briars, under-bursh, then to the dead deer. He reached into his front pocket, pulled out his "old timer" knife and showed her how to field dress it. She attached the tag to one of the back legs, and they both drag it to the pickup truck, let the tail gate down, then loaded it. They drove to the nearest check station in Sallisaw, Oklahoma and checked it in.
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Muzzle loading season - 6 point - 99 lb. field dressed shot on November 4, 2007
The Thirty First whitetail buck wasn't anything to brag about, but it was one of the most exciting hunts of my life. The rut was hot and the bucks were chasing the doe's! I was sitting in my Cabella 21' partner stand on the second day of opening muzzle loading season. The stand was so much comfortable than the ones I had been using in the past.
The weather was just right and any deer hunter would have been "in hunter's paradies" that cool morning. About prime time, which was about 7:15 a.m., something caught my eye to the right! The two deer had slowly slipped out of the thick brush and appeared within 30 yards on my stand. I looked the buck over and seen that he had a perfect 6 point rack and decided to take him. I focused the scope and aimed for the heart/lung area and pulled the trigger on the 50 caliber Thompson Center in-line. Lo and behold the musket cap mis-fired and the two deer leaped back into the thick brush and was gone!
I quickly removed the spent muskett cap and inserted a new one over the nipple, thinking my hunt was probably ruined. I had tracked this buck for several days and knew he was the largest one in the area. There had been two smaller sets of tracks, but I had seen the spike and figured the other to be just a button head buck.
About 15 minutes later I was looking in front of me to the west and about 60 yards away there appeared a doe, and she started walking slowly around the edge of the woodland towards my stand. At the time I didn't know it was the same doe as was with the 6 point buck that I had tried to shoot. Then the buck appeared and stopped at the edge of an embankment. He was confused on which way to go because 3 doe had traveled up the bank before he came along. I used the grunt call around my neck and got his attention and brought him within 50 yards and this time the gun didn't let me down.
Like I say, the buck wasn't anything to brag about, but the old saying goes like this, "You can't eat the horns"! James and Seth heard the shot and was waiting on the ridge that led into the woods! We all rode the Honda back to the spot the buck lay. I pulled my case knife out of my pocket and gave Seth a lesson on how to field dress the buck. Seth is 7 years old!
THE BUCK STOPS HERE - Bullets, Broadheads, Whitetails and Me!
Telling stories to friends and family about each of the mounted deer that hang on the wall of her trophy room, encouragment from a former vocational teacher and a computer motivated G. M. Barber to write her first book. After 25 years of deer hunting and 25 whitetail bucks, the stories stayed fresh in her mind. The book tells the weight, antler size, seasons and all particulars of the hunt on each. In doing so it was easy to sit down at the computer and write a story on each indidual whitetail buck harvested. (She did her own taxidermy work).
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The Buck Stops Here - Bullets, Broadheads, Whitetails and Me! by G. M. Barber
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