fisher16
11-14-2006, 08:59 AM
Talk about being to easy.Beerchug I thought I was dreaming when I heard the snorting, stopping sounds of hoofs in my bedroom.Laughing1
Illinois hunter blasts buck in his bedroom
Is there any doubt the whitetail rut is in full swing across much of the country?
After last week's story about a buck that went on a 20-minute foray through an Iowa super store comes an even wilder tale of a buck that shattered the window of an Illinois homeowner and was shot after trashing a newly remodeled bedroom.
My good pal Jeff Lampe, the fine outdoor writer for the Peoria Journal-Star, reports that Farmington, Ill., hunter Steve Balagna felt compelled to shoot a 7-point buck after the deer crashed through his 57-by-78-inch picture window (http://www.pjstar.com/stories/111006/JEF_BBFM0TEA.068.shtml).
Balagna was quietly having coffee with his wife, son and a friend Nov. 1 when he says the window in his house exploded.
"He had jumped into the window and kept coming when the glass broke," Balagna said. "Then he got his antlers stuck in the Venetian blinds and we all got out of there."
The deer headed for a bedroom that Balagna had recently remodeled, leaving a trail of blood on the hardwood floors. He and son tried unsuccessfully to herd the deer through a hallway and into the garage.
That's when the deer went ballistic.
"He charged the bed and he charged the closet doors and he was cut up from the window, so he was bleeding all over," Balagna said.
Even though nearly two weeks remained before the opening of Illinois' first firearms hunting season, enough was enough. The veteran outdoorsman grabbed a .22 rifle and subdued the buck with four shots to the head.
"I called our (conservation officer) after that and told him I just blasted a deer in my bedroom," Balagna said.
Photographs of the damage caused by the rampaging buck (http://www.pjstar.com/php/index.php?/lampe/balagnas_bedroom_buck/) are posted on Lampe's blog, Scattershooting.
Illinois hunter blasts buck in his bedroom
Is there any doubt the whitetail rut is in full swing across much of the country?
After last week's story about a buck that went on a 20-minute foray through an Iowa super store comes an even wilder tale of a buck that shattered the window of an Illinois homeowner and was shot after trashing a newly remodeled bedroom.
My good pal Jeff Lampe, the fine outdoor writer for the Peoria Journal-Star, reports that Farmington, Ill., hunter Steve Balagna felt compelled to shoot a 7-point buck after the deer crashed through his 57-by-78-inch picture window (http://www.pjstar.com/stories/111006/JEF_BBFM0TEA.068.shtml).
Balagna was quietly having coffee with his wife, son and a friend Nov. 1 when he says the window in his house exploded.
"He had jumped into the window and kept coming when the glass broke," Balagna said. "Then he got his antlers stuck in the Venetian blinds and we all got out of there."
The deer headed for a bedroom that Balagna had recently remodeled, leaving a trail of blood on the hardwood floors. He and son tried unsuccessfully to herd the deer through a hallway and into the garage.
That's when the deer went ballistic.
"He charged the bed and he charged the closet doors and he was cut up from the window, so he was bleeding all over," Balagna said.
Even though nearly two weeks remained before the opening of Illinois' first firearms hunting season, enough was enough. The veteran outdoorsman grabbed a .22 rifle and subdued the buck with four shots to the head.
"I called our (conservation officer) after that and told him I just blasted a deer in my bedroom," Balagna said.
Photographs of the damage caused by the rampaging buck (http://www.pjstar.com/php/index.php?/lampe/balagnas_bedroom_buck/) are posted on Lampe's blog, Scattershooting.