Hunting whitetails out of a tree stand on my own property shooting hours ended and I lowered my empty Savage 99 to the ground and my pack. When I started to climb down there was a ruckus and low moaning sound coming from a patch of brush about 50 yards out.
I missed the last two steps of the tree stand, hit the ground, turned around to see a very large Brahma bull mix coming fast. Grabbed the 99 and loaded two cartridges in the magazine and stepped behind the tree just as the bull missed me and hit the tree stand. While he was butting the heck out of the stand I jacked a round into the chamber and stepped from behind the tree and put a 87 grain Hornady in his right ear.
The bull was owned by a bucking bull operation two farms down the valley from me.
