Nice buck, especially with a bow. How far away? Details?
Thanks! I had been watching this buck in the neighbor's bean field, but knew that they crossed the road to bed down on our side of the road every morning. I set up a tent blind a couple weeks before the season in a timber patch with lots of trails, thought sure the big guy would walk in the thick stuff. Right at daylight I saw that I was surrounded by does and fawns, snuck a peek a little further up the trail and saw him walking out of a shooting lane into the thick stuff. Instead of staying in the woods, he walked out to the unplanted field and walked down the fencerow. That afternoon I cleaned out an old stand along the fence row and slipped into it the next morning. Like clockwork, here he and the "entourage" come (close to 15 deer, that's a lot of eyes!) Instead of walking straight in front of the stand, he cut across the fence early, but at only 10 yards away. I drew, waited for the opening, and shot, realizing then that he was quartering to, not away, like I thought he would go. Arrow deflected slightly off the last rib, caught a piece of the liver, out the belly, and back in and out of the rear leg. He ran about 45 yards away and stopped facing directly away, so I grabbed another arrow (this time with a Lumenock), aimed for vitals, and launched again. Normally I wouldn't take this kind of shot, but he was already wounded. The arrow hit his the top of his rump, and the broadhead buried itself in his lower chest wall, slicing up just about every main artery he had. He piled up dead about 15 yards from the second shot.
185 lbs, scores about 130, 7:30 in the morning, Mathews DXT bow, Montec G5 broadheads.
