Vince
Well-Known Member
Very excited to get my second crossbow deer. B'day deer. Thank you Lord.
It wasn't much action in the woods today. I was on the stand at 1.39pm and overdressed for the weather, with 3 layers of pants and foot warmer in between two layers of socks (sometimes the wind chills me quickly so didnt want to be underprepared; even then, overdressed was better than underdressed). My foot was burning after the climb to the tree top.
Never seen this many squirrels ever. They were all over the place distracting me. Trust me, they do sound like deer walking. At 4 o clock, I see a doe and fawn in distance walking towards me. I thought of waiting until legal time to see if they will come in range. Few minutes later, this lone doe walks out from the woods to behind me 20 yards. I shoot my new Lumenok fitted Firebolt and I see it lit and stuck on the ground. The doe makes a run, it's tail is down but otherwise no signs of any injury seemingly. I wasn't sure if I hit the deer. (I am trying new bolts and broadhead and had missed a shot last week). I stand up to chocolate chip cookie the crossbow again and the mama deer is in front of me, starts blowing. Suddenly, I hear deer blowing from all around me. I didn't even know they were there except the mama deer; so stealthy even with all the dry leaves on the ground. I gave up trying to chocolate chip cookie again on the treestand as the sun would soon go down. Got down the tree, checked the arrow, there is blood - a complete pass through. It's tracking time. I had a new, brighter flashlight. Cocked the bow, left the lit lumenok and backpack and got into the woods, cutting into the path that doe ran. I immediately see blood on leaves. There are big pools of blood I am following and some 40 yards later, find the doe. I checked in and start the drag back. The lit lumenok helped me to get back direction-wise. Field dressed it and got it home. Will butcher early tomorrow - packed cavity with icebags and left few icebags on the top as well.
In between my hunt, I got stung by a bee. The bee was walking around on my crossbow platform, and it crawled on to my fingers. I moved my fingers thinking it will fly away. I was wrong. It got squished and came the sting. It felt very painful but then I bit the stung area even harder overriding the pain of the sting. It was fine after few mins. (I have done this when I got stung by wasps before).
The doe I shot ran into the thickets from where I saw bucks travelling last week. By tracking the doe that ran into there, did I ruin this spot? I did hear deer blowing from here when mama deer blew. I went back to this spot today after a week. I did have plans to go tomorrow morning too if I hadn't gotten one, but now I think I will go Sunday morning. Or, should I wait? My next planned hunt trip was Wednesday afternoon.
It wasn't much action in the woods today. I was on the stand at 1.39pm and overdressed for the weather, with 3 layers of pants and foot warmer in between two layers of socks (sometimes the wind chills me quickly so didnt want to be underprepared; even then, overdressed was better than underdressed). My foot was burning after the climb to the tree top.
Never seen this many squirrels ever. They were all over the place distracting me. Trust me, they do sound like deer walking. At 4 o clock, I see a doe and fawn in distance walking towards me. I thought of waiting until legal time to see if they will come in range. Few minutes later, this lone doe walks out from the woods to behind me 20 yards. I shoot my new Lumenok fitted Firebolt and I see it lit and stuck on the ground. The doe makes a run, it's tail is down but otherwise no signs of any injury seemingly. I wasn't sure if I hit the deer. (I am trying new bolts and broadhead and had missed a shot last week). I stand up to chocolate chip cookie the crossbow again and the mama deer is in front of me, starts blowing. Suddenly, I hear deer blowing from all around me. I didn't even know they were there except the mama deer; so stealthy even with all the dry leaves on the ground. I gave up trying to chocolate chip cookie again on the treestand as the sun would soon go down. Got down the tree, checked the arrow, there is blood - a complete pass through. It's tracking time. I had a new, brighter flashlight. Cocked the bow, left the lit lumenok and backpack and got into the woods, cutting into the path that doe ran. I immediately see blood on leaves. There are big pools of blood I am following and some 40 yards later, find the doe. I checked in and start the drag back. The lit lumenok helped me to get back direction-wise. Field dressed it and got it home. Will butcher early tomorrow - packed cavity with icebags and left few icebags on the top as well.
In between my hunt, I got stung by a bee. The bee was walking around on my crossbow platform, and it crawled on to my fingers. I moved my fingers thinking it will fly away. I was wrong. It got squished and came the sting. It felt very painful but then I bit the stung area even harder overriding the pain of the sting. It was fine after few mins. (I have done this when I got stung by wasps before).
The doe I shot ran into the thickets from where I saw bucks travelling last week. By tracking the doe that ran into there, did I ruin this spot? I did hear deer blowing from here when mama deer blew. I went back to this spot today after a week. I did have plans to go tomorrow morning too if I hadn't gotten one, but now I think I will go Sunday morning. Or, should I wait? My next planned hunt trip was Wednesday afternoon.
