catman529
Well-Known Member
Well I'll start off and say I wasn't gonna shoot another doe for most of this month, hoping a good buck may show up behind one of the nanners.
Today I hunted the same stand from dawn till dusk, only saw 1 yearling buck at daybreak, but saw a bunch of does throughout the morning till 12:45pm.
Around sunset, 3 does work their way into my shooting lanes and one of them has me pegged, but doesn't blow. I am filming them as the daylight starts to fade, and I get to thinking that maybe if I can get drawn back on one and have it perfectly on frame on the camera, I will shoot it to make a good video.
Well I got it on frame, had the does looking away, drew back and held pin on the heart of the closest doe, slightly quartered away.
Let the arrow fly and saw it hit just a couple inches back, but still in the cage and looked like a great shot. I grab the camera to film in the direction she ran, and then realized, it was not recording.
Couldn't believe I blew the video, but I had a deer to recover, so I took up the trail.
Had a good blood trail from the start, and I saw something white up ahead. As I approached, I realized it was trash, not a deer belly. The trail continued, heading toward thicker cover but still pretty easy to follow.
Eventually I found the arrow, where it had come loose from the offside elbow. The broadhead was unscrewed, missing. At this point, some stomach content showed up in the blood, so I knew that shot had nicked the front chamber of the stomach right behind the heart (had this happen before).
Fast forward a little, I tracked this deer roughly 500 yards through thicket. The blood varied from a few drops to big puddles Stevie Wonder could follow. It kept going and never dried up. Probably the best blood I've followed this year, but also the longest trail.
As I was tracking, I heard the deer get up and run off at least 3 times. The reason I didn't back out is because the blood would get stronger each time the deer was bumped, and I remembered bowriter's advice about pushing a deer shot in the vitals. I wanted this deer to bleed out and was gonna follow as long as the blood kept going.
So finally the deer headed to the creek. I followed blood right down the bank, and there she was, sitting in the water, still alive...
I turned around and went all the way back to gather all my stuff and then head back to finish her off.
I'll leave out the details on this, but basically this deer still had a lot of energy when I dispatched her. She died in the creek and I decided to go home and get the kayak rather than wade in cold water and drag the deer a long ways.
I paddled up and dragged the deer to a sand bar and quartered it, something I usually don't do, but did not want to fool with hauling a whole deer downstream. Two hams, backstraps, tenderloins, and the one shoulder that didn't have stomach tainted blood. All fit nicely in the kayak and made an easy trip out. The full moon was very nice too. Something peaceful about floating downstream by the moon.
The lower hole is the exit wound, entrance was a few inches back on the offside. I forgot to cut into the cage and see how much of the heart was hit...but I'm pretty sure I did hit the back end of the heart on this one, what you say?
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Today I hunted the same stand from dawn till dusk, only saw 1 yearling buck at daybreak, but saw a bunch of does throughout the morning till 12:45pm.
Around sunset, 3 does work their way into my shooting lanes and one of them has me pegged, but doesn't blow. I am filming them as the daylight starts to fade, and I get to thinking that maybe if I can get drawn back on one and have it perfectly on frame on the camera, I will shoot it to make a good video.
Well I got it on frame, had the does looking away, drew back and held pin on the heart of the closest doe, slightly quartered away.
Let the arrow fly and saw it hit just a couple inches back, but still in the cage and looked like a great shot. I grab the camera to film in the direction she ran, and then realized, it was not recording.
Couldn't believe I blew the video, but I had a deer to recover, so I took up the trail.
Had a good blood trail from the start, and I saw something white up ahead. As I approached, I realized it was trash, not a deer belly. The trail continued, heading toward thicker cover but still pretty easy to follow.
Eventually I found the arrow, where it had come loose from the offside elbow. The broadhead was unscrewed, missing. At this point, some stomach content showed up in the blood, so I knew that shot had nicked the front chamber of the stomach right behind the heart (had this happen before).
Fast forward a little, I tracked this deer roughly 500 yards through thicket. The blood varied from a few drops to big puddles Stevie Wonder could follow. It kept going and never dried up. Probably the best blood I've followed this year, but also the longest trail.
As I was tracking, I heard the deer get up and run off at least 3 times. The reason I didn't back out is because the blood would get stronger each time the deer was bumped, and I remembered bowriter's advice about pushing a deer shot in the vitals. I wanted this deer to bleed out and was gonna follow as long as the blood kept going.
So finally the deer headed to the creek. I followed blood right down the bank, and there she was, sitting in the water, still alive...
I turned around and went all the way back to gather all my stuff and then head back to finish her off.
I'll leave out the details on this, but basically this deer still had a lot of energy when I dispatched her. She died in the creek and I decided to go home and get the kayak rather than wade in cold water and drag the deer a long ways.
I paddled up and dragged the deer to a sand bar and quartered it, something I usually don't do, but did not want to fool with hauling a whole deer downstream. Two hams, backstraps, tenderloins, and the one shoulder that didn't have stomach tainted blood. All fit nicely in the kayak and made an easy trip out. The full moon was very nice too. Something peaceful about floating downstream by the moon.
The lower hole is the exit wound, entrance was a few inches back on the offside. I forgot to cut into the cage and see how much of the heart was hit...but I'm pretty sure I did hit the back end of the heart on this one, what you say?
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