5:15 am saturday morning, up and at em. I did all the scent washing and got in the stand at 6 am. I sat for a while and nothing but the wind was perfectly in my face. About 7:45 I catch movement to my south. Its a basket 6 pointer dogging a nubbin buck. He chases him for a while and they eat at the feeder. All of a sudden they stop and the 6 looks up across the creek to the north and a little 7 point comes across. The 7 works a mock scrape that I made 2 weeks ago (FIRST time seeing a deer work a scrape) and then the 6 walks up to him. I can barely see them through the oak leaves but I can see hair standing up. All of a sudden they lock up and start pushing each other around. This is the FIRST time I have ever seen this in real life, it may have been little deer but it was exciting just the same. By now my heart is really pumping while watching these deer 27 feet below me and they have no clue I am there. While they are locked up again I hear some water splash and see another deer coming across the creek. It is a spike that I have been watching for several weeks on camera that had some injury to his front right leg that made a big knot around the knee joint. He skirts the fighters and comes right in for some acorn rage. I wait for him to turn but he is really jumpy because of the deer fighting. He finally turns to the right a little more and I tuck my 20 yd pin right behind the shoulder and release. He made a big circle and flipped over 40 yds from the treestand. This was the FIRST buck I have taken with my bow.
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Now saturday evening I sit in a differnt spot in a tripod hoping to catch something early because I have to get my little girl by 7 from the inlaws house. The wind is just going crazy and I am sure there will be no deer moving in this weather. I leave the tripod at 6 and start walking to the 4 wheeler. I come around the corner and see mmovement at my FIL's feeder. I quickly jump down inside the lakebank right on the waters edge and make my way toward them. Once I get near I take a peek up and they are walking away toward the fenceline. I think I can hurry over the bank and get around the brushline before the hit the fence and get a shot off. I hurry over the bank while staying low and see them heading back. I get right in line with our big protein feeder and walk straight toward them. When I peek around they are all back eating. There is only one spot I can see through the brushline. After about 10 minutes a doe moves into the clearing and I range her. 38 yds. I pull back and put the pin on her and squeeze it off. It took a second for that arrow to get there but it did get there. Hit her right at the bottom of the spine and she dropped in her tracks. She was moving all around so I ran up 10 yds and put another in her heart to extinguish her quickly. That was the FIRST time I have ever stalked up on a whitetail without being busted and made a 40 yd shot.
This is whats left of a GT 5575 with a thunderhead(FIRST arrow ever broken on an animal)
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Second arrow Beman MFX with the slick trick finished the job
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No tracking job needed
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After a saturday like that I had to put the bow up and go to church this morning.
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[/IMG]Now saturday evening I sit in a differnt spot in a tripod hoping to catch something early because I have to get my little girl by 7 from the inlaws house. The wind is just going crazy and I am sure there will be no deer moving in this weather. I leave the tripod at 6 and start walking to the 4 wheeler. I come around the corner and see mmovement at my FIL's feeder. I quickly jump down inside the lakebank right on the waters edge and make my way toward them. Once I get near I take a peek up and they are walking away toward the fenceline. I think I can hurry over the bank and get around the brushline before the hit the fence and get a shot off. I hurry over the bank while staying low and see them heading back. I get right in line with our big protein feeder and walk straight toward them. When I peek around they are all back eating. There is only one spot I can see through the brushline. After about 10 minutes a doe moves into the clearing and I range her. 38 yds. I pull back and put the pin on her and squeeze it off. It took a second for that arrow to get there but it did get there. Hit her right at the bottom of the spine and she dropped in her tracks. She was moving all around so I ran up 10 yds and put another in her heart to extinguish her quickly. That was the FIRST time I have ever stalked up on a whitetail without being busted and made a 40 yd shot.
This is whats left of a GT 5575 with a thunderhead(FIRST arrow ever broken on an animal)
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[/IMG]Second arrow Beman MFX with the slick trick finished the job
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[/IMG]After a saturday like that I had to put the bow up and go to church this morning.
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