I’ve been watching this buck on camera since late summer and watched him grow. He was without a doubt my number one target going into the season. As the season approached he went very nocturnal as expected. At best I’d get him on camera for a minute or two at daybreak. Then finally comes opening morning and I went in for my first hunt. I had a ton of deer traffic at daybreak, does, fawns, and some young bucks, but not this guy. 745 rolls around and all of the deer traffic had cleared out and I’d pretty much written off the morning as a no show. Low and behold I see movement to my left and he jumps into my feed pin with two other small bucks....I was at full draw before all four of his hooves hit the ground at 27 yds, exactly as I had played the scenario over in my head for months. At this point I started to tell myself to slow down, and I took one more breath as he settled broadside and put the pin on his heart slowly pulling back and let it fly. He jumped the string hard and I saw the nocktournal, with 2.1” Sevr hit high. The arrow penetrated both sides but did not pas through. He busted out of the feed pin and hauled *** across the field edge I was hunting as I watched my red/green flashing nock for 250 yds as he hit the opposite tree line and disappeared, and I was stunned with disbelief. Then I played everything over and over again in my head, and waited. I waited and hour went back to camp to try to collect myself and went back in with my wife, uncle and cousin to look for blood. There was no blood at point of impact so went straight to the treeline 250 yds away to look. My wife found one drop of blood size of an eraser. We then found the same amount drops size of pinpoints about every 10-20 yds basically crawling and continued for another 100 yd until we lost it. We called it at this point after 4 hrs. We went back that night to see if there was any sign of the arrows lighted nock but nothing.
Fast forward and here he is back on camera almost a month later on Oct 24th!
Then last weekend I pull another camera card and got a good pic of the impact and scar from the shot, and after seeing this I didn’t hit him as high as I thought I did and in shot him on the right side same as the angle in this pic.
I’m shocked.
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Fast forward and here he is back on camera almost a month later on Oct 24th!
Then last weekend I pull another camera card and got a good pic of the impact and scar from the shot, and after seeing this I didn’t hit him as high as I thought I did and in shot him on the right side same as the angle in this pic.
I’m shocked.
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they are tough animals for sure here is one my buddy shot with a grim reaper this is two weeks later... still have no idea how she’s walking
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