Last week was an incredible week to be in the woods up here. We have some absolute monsters on camera but none have been cooperating and a few had disappeared all together.
This buck was locked down with a doe and even bred her once before shooting light out in the field. The doe he was with brought him strait to me, I drew when he jumped the fence and should have stopped him but shot from 12 yards and 25' up with him on a slow walk. I hit him about 8-10" back and was disgusted with myself for not stopping him.
He ran about 40 yards and stayed with his doe until she was run off by two other bucks. All the while he just stood there, he slowly walked off and I lost sight of him after about 100 yards. Those 100 yards took him about 15 mins to walk. I knew he wasn't feeling good and backed out, with the cold temps I decided to wait until the next morning and bring a dog. Turns out I didn't need the dog because he went about 50 yards further than I last saw him. I nicked the bottom of the liver luckily.
I was trying to hold out this year for one of our monsters but just can't let a 7 year old 150 pass me. Oh well, maybe next year! I can't get these two pictures to flip.
This buck was locked down with a doe and even bred her once before shooting light out in the field. The doe he was with brought him strait to me, I drew when he jumped the fence and should have stopped him but shot from 12 yards and 25' up with him on a slow walk. I hit him about 8-10" back and was disgusted with myself for not stopping him.
He ran about 40 yards and stayed with his doe until she was run off by two other bucks. All the while he just stood there, he slowly walked off and I lost sight of him after about 100 yards. Those 100 yards took him about 15 mins to walk. I knew he wasn't feeling good and backed out, with the cold temps I decided to wait until the next morning and bring a dog. Turns out I didn't need the dog because he went about 50 yards further than I last saw him. I nicked the bottom of the liver luckily.
I was trying to hold out this year for one of our monsters but just can't let a 7 year old 150 pass me. Oh well, maybe next year! I can't get these two pictures to flip.
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