I’ve been rifle hunting for about 25 years and got in to bow hunting last year. I had a shot at a nice one last year and shot just under him at about 50 yards. I was sick for a while over that one, still am a little since it was just a stupid ranging error.


I’ve done some sitting this year in the same spot and have been seeing nice ones off in the distance but nothing close enough. About 20 min prior to sundown yesterday i see this guy off in the distance and same thing, just wanders off with no response to calling. About 20-30 minutes later i hear rustling in the woods behind me. Eventually he got close enough where i could see it was a buck. He came through to the edge of the woods and the swampy area i’m hunting over at a perfect 20-25 yards and stopped before i had a clear shot and turned around. I was thinking shit, he’s gonna go back and I dont have a shot in the woods. He turned and came down the tree line passing right under me. I drew back and shot, was probably 8 yards max. I was a little nervous where it would hit since My 1st pin is 20 yd and straight down is the one shot I never practiced. He took off like a rocket but I knew he was hit good because I could see the blood coming out his side almost instantly. I found him maybe 50 yards from me, he circled out into the swamp and back in to the woods about 40 yards down and didnt make it far from there. It hit just behind the shoulder a little high but caught a lung and he bled like crazy, massive clotting in the chest cavity.

That's awesome. Congrats.

Nice job and nice deer!

If you are a bow hunter little mishaps happen.   Before shooting my first archery deer I pulled up on a doe while going to my tree stand.   Easy thirty yard shot with my old Bear Whitetail 2 and slow heavy 2117 arrows.  Got excited and used my bottom pin instead of my top pin sailing the arrow safely over her back and my satellite titan broadhead got bent in a fish hook striking rock rubble.   Then there is the invisible twig midway along your arrows path which your arrow strikes divirting the deadly blow to the dirt near your deer.

The bonus is when it all comes together with those lessons learned and your deer earned.  

Well done!

Congrats!

Nice deer congrats. By the way 50 yards is just to far. One step after you release the arrow results in a gunshot deer. Welcome to bow hunting !

Very nice!

so your telling me you killed that deer with a sharp stick?! way to go!!! archery really extends your season. nice one...

Nice

Congrats

Nice buck

50 yards is not too far at all. I have killed them at 80.  

People who think you can’t shoot a bow over 30 yards need to go west of the Mississippi.

The expandables I’m using did a real number. Sliced a rib clean through on the way in.



The arrow broke in half when he ran off. There was a small field tip size hole on the opposite side so i figured maybe the blades broke off and just the tip came out. I found the fletching side but not the tip. I ended up finding it in his armpit area between the skin and ribs.

Butchering the front shoulder i just noticed it blew through the top rear of the shoulder blade too

be careful if the carbon arrow broke dont use any of the meat in that area ..... carbon shards dont good thing to your guts