Posted: 10/6/2009 8:28:57 PM EDT
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Closed the deal tonight on a nice mature doe. It got dark this evening way before shooting hours were over due to heavy cloud cover, it was almost to dark to shoot her. 12 yards, double lung she ran 65-70 yards and fell dead. Didnt leave hardly any blood trail so I was getting worried. I found 9/10s of my arrow after 30 yards and the other piece after another 15 yards then the blood stopped. I was starting to get a sick feeling in my stomach when I saw he ear sticking up above the grass.
A huge Buck came in to my set up a few minutes before she did. Massive body and a very wide high and heavy right main beam, sporting at least 5 points. The only problem was he did not have a left beam at all, I let him walk. I now kind of regret it he was massive and very old. Oh well hopefully he doesnt have a left due to injury and will keep pumping those genes out. |
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That is an interesting tip. It got dark early due to cloud cover, so they got active early and still withing shooting hours. I'll have to remember that. thanks. yeah that happened to me on monday. sunset was like 643 or something and they were moveing at like 6. had a decent doe come in 10 yards. i dont know what i did exatcly but i pulled it and shot back. let her sit for about an hour started tracking, blood was really dark red so i knew i hit way to far back, there was alot of blood. i dont know how i didnt find her. called it off after about 2.5 hours of tracking and close to 1000 yards of decent amount of blood. rained that night so little chance of finding her the next day. still had the arrow in her when she took off and never even found the arrow. |
