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Title: It took four years
Post by: BillJ on October 25, 2007, 10:05:00 PM

But I finally got one tonight with just a stick and string.  And it happened despite doing everything wrong.

I ran home from work, threw my camo overalls on, and ran to the woods.  No scent control, no time to wash off the normal work-a-day cologne - just grab the stand, run to the woods, get in a tree fast and sit there sweating.  The wind was perfect, however, and I grabbed my doe bleat can and went at it.  Within 15 minutes and after about 20 bleats, a seven pointer came as if on a string and gave me that perfect broadside shot.  

He's no P&Y, but I'll take him.  After all, it only took four years!

BTW - I used my Jerry Hill Wildcat (55lb), a homemade POC arrow, fletched with goose feathers from the gazillion geese that infest my back yard and tipped with a zwickey.

BillJ

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: vermonster13 on October 25, 2007, 10:13:00 PM

Congrats! Feels real good, don't it?

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Ironman on October 25, 2007, 10:15:00 PM

Congratulations Bill on your first trad kill.
I took me a few years for my first.

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Jaz on October 25, 2007, 10:23:00 PM

Awesome, Bill. Is that the bow I sold ya about a year ago?
Jaz

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Whip on October 25, 2007, 10:23:00 PM

Flying high and feeling good tonight aren't ya' Bill?  This one will always stand out in your memories as the best of them all!
Congratulations!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: BillJ on October 25, 2007, 10:24:00 PM

Yes, Jaz, it's the same one you sold me.  Thanks!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Danny Rowan on October 25, 2007, 10:28:00 PM

Ok, great, ya got a deer, now where are the pics?LOL. Good job.

Danny

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: drewsbow on October 26, 2007, 05:43:00 AM

congrats :0)

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: 4runr on October 26, 2007, 05:58:00 AM

Bill, congrats again, don't tell me you think you can get away without pics!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Stone Knife on October 26, 2007, 06:17:00 AM

Nice job   :thumbsup:  I have ran to the woods in the same manner as you did many times just to get a chance to go out   :archer:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: BillJ on October 26, 2007, 06:25:00 AM

Sorry guys, but all I had was my camera phone, and pics weren't too good.  Here's all I have.

Where I found him:
   (http://www.johnsonacres.com/images/Seven_Point1.jpg)

And a shot off the back of the truck, in the dark:

     (http://www.johnsonacres.com/images/Seven_Point.jpg)

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: JDinPA on October 26, 2007, 06:41:00 AM

Great first deer!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: robtattoo on October 26, 2007, 06:43:00 AM

Good job Bill!  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Bonebuster on October 26, 2007, 06:50:00 AM

That is what you call making the most of the day!  I have been there too. I bet your heart was already racing a bit, when you were getting ready. Looking back, maybe you just had a feeling in your gut? Couldn`t get up in the tree fast enough?

Great job. Nice buck too!

I wonder how many hunters could have squeezed in an evening hunt, but didn`t because they didn`t
think they had time? Alot of missed opportunities
I think.

Congratulations.

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: slayer1 on October 26, 2007, 07:13:00 AM

Congats on your fisrt!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Wulomac on October 26, 2007, 07:18:00 AM

Outstanding!  I'm still waitin'!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Mike Walker on October 26, 2007, 07:52:00 AM

Way to go!  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: limbow on October 26, 2007, 07:56:00 AM

Nice job!! Some things are well worth the wait.

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Tim Fishell on October 26, 2007, 08:02:00 AM

Very cool Congrats!!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: CheapShot on October 26, 2007, 08:04:00 AM

Nice Buck, congratulations.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: BMN on October 26, 2007, 10:12:00 AM

Great job. Congrats.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: woodchucker on October 26, 2007, 03:59:00 PM

CONGRATULATIONS My Friend!!!!!!!!!!   :clapper:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: eagle24 on October 26, 2007, 04:00:00 PM

Congratulations!  Well done.

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: yellow bow on October 26, 2007, 06:35:00 PM

nice buck,congrats!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Baffinland Archer on October 26, 2007, 07:35:00 PM

Congratulations and thank you for making me feel better. This is my second year and I have thus far come home empty-handed. Not for lack of trying, believe me.

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: Crooked Stic on October 26, 2007, 07:44:00 PM

Thats a dandy buck right there.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: deertraks on October 26, 2007, 07:47:00 PM

Way to go!  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: GingivitisKahn on October 26, 2007, 08:57:00 PM

Great job.  Sounds to me you did things right enough.  

p.s. Cologne during deer season?!  Heresy!  :-D

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: 4runr on October 26, 2007, 09:27:00 PM

Pics are very good enough! Thanks Brother!

Nice buck!

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: LV2HUNT on October 26, 2007, 09:30:00 PM

Nice job! Congrats   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: John3 on October 26, 2007, 09:33:00 PM

beautiful buck..

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: BillJ on October 27, 2007, 08:50:00 AM

Hey GingivitisKhan, I've hunted many many an hour without cologne and come up empty.  Maybe it was the cologne that attracted him in the first place!  Maybe I'm on to something there!  Maybe I'll start hunting with cologne all the time! ;-)

Thanks to all for the nice comments.  I have a question, though, as I've pondered this hunt a bit.  

When I hit him, I didn't get a pass through, and as he walked away he snagged the arrow on a bush and broke it off.  I retrieved most of it, but the zwickey remained in the deer.  When I field dressed him I never found it though, and was quite worried that I would lose a finger in the process.  How do you guys deal with field dressing a deer when you are pretty sure there's a nasty broadhead lurking somewhere within?

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: GingivitisKahn on October 27, 2007, 02:27:00 PM

Lol - you may be on to something there.  Get someone on VS a sample of your brand and I'll bet you could sell it by the gallon.

By the same token, for the lady hunters out there (that is, hunters who happen to be ladies, not those looking for ladies), I think we need to market scent-free perfume.  This is an idea worth millions!

:-D

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: kennym on October 27, 2007, 02:43:00 PM

Great first!! Congrats!!  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It took four years
Post by: twosheds on October 27, 2007, 02:46:00 PM

Congrats on your first!!!! Beautiful deer.