TX Buck Running 'The Script'...

[svenska]

Had a nice 7 pt ( Western count) do that to me a few years back when I still used a wheel bow. 25 yard shot and he jumped the string..the arrow was about 3 inches over him.

[Straitshot]

About 20 or so years ago while hunting a patch of public land around one of the lakes here at home I was positioned about 12 feet high in a Mesquite tree and shot at a buck at about 15 yards. The deer threw its legs outward ( front legs out and forward and rear legs out and backward ) and did a belly flop on the ground as my arrow flew over its back and stuck in the dirt on his off side. Dust even blew out from under him as if you had dropped a powder puff on the floor. I have told this story before to other hunters and they looked at me as if I was crazy. I also saw a very nice buck crawling on its belly, with it's head down hugging the ground, down a cotton row in the middle of a cotton field in an attempt to keep from being seen. I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

Louis

[FerretWYO]

Its true It works. They are fast. I aimed several inches under mine and hit him perfect.

Thanks for the added insight Curtis. That may be very helpful.

[wingnut]

Terry,

Yep I remember when you came out and we went after some does and spikes at Bruce's place.  I kept telling you that below the hairline was the place too look and when we both got chances .. well we both looked in the pocket and we both airmailed the deer.

This years doe did it too me but she added a forward move too it.  Arrow was in the pocket up to about 5 ft from the deer.  She dropped, spun and lurched.  Hit her ahead of the hip and exited the back rib on the other side.  Exit hole was 3 inches above the entrance.

Mike

[Terry Green]

Yep...I remember well Mike....that deer was got my wheels trurning...but it too me another year to actually acept and shoot under them.    

Also nice to see some TX guys weight in and add their take.  

[John Scifres]

OK but why do they act so much more skittish.  The videos I have seen of pigs and deer at feeders in TX are more like watching African animals.  I can understand why the Africans act tha way because of the preponderance of predators it but that's not the case in TX, as far as I know.  Makes me thankful for relatively sluggish Midwestern deer.

[ChristopherO]

John, maybe because there are so many more coyotes and bobcats down there.

[Terry Green]

Don't know John...can't answer that.  The place I hunt is also not 'pressured' or 'over hunted' as they only offer one 4 day hunt a month.

[wingnut]

You know I always thought it was do to the feeders.  The feeder goes off twice a day and always scares the crap out of me.  I've seen deer under them when they go off and it startles them too.

But, I hunt a place that doesn't have feeders and hasn't had for years.  We hunt travel routes and acorn patches.  They still duck and spin.

Mike

[Terry Green]

Yep....the 8 point I killed on my Bday in 2006 and the 10 I killed last year were not over a feeder....but they ran the script.

[Littlefeather]

I agree again. It has nothing to do with feeders although it would make sense if it did. They're just freaky wired for speed. They've got alot of predators here(human and animal). I watch their muscles rippling below the skin in preparation for a speedy exit even when they're just feeding along. They're certainly not the same deer as those in the Mid-West or those I've hunted in Alabama. I wish I knew what had them in a constant state of apprehension. CK