Thanks all for the well wishes.
Bobby, we telecheck our deer here in Missouri now, so there's no need to take 'em off the farm. I didn't open the body cavity at all on this one. Just slit the hide and peeled it back, took the four quarters off, cut out the tenderloins (took two gallon ziplocs for those) and trimmed out a bunch of neck meat for jerky.
I'm no craftsman of the written word. The shot was about 15 yards, total time between realizing there was a deer on it's way in and the shot was maybe seven or eight seconds. The shot was a bit far back, but took out both lungs. The arrow dropped out on the far side. Tracking job was surprisingly long, about 200 yards straight downhill and into the thick stuff. We used a Gator and a rope to get him out of the brushpile he died in.
The bow is a 57#@29" Thunderstick MOAB that Jim finished up for me in August. Arrows are CX250's weighing about 550 grains. I used Zephyr broadheads. Gotta say, those things sharpen up to a scalpels edge. I get jumpy pulling one out of the quiver.
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