Thanks Bisch!. I think I shot her more out of anger. LoL
I got in my stand around 4:50. By 5:15, the first doe was milling around about 50 yards away up hill from where I'm sitting. And she just ate acorn after acorn and milled around all afternoon. One would come join her and then they'd walk away for bit. Then ten minutes later, they'd come back. They just would not come down the hill. I've only been hunting for four years, two with a trad bow, but this was the most relaxed I've ever seen a group of deer.
Then, with about 10-15 minutes worth of shooting light left, there are four does in front of me and they are finally, slowly making their way down the hill. I'm getting prepped and calming my heart rate down, when all the sudden, the doe closest to me jumps and takes off about 20 yards to my left and starts looking back at where she ran from. It wasn't me, it was something else that had spooked her. Then I see the coyote coming down the hill, nose to the ground.
I'm ticked because I've been staring at these deer all afternoon and now a coyote is gonna run them off! So, when she came down and got 10 yards away from my stand, I pinned her to the ground. She did a 360 around the arrow and then jumped off of it, leaving my arrow still stuck in the ground! So not only did I get my coyote, but I got my arrow and broad head back too. Added bonus! LoL
Shot her with my Shrew Classic Hunter 58# at 28" with grizzly single bevels on gold tip blems.
Topic: First Bow Kill (Read 1566 times)
