Was lucky enough to take a small 6pt yesterday morning with my longbow. I believe he came in pushing a doe around (I say believe cause I could see to deer chasing each other through the pines in front of me then he broke off and fed my way and the other turned and left).
It took a while for him to feed in as there was plenty of acorns between him and me to keep him occupied. He fed straight in till he reached 5 yards :( not a fan of shots that close from a stand. When he turned the arrow was on its way.
The shot ended up being back and I was sure I punched liver. The string tracker sang for what seemed like an eternity then just stopped, didn't slow down just stopped. I gave it an hour then got down and checked the arrow. Sure enough looked like a bad shot and the string had been cut off by the broadhead
so I backed out and gave him six hours before going back.
When me and my brother headed back in we took up the track on the string tracker. Now I don't know if you guys have tracked through pine needles before but it's rough! Thankfully the string tracker kept us in the right direction and after a 100 yards I saw his belly infront of us. The string tracker had pulled out of the deer 10 yards from where he lay. The shot was back but ended up severing the artery under the back bone he was dead 30 seconds after the shot and only made it 140 yards. Still glad I waited though.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that string tracker, it was my first hunt with one and I love it. I definitely need to practice that shot more as the bow is so long I know I must have gotten out of form for an angle like that.
Hope I cools down soon and we'll be back at it next weekend. Best of luck to the rest of you
Topic: Good luck NY bowhunters (Read 13574 times)
