I was in the new treestand for only 15 minutes when other doe came into the field from the NW, and it wasn't too much longer until Stickers entered as well. A couple.smaller buck had entered from the East, and chased them away, and started to feed near where he fed then other day, but daylight was fading.
Fortunately for me, a doe came into the field around 70 yards to my west, and he put his head down and started half-heartedly chasing her, stopping nearly broadside 15 yards from me.
I took the shot, and he whirled back to the Northwest through the field, but I lost sight of him due to the fading light and the Contour of the field, and I could not be certain of where I hit him in the low light.
I texted a couple of friends and told them what had happened and I thought I may have shot a little low by the way the buck reacted. I waited around a half an hour and turned on my green light to come out of the stand, and deer were snorting all over the field and I could hear them running. I hoped that one of them was not stickers, because that would almost certainly mean that I had wasted my last opportunity for this buck.
I got down out of the stand and was unable initially to find my arrow or any blood, so I slowly made my way in the direction that he ran shining my light ahead into the field. I had switch to a strong flashlight, and I I was very relieved and happy to see a white belly around 70 yards in a slight depression in the field.
This is as he was when I found him, and I eventually found the arrow. That is the exit wound, and he either turned a little at the shot, or wasn't completely broadside.
Topic: Stickers comes home. 4 seasons in the making. (Read 2186 times)
