Thanks for your comments guys. Matty, the bow is a Sheepeater Spirit. 48" Static Recurve made by Brent Rudolph. It pulls 52# which is good enough. It shoots straight and hard and is a pure joy to carry. It's the only bow to come down the pike that I'd put my own bows down for an entire season. I told Brent and Mark that I was declaring this the year of the Sheepeater. I've killed 5 tom turkeys, a whitetail doe and this buck with it. It's performance is unbelievable and under no circumstances would I part with it. Brent, Miss Di only cooks em, no gutting, no draggin, no skinning. She will help me get him into small packages.
The whole story is I was hunting over a waterhole that lots of does visit. I saw him coming at 100 yds. He came in and was 15 yards away, broadside, when a doe came out of the woods north of him. He turned his head to look at her and Overdrive kicked in. Arrow buried to the fletch tight behind the shoulder. He wheeled end for end and snapped the nock end off on a tree. Before he hit the woods 20 yards away the business end of the arrow fell out and I could see blood pumping out. I lowered my stuff out of the stand picked up the two pieces of shaft and followed the red brick road to the buck. Snapped a couple of pic and went to work. Only had to drag him about 30 yds. He wasn't one of the four bruisers I was really hunting, but..he was there. I call bucks this size "4th and Short Bucks". As a FB coach for 32 years I know that you'll never know what you'll do in that situation untill you're facing it. Maybe you'll punt, and maybe you'll go for it. This time I went for it. Ralph
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