This past Friday evening I was able to take my best recurve buck. I was hunting on my farm in Southern OKLAHOMA and was in a ground blind along an oat patch. It was a really great night to be outside and I was enjoying watching a big group of turkeys feed in the oats. I sat in the same spot on Thursday evening and saw a small buck chase two does around the field. That kind of chasing activity is very early for this area.
Unlike the previous evening, there was not much deer activity until later in the evening when 4 does stepped out into the field. As they fed, several other does appeared followed by a couple small bucks. Like the previous evening, the bucks started chasing the does and before long, it looked like there were deer running everywhere. Then, HE stepped out and I knew immediately that I would shoot him if given the chance. He was about 100 yards away when I first saw him and I was hoping he would head in my direction. I got very lucky in that he came my direction and passed by me at about 22 yards. That is further than I like to shoot at game, but to be honest, this was a bigger target than I normally shoot at
At the shot, I was very confident about the hit. He turned and ran hard and fast and very low to the ground. I watched where he went and then slipped out of the blind and went back to the house to give him some time.
I waited about 2 hours and then took a lantern and went to look for blood and my arrow. I looked for 1.5 hours in the oat field and found neither and started to get very worried that I didn’t him him as good as I thought. I wanted to get a look at the arrow to get an idea about the hit before I started in the direction he ran. There is an ATV trail in the direction that he ran and I decided to walk down that trail to see if I could pick up the trail there. That was a good idea and I found him laying just inside the tree line in the trail. He only made it 100 yards total. I had double lunged him. I was using my 54# Rick Welch Dakota and gold tip arrows with a 145 grain, 1.5 inch schmeisser broadhead. Total arrow weight is 430 grains.
Topic: Best Recurve Buck (Read 11302 times)
