Author Topic: Plan actually worked (Read 3328 times)

kennym · « **on:** November 22, 2022, 07:02:26 PM »

A while before gun season I hung a stand specifically for the rut.
Not really a pinch point but a crossroads of travel.
Hunted it once in gun (with bow)But the northwest wind didn’t work well. No snorts just nervousness in all deer that came in , saw six bucks but not what I wanted close enough.

So a few days later we had a south southwest wind and I thought what the heck , we will try her again. So I sneaked in up the bottom of a ditch and carefully picked my way to the stand, which by the way is only 10’ off the ground on a good sized pin oak. Also when I hung it I cut some leafy branches and tied on to help break my outline.

Now I’ve sat an hour or more and seen a few deer including two little bucks when I hear a grunt.

kennym · « **Reply #1 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:16:51 PM »

It wasn’t a squeaky little buck grunt and I’m standing . Here comes a doe on course to pass me at 30 yards with a good buck following and grunting.

I’m thinking “crap I’m in the wrong spot again!!” Then she turns hard right and they come. And keep coming , she is moving pretty fast and I’ll be shooting to my right, damn those branches I put up are gonna block shooting that way .

She comes on and at ten yards she suddenly looks right at me for a second and takes two hops .

I’m thinkin this just blew up, but the buck stops in the same spot, now twenty feet behind his gal. He is quartering to me a little but at ten I can do this. I’m almost at full draw when he looks up at me and the arrow is gone.

kennym · « **Reply #2 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:23:11 PM »

It’s unbelievable the reflexes whitetails have, he spins to his left and the arrow hits him about 8” back of where I wanted .

I wanted to throw up right then . He blasts thru 50 yards of timber, jumps the ditch and goes thru some trees, I can hear the arrow clatter on the trees.

Dammit , maybe I should have let down but when I get to full draw on a deer that doesn’t seem to be an option. I watch him cross 200 yards of clover at full speed and into the next timber.

I mark the place he crashed thru the trees into the clover field and where he went into the timber.

GCook · « **Reply #3 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:28:19 PM »

katman · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:31:58 PM »

Popcorn at ready.

kennym · « **Reply #5 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:37:32 PM »

Now I just feel sick , I drop my bow flat on the leaves below and just stand there ,this sucks .

I gather my stuff and quietly get down and sneak out and go home, text bro “ think I just gut shot a buck”

We went back in morning, no hair at shot site, no blood, no arrow .

Finally we find a spec of blood in middle of clover field, and after much looking , another at edge of timber.

Three hours later we find a few more. Then nothing at all, still no arrow and no blood to go on .

We start looking toward the heaviest cover, you can see a ways in this timber so we start gridding it. After a quarter mile circle John says hey come here. The buck is laying on the edge of a small weed field , he went til he dropped, about 550 yards . Thank You Lord

As it turned out the arrow never made it thru the bottom , hence no blood on ground, he was full of blood and the liver was hit. I guess him spinning away when the arrow struck robbed enough energy to hinder penetration .

I used a bow I built last spring from hard maple and glass with defects I cut out and camo painted .

64” takedown , 47@28 , Beman Centershots with a 200 grain VPA three blade up front .

kennym · « **Reply #6 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:39:53 PM »

Well, that’s the story and here is the buck ...

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:44:26 PM »

Awesome write up Kenny.
And great deer.
Congrats.

goingoldskool · « **Reply #8 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:47:37 PM »

Nice work Kenny! Way to stick with it.
Congratulations

GCook · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2022, 07:54:11 PM »

He's a nice one Kenny. Glad you found him.

TIM B · « **Reply #10 on:** November 22, 2022, 08:00:49 PM »

It happens, good follow up man
Tim B

fishone · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2022, 08:03:40 PM »

Real nice buck. I am glad you found him.

arrow30 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 22, 2022, 08:32:44 PM »

i hate when it happens like that, believe me. i know.
congrats! on stickin with it and finding him.

thats a good one.

Walt Francis · « **Reply #13 on:** November 22, 2022, 09:25:00 PM »

Congratulations Kenny, way to follow up.

You Done Good….Really Good!

RIVERWOLF · « **Reply #14 on:** November 22, 2022, 09:37:20 PM »

I could feel the pain and anguish ....and releif !
Great looking Buck , and story ken . Truly Happy you made the recovery .

Congratulations with a fine animal ...enjoy the many gifts given my friend , and Thank you for taking us along.

Crooked Stic · « **Reply #15 on:** November 22, 2022, 09:51:57 PM »

Great story. Congrats.
Homemade bows work good to.

Possum Head · « **Reply #16 on:** November 22, 2022, 10:12:14 PM »

Great stuff Kenny congrats!

HARL · « **Reply #17 on:** November 22, 2022, 10:14:40 PM »

MnFn · « **Reply #18 on:** November 22, 2022, 10:18:18 PM »

Congratulations Kenny, way to stick with it to the end.

Bisch · « **Reply #19 on:** November 22, 2022, 10:41:38 PM »

Way to go Kenny!!!!

Congrats!

Bisch


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