Opening day(Sat)I had seven bucks, 1 doe and one skip within 30-60yds of me on sat. all small bucks too. They kept heading into this small grove of oaks along a wood road. I was able to glass the trees and realize that most were white oaks. 8pm at night I went back with my lone wolf and climbing sticks and set up in there. I went back at 6am sunday and it was pouring rain. I figured I's just stick it out until I got a shot, i knew they'd come. I usually don't shoot young bucks, but at 9 a 3 point and spike started coming in from different directions and I decided I really wanted to take ANY deer i could with my longbow, i wanted the 3pt a bit more, only because he was a bigger bodied deer, but decided to shoot whoever came in first. He presented me with a slight quartering away shot at 18yds before the spike came in. The shot looked great and he took off. I lost sight of him at the edge of some thickets a little over 100yds away. I waited 30 minutes and got down. there was a TON of blood at the shot, so I went home to get help dragging. By the time we got back it was 11am and the bloodtrail was HUGE still after 2 hours of steady light rain. i was following the trail to where I lost sight of him and he jumped up 12 feet in front of me in the brush. I made a quick shot at the only target I had, his rump. Not ideal but I wanted another arrow in him. we couldn't believe he was still alive 2 hours later with the amount of blood we were seeing. we hung out a few minutes and I decided to look over the hill and see if he was down. i could see him already bedded only 100yds away from where we jumped him and I put the second arrow in him. we backed out to give him time. we came back at 2:30 and found him dead 50yds from where last saw him. My first shot only got the liver and one lung, the second broke through where the pelvis meets the spine and the tip of the snuffer was poking into the guts. it didn't do a whole lot of lethal damage though.
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Topic: Bionic Buck (Read 819 times)
