Kanati + Zwickey = 8 point!

[30coupe]

I thought the morning was going to be a bust. I set my alarm on my cell phone for 5:30...p.m.      When I woke up and looked at it this morning it said 5:59...damn! I scrambled around, making coffee and getting dressed, ate a piece of toast and headed for the woods. It was starting to get light when I got there, crap! I headed for the closest stand...the one Dave killed his buck from last weekend. My cousin's son-in-law had hunted out of it yesterday morning and hadn't seen a thing, so I wasn't optimistic...especially with my late start.

I climbed into the stand, buckled my HSS, nocked an arrow, hung up my bow, fished my grunt tube out of my pack, and sat down to wait. Within a minute, I saw a buck moving west along the creek about 75 yards away. I hadn't even had time to put on my face mask...ugly was going to have to do. I can called and he turned and started heading right for me. There is a scrape about 12 yards from the stand and he stopped and turned broadside in that. Unfortunately, there was a limb in the way, so I had no shot. I thought if I could just step forward on the stand a bit, I could shoot over the limb. I stepped and the stand squeaked! Up came his head. I tried to hide behind my bow, but it's skinny and I'm not. Exit deer stage left.   :(

I watched him run about 50 yards, then slow down. I hit the can call and he stopped and looked back. I thought, what the heck, so I hit it again. Here he comes! He got to about 22 yards and turned broadside again. There were some small branches about 8 yards in front of him, but I could see a window through them. I came to full draw and thought to myself, I've got this shot. From the corner of my eye, I saw his head turn away from me. Then I saw an arrow on its way...dang, I don't recall releasing it.

I saw him duck then run west. I looked back at where he had been standing and could just make out my fletching (it's kinda dim here at 7:05). The color just didn't look right. I climbed down, walked over to the arrow and this is what I found:



                                   

[Wannabe1]

     Congrats!

[rastaman]

Very nice!

[Morning Star]

Good for you!  

[Horner]

Congrats!!!  

[PaPaFrank]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!     thanks for sharing it with us

[billy shipp]

Congrats....good story and a nice buck.

[Bonebuster]

You can`t get them if you don`t go out.  Running late and all, you didn`t give up...you made the best of the time you had.

That is a beautiful buck.

Thanks for sharing the story. Great pics.  

[Jmatt1957]

Great story,,Congrats nice buck

[amicus]

Very nice. Congrats.

G

[LAR43]

He's a dandy! Very nice!!

Larry

[JoeM]

Pretty deer Congrats!!  Joe

[Irish Archer]

Nice buck. Job well done.

[joe skipp]

   

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Awesome deer! Well-done!

[Altiman94]

Awsome deer.  I am home here in ne iowa also and agree that we don't have as many big bucks as southern iowa, but that's still a real good buck.

[pitbull]

Congrats, on a nice buck.  

[Hoser1268]

Very nice deer. Congrats!!!      

[BUCK-EYE]

Sometimes Ugly is a good thing!    Nice Deer!

[turkey522]

Nice deer.