Shaun,
Congrats bud ! Them long quartering away shots are death when executed properly. Hard to make yourself shoot one that far back on the near side, but you have to do that if you want it to come out the far end in the right spot. I shot a 6 point years ago behind the last rib in his waist area. Leaves were still on so when he took off I could not see him. I could hear him run about 30 yds, stop, then fall and hear him trashing leaves for 10 seconds and it was all over. I got down walked over to where I shot him and found my broadhead and 6" of arrow laying right there. When I got to the buck the arrow had come out perfectly right between his right shoulder and neck. When his right leg swept forward to run he broke that 6" of arrow and broadhead off right at the shot. When I gutted him you could see the other 22" of arrow perfectly angled thru the boiler room. I learned a valuable lesson that day on shot angles.
Here is another lesson I learned the hard way.... Do not take quartering TOO YOU shots. I lost two deer over that last several years due to my stupidity and impatience, both on opening day. Just could not wait for the deer to present a better shot and had the opening day jitters. On the quatering too you shot if you shoot the least bit too far back it just goes from bad to worse as the arrow is heading away from the boiler room.
Shaun, that is one nice bow and a great story about recurving it when others said it could not be done. Sure hope Mason can get one with his osage he made at Pappy's summer before last. Still laugh from time to time about them, " Iowa Striped Whistlers ". That was a great campfire story at Compton this past summer. Now go get us a " Horn Monster " bud !
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