Sweet!
Yesterday at 5:15pm, I grunted in and shot about the same class buck, minus brow tines.
I was on the ground hunting with natural cover around me, ASAT wool, about 20" down in a pit with live small pines and small oaks behind me and cut ones all around me.
My 62" 50lb ash Whisperstik Mojostik in hand.
It was a very cool scene. I was grunting blind every 15 minutes and I hit the grunt in a 5 grunt series and 30 seconds later the buck came over the ridge in a fast trot right at me, like on a string, never stopping once. He got 8 yards from me, facing me, then stopped for maybe 2 seconds, gave darting looks, never seeing me, then he back-trotted to the main trail I was watching, stopped broadside for a second and looked the other way, now at 14 yards.
To be honest, the whole thing happened so fast, literally no more than 15 seconds (more like 10 seconds) from the time I first saw him to the shot, that the shot was a blur. I drew, picked a spot and shot. I didn't even see the arrow, but heard it hit. When the deer ran about 20 feet after the shot, he hit an opening and I saw blood pouring out from the sweet spot.
I ended up centering the heart. Daily practice/muscle memory certainly paid off.
The Steelforce 125gr Phathead got a complete passthru and was stuck in the hillside behind the deer.
Even more beautiful, the deer ran about 80 yards and died right in the center of one of our two tracks, so no drag was involved! LOL
I typically look for 8pt's with out to ears width, but this hunt was too cool, too exciting and too textbook not to finish it with an arrow in flight.
I've had the luxury to hunt lots of great places and kill some really nice bucks in several out of state destinations. But the way this hunt turned out may rank it as my most satisfying.
Topic: A great morning for deer in Michigan (Read 637 times)
