Back during Hurricane Irene I was out of town in PA on a men's retreat. On that Saturday night according to my wife, our power was lost at around 7:30 PM. I got back home later in the evening on Sunday, and as fate would have it I could not get my generator started. I pulled the carbuerator off about 3 times,and I did not figure out what was wrong until a couple of days later, by then it was too late and I ended up losing all my venison that I had in my outdoor freezer. And let me tell you I am a VENISON lover, and I always have enough venison to last me from one season to the next. Needless to say I couldn't wait until the Maryland opener so I could get out and get me some fresh venison. Well opening day finaly arrived(9/15/2011). I hunted that morning and did not see a single deer. I saw a plenty of Bushytails and at about 9:15 I look over to my left and saw this nice Groundhog coming through, I grabbed my Stahl Longbow and let fly with a Black Diamond Delta 4 Blade, it took the Groundhog through the chest, and believe it or not he made it to his hole and expired. I reached down and pulled him out. I hunted in the evening on opening day as well in another stand and did not see a deer. I went hunting the next day in Montgomery county which is 75 miles away and saw 17 deer that morning and passed up a number of smaller bucks and passed up some does with fawns. I hunted that same day in the evening back in PG County, hunting from a ground blind. I get in the blind at about 4:30 PM and at 5:00 a doe with 2 spotted fawns came in and right behind them came a single doe by her self.I decide to take the single doe, but for at least a half hour I could not get a shot on the single doe, due to the fact momma and her fawns was in the way most of the time. And when the single doe would change positions, she always ended up in a position where I had no shot opportunity. Finaly a deer somewhere down through the woods was really snorting loud and it caught the attention of the deer that I was looking at out in front of my ground blind. Finaly the single doe is in position for a shot and I come to full draw with my Longbow and when I let go, the top limb of my bow hit the top metal brace of the blind, makes a loud noise and my arrow went low just under the does chest and off they took down through the woods. I went hunting in the following days with out seeing much of anything in the way of deer. Then this weekend, I had planned to be on the Eastern Shore of Maryland chasing Sika Deer with my Traditional Bow Club(The Traditional Bowhunters Of Maryland), but I had to be out of town on that Saturday, but I decided to hunt that Friday morning, but did not see any deer. So I went hunting that evening in another location and got settled in my stand at 4:30 PM. The weather is quite nice with out much wind. This stand is not far from a big marsh. Sometime later I happen to look to my left(5:30 PM) and I see a deer standing there that I did not hear come in. My bow was still hanging on it's hook. As the deer began to move from my left to my right down the trail, I was able to reach up and get my bow undetected which already had an arrow nocked. When the doe's head passed a tree at about 15 yards, I came to full draw, and when she came out I let fly and off she took back the way she had come through the marsh. I watched until I lost sight of her and I heard her go down. I only waited a few minutes and went over and picked up my arrow and saw blood right away. I went back to the tree to get my back pack and then it started to rain. So instead of following the blood trail out through the wet marsh, I cut through the woods toward the area where I thought I heard her go down, and sure enough when I went into the brush at the woods edge just outside the marsh, there she was fully expired. Man I was tickled to get some fresh venison, and today(SUNDAY) after church my Brother came to my house and we had fresh venison shoulder roast for dinner cooked in the slow cooker. Man the roast sure smelled good when I walked into the house, and it tasted just as good. Thanks for looking. 62" Dale Stahl Longbow, 58# @31", 590 Grains 5575 Goldtip Trads, Black Diamond Delta 4 Blade Broadhead.
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