It seems like everyone on here was having so much fun and doing so well this season and I wasn't seeing much, that I was starting to wonder if it was going to happen this year for me or not. Well, it came together Friday evening. With about 10 minutes of shooting light left, I was standing up in the stand, bow at the ready. Figuring, the evening is about done, I'm thinking about where I will hunt the next day when I hear a twig snap just to the right of me. That isn't a squirrel! I glance over to the right to see this long nose doe walking in without a care in the world. I look ahead to see where she will be broadside and I can get a clear shot. She needs to go around a 10 foot high tree stump and I'm all set. She suddenly stops just before the stump and gazes off into the distance. I realize she is maybe 5 steps from my wind line and actually slightly quartering away, so why wait. I make the draw, pick a spot and let it fly. I hear a loud crack and she runs off with a lot of arrow sticking out, but the entry is exactly where I was aiming. I watch her run into a stand of hollies and then hear her go down. I text my partner and then get out of the tree slowly and back out to fetch him. There isn't a lot of blood, but she is down not 30 yards from where she was hit. I caught both lungs and penetrated through the opposite side shoulder. The arrow broke off as she was running and I recovered the back half. The front portion worked it's way out and lay where she fell.
I used my 48# Leon Stewart Slammer with CE 150 arrows w/125gr Stinger 2-blade heads and 50gr brass inserts. It's nice when it all comes together. I have taken deer with recurves before, but this was my first longbow kill.
It's great to shoot a big racked buck, but fooling these older long nose does isn't easy and I'll take the meat in the freezer. I can hunt horns the rest of the season.
Topic: Slammer connects (Read 437 times)
