I set out this year to take any legal deer from the ground with the longbow I built over the summer. Id like to thank kenny m. on this sight for the great material and knowledge to make this dream come true.
On opening day I had to work in the morning but made it out for a short evening hunt. My plan was to hunt a spot inside of a corn field with a heavy trail running thru it. The corn didn't grow very well in this spot so it would hopefully offer me a shot. I was on my walk in along the edge of the field when I saw corn stalks moving on a windless evening. A closer look produced a flicker of a ear. It was about 35 yards away so I nocked a arrow and tried to close the distance. I made it about 5 yards when out of no where a button buck ran right out of the corn and stopped broadside at 25 yards, and looked back to the field offering the shot.
The shot was perfect and I watched him run off with my arrow sticking out both sides of him until he disappeared into the tree line next to a good sized creek. I gave it 15 minutes and started fallowing the quite obvious brood trail my simmons tree shark produced. I fallowed the blood just into the tree line when it just up and stopped! A little more searching showed what I had hoped wouldn't happen, he fell into the flooded creek! There was a log jam 15 yard down stream from where he went in so I camped out there until dark and he hadn't floated up yet.
The fallowing morning I was back to get him. About 10 minutes of searching and I found him in the log jam! Now the fun started when I had to wade out and get him. At any rate here's my not so big big trophy!
My bow is a 60" 58@28 binghams design hybrid longbow
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