Went bow hunting after work Thursday with my 21st street longbow and woodies. Found were a young buck had made a string of scraps down an old roadway across the road from my house ( one always does! }So I decided it might be a good opportunity to see if I could bag him from the ground, just me and my bow, no blind natural or other wise. So anyway, I walked down that old roadway to a spot were the road edge banks down steeper towards the creek. I chose a tree large enough to hide my torso when I stood in front of it, and decided to just stand there and see what would happen. As I walked to the tree, Two doe started running toward the south pretty much straight across from were I would be standing. Well I got to the tree, which was only about five feet from the old roadway and stood there watching without moving my head. Sure enough after about a half an hour here comes that young buck. He was walking on the same side of that old roadbed that I was standing on, and right down from the exact direction I had walked from. He gets about ten feet from me and stops, looks a round a bit and then looks right at me. I thought for sure he would make me out,and that would be that. Instead he started gaiting again right toward me and right past me at six feet away. I thought," how awesome is this" so he gets past me and goes about another ten yard occasionally dropping his head to smell the ground. Suddenly he stops, smells the ground and picks up the smell of his lady friends. Turning south with his nose to the ground, he jogs over to the other side of the roadway, giving me a perfect, slightly quartering away broadside shot. Well the rest is history because I sent a 160 grn. ace right threw both side of that deer at seven yds. He only went twenty yds. before laying down, and I waited a half hour before backing out for a return recovery. Wow, what an awesome hunt. My plan this year was to get another buck from the ground, but I thought I would be using more cover than just a tree trunk. The buck is just a year and a half old seven point, but he's a trophy to me. I was hoping for a larger buck, but the size of the hunt outweighs the size of the rack in my view. Anyway, I thought it was a good hunt to share with everyone. Enjoy your season and best of luck.
Topic: 2012 New York Deer hunting thread. (Read 9070 times)
