Messed up an arrow!

[TimRadke]

I've always hated those "teaser" posts that only give you a little information at a time, making you check back every so often to find out what happened... don't you?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Yes

[Zradix]

you know...
Spoons work better for stirring chilli...

[mcgroundstalker]

:p

[RM81]

I knew by the title this would be one too.  ha ha.

[Dirtybird]

C'mon man!

[ron w]

I hate this one already.......          

[TimRadke]

I had waited 9 years to draw a Wisconsin bear tag, and never having hunted bear before, and not having had the chance to shoot as much as I should that summer, I debated between the recurve and a compound.  I was relatively confident with my recurve out to about 15 yards, but “relatively” wasn’t fair to whichever bear decided to come near my stand, nor was it fair to whoever could be helping me track a wounded bear on a less than ideal hit.  I ended up taking the compound, and tagged out, but this isn't a bear story.  While I still think it was the right decision to carry my compound, I can now only imagine the feelings I could have experienced had I taken him with the recurve.

A few weeks and a few hundred shots later, I found myself in a 15 foot ladder stand on the edge of a cornfield with “Kaylee’s Autumn” hanging beside me - a custom RER recurve named after and in honor of the birth of my little girl.

 

 I had never taken a deer with a recurve before, it had been nearly 20 years since my last traditional deer fell.  A heavily used trail entered the field 10 yards to my left; a trail that had supplied me multiple impressive trail camera pictures of deer for years prior....

[rastaman]

[FerretWYO]

I dont hate them all that much

[wapiti792]

I love them!!! Drag it out. We NEED huntin' stories like this that take 3 days. Gives me something to look forward to  

[huskyarcher]

You sir, are a skidmark on the underpants of life.

Lol jk.

[Pointer]

Yep... you sure did....in the best possible way too...congratulations

[Jack Ripper]

I ain't gettin any younger  

[bruinman]

LOL, awesome!

[Yellow Dog]

 That arrow tells the story, well almost. Can't wait for the rest. Bloody arrow plus RER can only mean one thing-----deer in the freezer!

[Fritz]

Keep it coming! I got my payback last yr by dragging a story out. By the end of it I think the boys were ready to lynch me!      

[Lin Rhea]

[TimRadke]

A few hours later, i finally heard something approaching from behind me, and I was quite pleased to see three yearling does approaching this heavily used trail, still far enough away to allow me to get turned and in position for a possible shot.  As the first doe neared, she hesitated and performed the foot-stomping head-bobbing dance that we all know all too well.  She stiff-legged into my best shooting lane and stood broadside at 12 yards, but she was still on edge and I feared she would spook if I tried to draw.  Besides, if she made it to the cornfield safe, the other two deer should be more relaxed if they followed in her footsteps, so I passed on this deer.  30 seconds later, my prediction came true as the second yearling stepped perfectly into my opening as the first doe posed in front of my trail camera 18 yards away from my tree.

I burned a spot in the middle of the 2nd deer’s chest with my eyes while reminding myself to squeeze my shoulder blades together as I slowly began my draw..

[Thumper Dunker]