Well back to my doe hunt. Robert drove up after dark and I was the first picked up. We looked at the shot site and found the first half of the arrow covered in good blood. About 10 yards away Robert found the other half, similarly covered. But we didn't see any other blood which surprised me. Robert said lets get the other guys and make a search which made sense as he is color blind and no longer has Taz, his deer finding and deer biting dog.
Picked up Bob and turned out he had shot a doe but was not completely sure about the hit or the direction the doe evacuated. The stands we hunt out of are well camouflaged but you tend to lose sight of an animal very quickly.
We went to pick up the other guys to start looking and found Jeff wondering about an arrow he had loosed at a late hog. We looked around a bit and found it virgin so we headed back to look for Bob's doe.
Bob was confouded as he expected to see the arrow somewhere. We looked all around for an hour or so and did not find the arrow or one drop of blood. Decided to leave and look for in in the A.M.
Went back to my stand and spread out to look for sign. It was very spotty and we only picked up blood where a small streak had landed on the numerous white rocks which covered my area. We looked for a long time, moving slowly as Bob was gifted in finding small splats as I was lighting the foreground expecting to see the doe any second. This went on for quite a while and I finally found the doe piled up against the fence as Robert had predicted estimated 400 yards away. As I moved up to get a nice picture in my excitement I failed to realize that the doe had piled up against the fence at a big prickly pear protuberance.
I was excited and dropped down for the bad I-Phone pic and was greeted by a bunch of prickly pear thorns which worked on me for the rest of the week. Sorry no pics as photobucket has lost me.
Thanks to all the guys on the trip and for making it another really memorable hunting experience. We didn't kill many animals this year but we probably had more opportunities/near opportunities than in any of my 4 trips to Solana. These are really tricky deer.
Topic: OFFICIAL 2013 SOLANA RANCH HUNT THREAD (Read 19110 times)
