I hunted opening weekend down in Grey, GA this past weekend and saw a total of 2 tree rats and one hawk all weekend, but I was grateful to have spent a long overdue sit in the beautiful GA woods. I didn’t get to hunt on Monday, due to having to catch up on my honey-do-list. So I decided that Tuesday would be my day to hunt a suburban Atlanta whitetail. I got up Tuesday to find that we were going to have 10-15MPH winds all day and was hesitant to do so. However I decided that sitting in the woods as better than on the couch.
I got off work and was able to make it into the stand at around 5PM. As soon as I got in the stand I immediately check the wind, which was blowing NW, which was perfect for my stand setup.
Well about 2 hours into the sit, I started wonder if I was going to see anything…since nothing was moving other that the wind. At about 7:30 pm, out slip this doe at about 20yds coming from the NW. I thought that she was going to detect me due to the wind, but she walk right in not giving me a shot. When she got to about 12yds she turned and gave me a perfect profile shot, but as I was about to hit anchor, she turned and walked away…..to my right… Dang Dang Dang. She continued to my left and stopped about 10 yds behind my stand; at that point I decided to attempt to stick her. I picked a spot using the “RC method-aim low” and released as soon as I hit anchor and watched the arrow disappear when it struck. She took off, and I thought that I heard her crash about 30 yds away. I didn't wait my customarily 30 minutes and came on down to check the area where I had shot, and to my pleasure I found a single drop blood. I’ve gotta say, at this point I started to get a little worried, because there wasn’t a lot of blood. At about 10 yds from the shot, I was relieved when I saw my arrow sticking up from the ground and it was covered in blood. At that point I gave thanks and gave a silent yell (it was my first pass threw and first with a wooden arrow that I made). I continued the follow the sparse blood trail for another 10 yds and saw her white belly laying a couple yards ahead. WHAT A RUSH!!! Doe #1
Black Widow 54" PSR V 57# @ 28in, I draw 26 1/2”
Surewood Douglas Fir (tapered) 60-65, 4 fletch
Zipper Grizzly 160gr BH
Topic: PSR Sheds Blood (Read 1068 times)
