Friday October 18th.... Now the unfortunate ending that you might have already read about...
As I was preparing to leave my stand, I took out my VPA Small Game Thumper and took my customary practice shot before I descended.
Shot taken, I was about packed up when I hear something running in the leaves...I thought "oh no!"
But it was 2 squirrels chasing....one stopped about 12yds away ans started feeding....I thought "what the heck, I'm getting down"
So I nocked an arrow with a VPA 1 1/4" 3 blade.....the squirrel stopped feeding as it became aware of me in the tree...but it didn't move.
I draw and shoot, and it goes into the squirrel matrix move....I knew I was close...and thought I may have nicked it because it jumped up on the stump next to it.....and it acted a bit weird.
It came off the stump as I reloaded, and shot again, but I knew I'd just missed this time.
As he disappeared over the hill I could see it was laboring a bit and I thought....hmmmmmm
This is what I found...
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I got closer and noticed something small laying under the arrow...
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A closer look revealed this...
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Cut clean off in a perfect v-cut where 2 of the 3 blades caught it's foot!
Crazy!!!
I did find some blood over the hill about 5 yds away, but no trace after that and the squirrel was long gone....
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I'm sure it'll live to gather nuts another day....but like I said, I feel kinda bad about it.
Who knows, maybe I'll get another chance at it
I'm long overdue to wrap my hands around a big set of antlers....
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