Well it is getting close to the right time of the year here in MS. I have had a really good season so far, with one exception. I have been hunting a Buck I call bull for most of the season. He is a 5.5 year old heavy mass 8pt. I have had him 15 yards or less on 5 different occasions. I could have shot him slightly 1/4 to 3 of those times, but I didn't want to take that shot. The other 2 times it was to late to see him good enough. I had also been seeing a nice 5.5 plus year old ten point and had passed him once at 17 yards quartering away, thinking that bull would show himself. Well as luck would have it Bull was killed 3/4 of a mile by one of my buddies with training wheels. I was a little down, so I decided to take My Black Widow PCH "Black Death" to the tree for the first time ever. I got it back in March and have not hunted with it yet, Ive been taking the Talltines which I have grown to love. Anyway I had been seeing a lot of does in this area and there still was an old mature 10 point. I went there just to shoot a doe with my PCH I don't like owning a bow I have not killed a deer with, HA
So I got in the tree about 2 that afternoon. I climbed around 20 feet. Reached in my pocket to grab my safety strap rope and dropped it 20 feet to ground. Well I decided to pull my bow up tie an arrow to it my pullup rope and see if the Battle Axe could snag my rope. Well it worked first try. As I was pulling my rope back up I heard the UN-mistakable sound of buck foot steps. It was a buck we call Stump 6.5 plus 8 pt 50 yards heading the other way. Well I finally got situated and about ten minutes later had a small buck come out of the cutover and bed down 40 yards in front of me. At 3:15 he stood up and started staring into the cutover. Here comes a doe and yarlin headed to what was left of the acorns. They came in and started feeding. For some reason I didn't shoot her. Then all the sudden there were 5 bucks all started chasing the one doe. 2 really nice 3 year old 8s and some younger bucks.
After she tried to come back around to eat two more times with continued harassment, she finally gave up I guess and headed back into the cutover. And took all the bucks with her. It was now 4:30 and there was no deer in sight.
Then I heard it faint heavy steps in the thicket ahead of me, I see him its the ten point. He is heading down a trail that will take him 15 yards from me . I get set and wait. He hits a scrape, rips up a tree, and lets out one of the best snort wheezes I have ever heard. Well this got me to shaking a little. Here he comes He is on a steady walk approaching my shooting lane. I draw anchor and when he hits my opening I settle in on my spot and loosed the 300 gr battle axe tipped arrow.
First thought DEAD, he stumbles runs about 20 yards falls in the road between hardwoods and cutover. He gets up crashes through a slough and is entaggled in the vine thicket. Silence!!!
Here is a pic of the impact site exactly where he was standing when it hit him.
This is how I found Him!!!
Here is the entrance hole
And here is the finished product of The First Hunt with My PCH BW Ebony 57@28 "BLACK DEATH"
Topic: Mississippi Buck Down (Read 1184 times)
