I was hunting this time out with my Sasquatch SS static tip built last Winter by bro Kirk at Big Foot Bows - 57# @ 28" (I draw 29.5") - smokin' fast and smooth with either Gold Tip Trad 400's or Victory VAP 400's. I had a mixture of razor sharp Steel Force Traditionals, Eclipse Werewolves and VPA 2-blade (all 300 grainers - love that EFOC
) and lost 2 high dollar arrows in the process!
Here I am 2014 - the same field and once again, in my Hidden Hunter blind. I was texting with my buddy, Ray Hammond, about some of his knives and the knife-making school he had just attending in Ashville, NC, when a nice doe steps in front of the blind and starts to feed.
I slowly picked up my bow, nocked a Gold Tip with a Steel Force Trad atop it, and when she fed broadside at about 13 yards, let it fly. She dropped down at the shot and it went higher than i aimed, but in no time the line was buzzing out of the String Tracker. A big shout out to Jerry Russell of Russell Outdoor Adventures for showing me how to properly set up a String Tracker
!
In what seemed like just a couple seconds, the line went slack - either she was down, or the line and been snagged and cut by the thorns in the blowdown into which she had bolted.
I gathered my gear and walked up to where she had been standing. About 5 yards away was my arrow - covered in blood - a passthrough and a double tracking line - one bloody, one clean!
Gotta go now to meet my bride for dinner. I'll be back later!
Topic: Redemption!! A NC deer hunting tale!! (Read 998 times)
