This doe is special as I had to sit out last season with the stickbow due to my tendonitis coming back full blown. So this year I weeded out all the bows that aggravated my elbows and now I have 2 bows. A 1964 Browning Nomad and a 1969 Nomad 1.
This afternoon I headed to an oak flat with my lone wolf on my back and set up on a trail that followed the edge of a steep drop off down into a brushy bottom. It was raining acorns and my spirits were high, so was the temperature.
At 5:50 a large lone doe showed up over my left shoulder, I watched her walk out of sight into the draw. 10 minutes later she appeared on the trail I was watching. She worked in at 20 yards and started eating acorns. After 10 minutes of watching her eat, I had a case of the shakes hit me out of nowhere, so I sat back down as I needed to calm down. I've taken 88 deer with a bow but sometimes it hits me like it is the first one under me. She finally worked downwind of me and I saw the nose raise and figured it was over. She was now looking for me and on alert.
Just as I thought this wasn't going to happen a squirrel started barking and she turned her attention from me. Before I knew it the arrow was on its way, but then it disappeared out of my line of sight. There was no sound of the arrow hitting anything but the deer bolted and went crashing down into the bottom and all went silent?
I descended the tree and looked around where she stood and there was no hair, blood, or arrow. I forgot my light so I headed home to get it.
The reaction of the deer upon the shot and everything going silent so quick told me I had hit her even though there was no sign. After I returned and about an hour of searching I found her down in the brushy draw below.
I'm beat after a loooong drag, I'll try to add some pics tomorrow. I took her with my 42# 1964 nomad, arrow was a GT 1535 with 175 grains of Grizzly on the end.
Topic: 50 year old bow, takes doe! [pics added] (Read 1232 times)
