I was fortunate enough Sunday evening (11/2/14) to harvest my best buck yet.
Had smaller bucks running does Sunday morning but no shot opertunities. Climbed down about 11:30 to head home for lunch and when I returned the land owners had told me they had gone back to the woods on their john deer gator and saw "a good buck" somewhat close to the stand I hunted in the morning. I figured they had chased everything out of the woods but I was here may as well hunt so I headed to the stand I hunted in the morning around 2:30.
Hadn't seen anything moving and was getting bored when at a little after 5 o'clock I heard a twig snap near a creek crossing in front of me 45 yards or so in front of me. After a minute of looking for the source of the noise I could make out some deer legs. Shortly after that the deer started towards my location and soon noticed it was a good buck but headed straight to me I didn't know just how good. At about 30 yards out he started angling down a trail that would lead him a touch over 20 yards from me. Once he turned I could tell I was going to shoot if given the opertunity. He cleared some branched and broadside I drew back picked my spot and the arrow was on its way.
When I release he hit the deck and went to take off so the arrow hit high and back a bit and he bolted off but stopped about 40-50yards away. He looked around as if baffled by what just happened and I noticed my arrow sticking up out of his back which reassured me it was a poor hit and most likely a long night of tracking ahead. Much to my surprise after 20 or so seconds of standing there he fell right over. I had hit a main artery just below the spine and he had bled out.
I was using a 3 piece takedown longbow I built. 64" 50@28" shooting 2 fletched gt tipped with tree sharks weighing in at 600 grains.
He ended up being a main frame 10 with a 8.5" 3rd main beam
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