My wife, Laura, is not retired like her old fart husband. So she can hunt sporadically. I have a stand set up for her that I rarely hunt. It is the best (most active) on our property so I consider it "her" stand as I only hunt it if I know she won't be able to for several days. Yesterday she decided she needed to go out and hunt. She's been very busy with her web design business and with the rainy/snowy evening coming thought she owed it to herself to go out with me. On the way to the property she commented that we need to get one early and find it quickly so that we don't have to leave it overnight. We arrived at the stands about 1:30 PM. She got up in hers and I went the 100 yards to my Double Bull blind which finally has started to show signs of day time feeding activity. As we went our separate ways we agreed that if one of us scored we would simply come and get the other so we could get on the trail.
At about 3:30 she showed up at my blind. "Get one"?, I asked. "Yes" was the reply, "and I saw her go down". Simply, a deer she has passed on previously came in an gave her a broadside shot. She typically won't shoot a doe but this one seemed to be without a fawn and we needed venison in the freezer. It's been a hard hunt this year. Her shot was not perfect and the arrow, tipped with a razor sharp Razorcap, hit the doe in the hip, severing the femoral artery and the deer went down in sight about 30 yards from her stand.
I was very proud. She shot her first doe (up til now she would only shoot something with headgear) and she put meat in the freezer, always getting a deer before me. And while she is a much better shot than this kill would lead one to believe, my guess is that the deer moved as she released. That kind of inaccuracy just is not her. Nevertheless, she brought home the bacon, we got it done early. We registered the deer at the local archery shop and when I checked my watch on the way to the butchers it was just at last shooting light. Laura was shooting her DAS Gen I riser with Morrison Max I Super short limbs that weighed it at 44# @ 26". Her arrow were Easton FMJ with 200 grain Razor caps, four fletched with Lumenoks. We found the broken fletched end of the arrow where the deer was standing but never found the pointy end.
As I was dressing the deer she said, "Look at this scrape" and there, not 10 yards away was a fresh scrape…very fresh. Guess I know where I will be tonight .
Topic: Wife gets it done! (Read 988 times)
