10-03-2005, 11:59 PM
well i couldn't have picked a better run .
had a deer snort and crash off as i got near my ground blind in the pree dawn hour of 6 am . thought for sure i wouldn't see anything for hours after that noise .
come daylight doe after doe came walking by , 17 in all . then a pair of 6 points came thru , they stoped to feed on the acorns , first one down to eat while the other stood watch , then they would switch dutys . i drew up on the first one just as they were switching , the second buch had a larger rack , i just moved my sights over to him , thunk !
the shot outta there like crasy , i knew i hit a little high , but waited 15 minutes to be sure he was going to be down for the count . after 5 minutes a nice doe came in , well i thought , i can fill that tag too , thunk went another arrow and down she went about 10 yards away .
i looked for a blood trail on the buck and couldn't find a drop , i knew i hit it .
i followed the hoof tracks for about a hundred yards before finding 1/2 of my arrow and a long trail of blood . the trail lasted another 100 yards and suddenly stopped , no more hoof tracks either . i backtracked , re studyed the trail for signs of backtracking of the deer . circled the blood trails end time and time again without another blood spot or hoof print to be found , he just vanished in a clearing the size of a football feild . three of us spent a little over 9 hours looking for that buck , but we decided after all that time in 80 degree heat that if we did locate him there wouldn't be much to salvage .
i spent all day sunday making jerkey out of the doe on the smoker , i'm set for ice fishing season now .
dosen't look like we'll get cool weather for the rest of the week so the bow is going to get a rest . there's some salmon calling me for saturday and i'm gonna visit them .
those puffballs are starting to come up all over the woods , sounds like i'll be taking a onion bag with me for some fresh shrooms for a venison or tree chicken stew for the cool days ahead , yummy , yummy !
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had a deer snort and crash off as i got near my ground blind in the pree dawn hour of 6 am . thought for sure i wouldn't see anything for hours after that noise .
come daylight doe after doe came walking by , 17 in all . then a pair of 6 points came thru , they stoped to feed on the acorns , first one down to eat while the other stood watch , then they would switch dutys . i drew up on the first one just as they were switching , the second buch had a larger rack , i just moved my sights over to him , thunk !
the shot outta there like crasy , i knew i hit a little high , but waited 15 minutes to be sure he was going to be down for the count . after 5 minutes a nice doe came in , well i thought , i can fill that tag too , thunk went another arrow and down she went about 10 yards away .
i looked for a blood trail on the buck and couldn't find a drop , i knew i hit it .
i followed the hoof tracks for about a hundred yards before finding 1/2 of my arrow and a long trail of blood . the trail lasted another 100 yards and suddenly stopped , no more hoof tracks either . i backtracked , re studyed the trail for signs of backtracking of the deer . circled the blood trails end time and time again without another blood spot or hoof print to be found , he just vanished in a clearing the size of a football feild . three of us spent a little over 9 hours looking for that buck , but we decided after all that time in 80 degree heat that if we did locate him there wouldn't be much to salvage .
i spent all day sunday making jerkey out of the doe on the smoker , i'm set for ice fishing season now .
dosen't look like we'll get cool weather for the rest of the week so the bow is going to get a rest . there's some salmon calling me for saturday and i'm gonna visit them .
those puffballs are starting to come up all over the woods , sounds like i'll be taking a onion bag with me for some fresh shrooms for a venison or tree chicken stew for the cool days ahead , yummy , yummy !
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