Story and pics coming in the morning.
Congrats... :campfire: :coffee:
Oh, Ill wait here... :coffee:
Excellent...will be looking forward to the full story
Guess you got the hunting in/around the rain figured out :thumbsup:
:coffee: waiting for a stiry
Looking forward to em'..!!
That's not fair! :knothead: :thumbsup:
Tease!
Congrats can't wait to see pics!!
Not even an arrow in the ground picture to hold us over?
Congrats !!
I'll wait on the story and pic's before congratulating.
Because without pic's it didn't happen :readit: :saywhat:
Oh Baby!!!!!!
:campfire: :coffee:
Awesome can't wait to see the pictures!
tic toc tic toc...
It's morning,.... :readit: ..... :coffee:
I know we turned the clocks back and all but... :goldtooth:
Sorry boys, wanted to post last night but I was falling asleep as I added the post lol. So here we go.
About a year ago my father and I lost access to a large chunk of private land that we did most of our bowhunting on. To remedy this situation we really started breaking down the smaller portions of private land we still have access to. It's amazing how you can find fantastic hunting spots in some of the most unlikely areas. The spot I hunted yesterday is one of those unique spots. In essence it is a transition area between two thick bedding areas. The strange thing about it is that its only about a 3 acre piece of woods between two gravel township roads that butt up against our neighbors thick woods. So it feels strange having cars and trucks and farm equipment moving all around you while you hunt lol. However, I also believe this is the reason that the deer are hardly ever aware of my presence.
Alright so, most of you guys are aware that I had been complaining about this weekend being bad weather for my vacation days. To my surprise the weather cooperated and made for some really nice hunts. On Thursday evening I saw some good buck activity in the spot I was referring to and on Friday morning I saw I really nice 10 point enter that transition area but staying around 40 yards away. All of the buck activity was happening down the ridge below my hang on stand so on Saturday morning I decided to grab my hand climber and move down the ridge closer to where the activity had been. My dad decided to sit in my hang on stand higher on the ridge.
The morning was slow until around 11:15 when I saw legs moving along the ridge towards me and then antlers! I whistled at dad and got ready. The buck stopped 10 yards away and started making a scrape it was awesome! I considered shooting him at the scrape but he was quartering to pretty hard so I opted to wait. The problem however was I was already a nervous train wreck after watching this dude make that scrape.
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As he made his way in front of me I drew and I hit anchor, however I panicked and did not stop him nor lead him as I shot. It's amazing how you can drive tacks at 10 yards all day long but put a live animal in front of me and watch everything change! I thought I had hit him waay back but I saw blood pouring out of him as he took off and went crashing into the neighbors thick property. I looked back at my dad and he quickly gave me a thumbs up. He had a front row seat of the show!
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We waited about 40 min and then climbed down to check it out. I texted our neighbor and got the okay to go grab him. The blood trail was short. He had only made it about 60 yards from where I hit him. The shot was a bit back but not as bad as I thought, mid body or so. The snuffer did a fantastic job and I am assuming I hit the big artery and probably liver as the shot was steep and slightly quartering away. I couldn't be happier with him and it was another great hunt with my Dad!
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The bow was a Morrison ILF 50# @ 28, beman ICS bowhunter 400 with 125 grain old school snuffer and 50 grain insert. Thanks for reading fellas!
:thumbsup: Nice one.....
Amazing the hide outs deer can find and many folks never know it Congrats he's a hoss!
Nice...Thanks for sharing!
Good deal! Congrats!
Well done. Congratulations.
congrats!
Nice work, great hunt with your dad :clapper:
:clapper:
Nice buck! :clapper:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Nice worth waiting for!
A stud congratulations
Anybody know what the deal with the photobucket pics is? I can't seem to figure out how to get my pics back up.
So now we have to pay to upload our photos lol
I can't see the pics.... GRRRRRR!
They were up all morning now gone!
Pics?
I can't see the pic's, arggggh!
Yup - still alot of folks that can't view photobucket pics. I've ran the "fix" many times but it simply doesn't work for me.
Excellent harvest...congrats!
Pics are not showing.
Gotta use Imgur. Photo crap don't work.
Congrats!
I clicked on the picture and was able to see the whole file...
Stud of a buck! Congrats!
Thanks guys. Working on fixing pics currently.
Nice, congrats! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
congrats
great job
Wow! What a great day to share with your Dad. Congratulations on a beautiful buck.
Congrats. Thanks for sharing. Great buck.
Dan in KS
Wow great buck! Congrats!
Great job. Really enjoyed the story. Now its your dads turn. Congrats. :thumbsup:
Awesome job. That's a beautiful deer.
Well done , Beautiful deer.....
,,,Sam,,,
Nice one. I like the blood trail photo too.
Tedd
Oh now I see said the blind man, great buck! Congrats :clapper: :clapper:
Nice deer and good write up
Congrats!
I can see the pics, all right!!!
Congrats on a great hunt and a great buck. :thumbsup:
Beautiful buck, well done!
Nice buck, Great you got to share the hunt with your dad!
Attaboy!!
Tim B
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Great buck. Congrats!
Great buck!
Great buck!
Congrats on a very nice buck~~ :thumbsup:
Congrats!!
Dang man! That's an awesome deer!
Thanks to everyone! Best of luck to you guys!
That was an awesome hunt and for your Dad to get to witness it was icing on the cake!
Wow congratulations!!!
Congrats!!!