Yes...      

what makes this worse is that i'm a good 6hrs or so behind you guys so i'll be up a bit more WAITING!!! well worth it though,,,good tale so far    and about this warp speed doe  :confused:

I know the outcome of this story and your still killing me,hurry up all ready.

After seeing the buck take off, I finished getting set up, and immediately saw a yearling doe about 60 yards up the ridge. She was just feeding along slowely, meandering in and out of site. Suddenly she starts running down towards me at an angle which took her slightly to my right side. I had time to stand and get my string fingers in place and drawn. I baaed at her to get her to stop at three yards from my tree, she took an immediate right turn and under my tree she went. I followed her and tried to get a lead, but shot well behind her. I should have never dropped the string on her, but reactions won't let me stop! My first trad miss at a deer!

therejoeyahappy?

Does are hard to hit when they got the thrusters on!!  :eek:

And after all that coaching this spring Kenny.    :p

I know how it ends too, but still am looking forward to the rest of the tale here.

okay,,, you got your first miss out of the way aannndddd,,,  

C'mon Kenny, I'm going to bed after Shark   :rolleyes:

So, it's getting light this morning as I make my way up into the stand I was in last night. Another just perfect morning to be in the woods. I hear soft tree yelps off to my right, a hen with this years hatch answering her soft yelps with even softer purrs. Then a rustling noise behind me by the creek, I slowly turn and see antler tips and a leg just under the cut-bank of the creek. I can't believe it. He came in and beded down on a sand/gravel bar, and all I can see is antler tips and a leg. I try to estimate the distance. I'm in a tree about 20 feet up, the tree starts about ten feet above the elevation of the creek, so thats 30 feet above him, and I guesstimated the tree was 20 yards from the creek edge. That seemed like a long way from the tree stand, I had no shot anyway so I turned around and watched where I had shots.

A small doe came from my left and angled up the ridge about 40 yards out, too far and too much brush, more noise behind me.

Slowly I turn and watch the buck change positions, he's out from behind the bank, and turns 90 degrees and lays back down, just antler tips and a leg again. Something didn't look right when he lurched up and plopped down.
Rustling to my left, gray squirrel. Soft yelps to my right, more purrs and clucks. I'm in turkey heaven!  

Why do you guys have to make a Mini Series out of every thing?  Just tell the story, some of us have work to do!

You CAN'T be done!!

More noise behind me, rustling and sounded like moans, I see the antler tips slowly tilting to the side , then coming errect again. Like someone nodding off to sleep. I start thinking the buck got hit by a car or wounded or something. We are experiencing some die-off due to midges biting the deer and the deer contracting something that kills them. He tries to get up and falls back to his original position.
I hear running feet in leaves to my left, I turn and see twins playing in the leaves and acorns, they are on a path to within yards of my stand, one open lane about ten yards out. They're small, but it's the last morning of my trip. Do I take one? Yes if I get an open shot. They turn and go up the ridge. The top of that ridge is a magnet, 6 deer seen on it in 15 hours. More noise behind me, his front end is exposed and he's trying to get up, I turn, what's the right thing to do, he's suffering, I have the means to end it, can I do it from here, do I have to tag him, if I don't Joe will. I don't want Joe to use his buck tag like this, his back end is almost up, I have a clear shot. I draw, the arrow leaves and goes where I look, he lurches up as the arrow leaves, I hit him back too far. He goes down and doesn't move. All I see is the fletch and my nock, and the tips of his legs.

Tap, (type), tap, (type), tap (type), ahhh, take your time now Kenny, I'm going' to bed and huntin' in the morning, so I'll finish readin' this tomorrow, but something tells me I am going to like this ending......    

David

Sorry Tim. If I type it all in one setting it'll take me an hour.

Also I've been gone for two days and I had to spend a little time with my family.

Thats alright, I just figured it was some type of eastern tradition or something????  :confused:

13 inches inside.

RER Vortex
50# @27

Was he hit by someone ele? Shawn

Well done Kenny.