Finally scored!
- RaisedByWolves
- 500 Club
- Posts: 2441
- Joined: Tue May 18, 2010 12:49 pm
- Location: WI
- Status: Offline
Finally scored!
Finally I closed the deal yesterday after an obnoxious morning in the woods! It started just after i got into the tree i heard deer approaching. When they got under the tree i could see it was 2 does and a fawn. They hung out beneath me for about 30 minutes as it got light when i heard some fighting just beyond the next ridge over..shortly after, here come the boys! There were 3 1.5yo bucks, two 8 pointers and a fork-horn followed by a would have been 10 point half rack which looked like a 2.5yo...they all chased the same doe into a small patch of brush and had her surrounded! i almost felt bad for her. i was contemplating on shooting the half rack because my goal was to shoot a 2.5yo buck and beat my personal best archery buck. I just couldn't get myself to draw the bow on him knowing there were better bucks around...After about 20 minutes of grunting, stomping, and snort-wheezing the gang of young bucks finally made their way over the ridge from which they came and left the doe alone. She eventually wandered over to a different piece of brush on my right that wouldn't keep her safe for long...i could hear a slow moving buck making short low pitch grunts heading for the doe. She bailed from hiding and started to head for the field above. The buck must have smelled she was not ready and turned in my direction, he was a shooter! When he closed the distance, I stopped him and sent my arrow flying. the hit looked low but good, and he ran up over the field, surprisingly not looking hurt too bad . i meant to range some trees that morning but with all the deer around me i couldn't move! so what i thought was 25 yards was closer to 32... i found the arrow with lots of tallow and good blood so my dad and i decided to give him a few hours before taking up the track job. lots of good blood for about 200 yards as he crossed the field towards a nasty thick stand of pines. as he neared the pines our blood trail started to run out but we could see the likely place he entered. We decided to split up and just look for a body, but i didn't get 30 yards in the pines and there he lay my best buck with a bow so far! it was a special moment for my dad and i because on the same day last year we recovered a buck he hit that went 300 yards with no blood, and we found him in a thick stand of pines(different property). i was glad my buck didn't take as long to find but if the hit was an inch lower i might not have found him at all. The buck has 9 points and a 16" spread. And to top it all off my dad scored on a 1.5 yo 8 point last night, so we made it a double!
When better is possible, good is never good enough
-
- Site Owner
- Posts: 41588
- Joined: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:11 am
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntingBeast/?ref=bookmarks
- Location: S.E. Wisconsin
- Contact:
- Status: Offline
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1570
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:37 pm
- Location: God's Country
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Congrats to ya!!!!!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.John 3:16 KJV
- Edcyclopedia
- Posts: 12605
- Joined: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:54 pm
- Location: S. NH
- Status: Offline
-
- Posts: 234
- Joined: Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:00 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Excellent congrats
- Indianahunter
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1774
- Joined: Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:27 pm
- Location: Greensburg Indiana
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Awesome, Congrats man!
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Romans 5:8
- Dewey
- Moderator
- Posts: 36725
- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
- Location: Wisconsin
- Status: Online
Re: Finally scored!
Beautiful buck!! Congrats!
Glad to see somebody is still having some action!
Glad to see somebody is still having some action!
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1071
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:00 pm
- Location: S.C. Wisconsin
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Congrats.
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1171
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:10 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Congrats man
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 872
- Joined: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:14 am
- Location: MA
- Status: Offline
-
- Posts: 222
- Joined: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:08 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Congrats, it's always fun huntng with the old man!!
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1032
- Joined: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:56 am
- Location: Norcak
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
nice job!
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1115
- Joined: Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:02 pm
- Location: TWO RIVERS WI
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Way to go wolf man sharing the tracking with your dad makes your success even sweeter.
- AC Rider
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1010
- Joined: Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:36 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
Awesome - congrats to you and your dad
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 2078
- Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:18 am
- Location: Wisconsin
- Status: Offline
Re: Finally scored!
CONGRATS!!! Great looking buck!!
-
- Advertisement
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: tn-bear and 94 guests