I went out this afternoon with not alot of confidence that I would see a whole lot of deer, if any, as the wind was howling and the snow was flying. I thought what better of a day to be out there slowly stalking through the trees, just to see what I could see. The wind was gusting up to 33 mph, and there was no way I was going to be up in my treestand.
At the sign in area ( public hunting grounds ) I expected to see 5 to 10 vehicles as this is the normal amount of hunters parked there almost every night. Much to my surprise, there was only one other guy at the parking area when I got there. When I met him, he actually laughed when he saw I was carrying a recurve. He was too! He was laughing that he was not the only person crazy enough to be out hunting in weather like this, but another recurve shooter was out there too. We exchanged good lucks and to each their merry way.
About 35 minutes later I'm slowly creeping through the timber and notice some movement to the northeast of me. Turkeys, and a bunch of them. About the time I am putting my binoculars up to look at them, out of the southeast strolls a decent 4x3 on the troll for does only 15 yards from me. I had no time to get an arrow ready, and he continued on to the northwest, but I did manage to find my grunt call and grunt at him about five times with no response from him at all.
Five minutes go by, and I'm thinking I need to be about 15 yard deeper in the brush to break up my outline when he appears again. Mr. 4x3 is coming straight at me and I knew it was the same deer as he had a bloody right ear from fighting which I noticed the first time I saw him
Down on my right knee I waited for him to finally turn broadside. After giving me "the look " once, twice, three times, he finally turned and gave me a 15 yard quartering away shot that I made good on. I was shooting a Chek-Mate Hunter II 55lbs @ 28" and a Wensel Woodsman on a Blackhawk Vapor 3000. He went about 80 yards before going down.
This is not my biggest deer I've ever shot, but certainly the most memorable.
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Happy to see that you had some success,especially on a good un.
Congrats on your first of many :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Congrats! :thumbsup: Thats a real good buck for your first. Good story too.
Nice job, Score one more for Chec-mate. I am hopeing to bag one saturday.
Congratulations! :thumbsup:
God Bless!
Jim
Great job..Deer like to move in the snow...congrats.
good buck...great story! :thumbsup:
Sweet!
Very nice! I can't see a thing wrong with that buck! Ya done good! CK
My-t-fine, I would say. Good job.
Yes indeed, congrats. Very nice to get'em on the ground :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Great story, great buck.
Congrats!
TOMANO
Congrats!!!
Good job! That's a nice one.
Nice deer, any deer with Trad gear is a trophy in my book.
Congrats, Jerry
Two Arrows, you sure have a lot of salt laying on the ground around ya. :eek:
Really nice for a first. Good job.
Great story.
Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
cool!
that is an exciting story- particularly for one who has never (yet!) hunted with a traditional bow!!!!
Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations!
Doug, oh what a feeling, right?
I am still waiting on my first trad kill, congrats pard!
Congrats! Very nice deer and story.
-Brian
www.bowyersjournal.com (http://www.bowyersjournal.com)
Oh what a feeling is right! Thanks all for your nice comments.
Today I'm feeling the effects of getting that bugger out of the woods. It is a walk in only area so I had to use my deer cart to get him out of there. The cart didn't work all that well with the snow on the ground. I bet I used the cart for half of the way, and dragged him on the snow for the other. It was about a 3/4 mile chore but well worth it.
YEA BABY :thumbsup:
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Ya done good!! Ain't it great when you use the old stick bow. One arrow and gooood meat,thats whats for supper. Chort
nice story and pics..
congrats its a great feeling!
Great buck,story and pic!!Ya look cold,that wind is tough,huh. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Doug
Congrats!! That's a good story, especially given the other guy you saw was also shooting a recurve!
Great story and deer, Doug. It is always so exciting on the ground, you'll treasure this on for a long time. Wind, rain, whatever, the deer are still out there.
Doug, good job on a nice looking buck. Should be some fine eating.
On the ground, stick and string, man that's livin
Good buck, congrats.