Halloween 87. Noble County, OK. Evening hunt, overcast, wind S20, temp 70+. I was sitting down in a ground blind in a Persimmon thicket. 2 bucks come in from upwind, and enter the brushy draw I'm watching. They're 40 yds+ out, I loose sight of them but I can SMELL them. Then I see movement, and they're coming up out of there, right toward my kill zone. The lead animal just keeps walking right in, I draw and he stops at about 10 yards, but there's a little bit of brush in the way so I wait. After a few seconds, he takes a few more steps and stops broadside at about 7 yards, wide open, and looks right at me. I concentrate with all I've got, and drill him perfect. He bolts off 100 yards through open meadow (right towards the road), takes a hard left and dissapears behind a thicket. I walk up on him while he's still alive, the arrow didn't even pass completely through. This was when I was using the wasp original 3 blade heads. 6 pointer, field dressed about 100lbs.
I have taken 2 Bucks on Holloween-Both in Northern Ill.. one a 165# Forky in 1970 with an American Archery Recurve, standing in the croch of a tree (no platform or stand) 15 yd shot& another in 1974 standing in the croch of another tree-a 7 point, 172#. He walked by in 2nd row of standing corn & I shot & missed at 20 yds., he ran back throungh the corn about 60 yds. & doubled back in the timber on a trail 25 yds. behind me-that was his biggest mistake. 2nd shot was a double lunger.
Won't be out tonight, but I think of those Deer every holloween.
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1ST BOW BUCK
