Time to share another hunting experience from my neck of the woods. Yesterday was the first day of Pennsylvania's small game season. The small game season overlaps with the last two weeks of early season archery in our state. What this basically means is that small game hunters and bowhunters share the public lands for each day of those two weeks. In the area that I normally hunt this is quite a spectacle to see. I typically have anywhere from 10-20 small game hunters pass by my stand before 10 am on the first day of the season but this year the numbers were significantly down. These hunters tend to push the deer around quite a bit so it isn't unusual to see many deer at all times of the day.
Well, to make a long story short, I did manage to see 6 deer....an unidentifiable buck (that is my way of describing one that I could not count the number of points on) and five doe. I managed to be able to get a good shot at the last doe (trailing the buck) and filled my 3rd and final anterless deer tag for the season.
At the time I was using the new Hoyt Razortec that I picked up this past week coupled with some Rocket Hammerheads (3 blade model) that I had yet not used on a deer. The results were devastating! With the way I had the bow configured my setup is pushing 73 ft. of Kinetic energy and the Hammerhead is a 2 inch cutting diameter expandable. I think the results speak for themselves.....
As you can tell I had a sizable entrance and exit wound and the head's ferrule was undamaged. The blades, obviously, are bent but they are designed that way in order to bend around hard substances such as bone.
The shot was a complete pass-through and the arrow was buried in the dirt approximately 4 inches on the other side. The shot was taken at roughly 25 yards from an elevation of 20 feet. The deer was slightly quartering away at the time. The arrow passed cleanly through one lung and the made a perfect tri-cut into the heart before exiting out the "armpit".
I just thought I would share some of my good fortune with you folks.
I hope to do a full "review" of the Razortec some time today for the technical and equipment review forums. <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>
Thanks ahead of time for the posts.
Edited by - PABowhntr on 11/03/2002 06:25:43