The rut is on in Central Florida.

I had a grunting buck follow a doe into my small food plot on Saturday. He sucked up the smell of my smoking sticks from Deer Quest--- i'm only a satisfied customer. He stood there in the wide open not presenting a shot for 3-4 minutes.

The doe moved off to my left, he did a low limb lick, grunted a little more, then stood still continuing to face me in my ground blind. Then I hear another grunt behind me, I'm not getting greedy, I'm shooting the dude in the wide open.

The doe turns her ears up and bolts, the buck stands his ground, walks to my left and gets broadside. I put one in him but high and to the front---- another part of a deer you don't want with a bow.

He bolts, taking my arrow with him, a friend and I trail him 500 yards into a dried up creek bed. He finally laid down there, we found a blown out blood clot 4 hours later, but no deer.

I went back last nite and in that creek bed I found 2 bear skulls, bones from 3 different deer and several other critters. For the record, I will from now on remember wounded animals head for water.

Any thoughts?