ORIGINAL: jimmy the foot

Iam a bowhunter first and saw quite a few this year. Got close a couple of times but no cigar. Saw nothing but white tails and flashes of brown in the thicket a couple times during gun season and was coming to the conclusion that this year i would be skunked. Well last night was a funny night. got done watching the bills game and decided to go out and sit in this corneroff ofa corn field that had just been cut down earlier that week. I was in black dress shoes and bluejeans with a jacket covered in an orange vest. i had conviced myself that i would see nothin so why the hell dress up like a real predator. So just before sunset i saw a deer step out and then another only closer.I raised my 835 slaying machineand squeezed the trigger oh so gently. The 3" lightfield screamed through the air and hit the front shoulder like a cannonball! He dropped right in his tracks.S o fast when i brought my head off of the gun i couldn't see him and at first thoughti'd missed.Thedoejumped at the crack of the death cannon and looked in the direction of the buck. Then i knew the slaying had begun. She just stood there. Hanging around for ever just looking at him. So i had to do what any carnivore would do. I lay that girl to rest and thank the gods for this shmorgishborg of meat i was gonna have for this cold winter. The 400+ gr sabot him her right in the thoracic cavity and she bolted for the treeline. i found her in the tall grass not fourty feet from where she took the blow from my meat slayer.

Then the games began!

gut her.
spill her.
drag her.

Then i go backover to him. He was the first one i had shot and he was still breathing a little when i saw him.I decided to give him a little more time and see if i could find her. After i was finished with her it was then that i went back over to see him.

Not good brothers.

My shot had hit his front shoulder, but he was far from expiring. it was dark by now and i wasn't comfortable shooting again with the fact that i wasnear a populated area. so i had to do something I've never done before.

The neck cut.

Terrible. Terrible!I love horror and violent movies.I play pantball with guys who enjoy cranking their guns and playing till you cry mercy. I work in an OR and have seen people unfortunately pass from complications during surgery.I did a tour in the service and don't see myself as a softy what so ever. But that was one of the lowest things i think I've ever seen and done. i knew it had to be done but it wasn't pretty and seemed like it took forever for him to pass.I hope to god i never have to do it again. Just terrible.

But thats part of huntin and you have to take the good with the bad.
Next year i think I'll carry a silenced HK USP 9mm. Just kidding.

Hope all of ya had a successfull year and a happy holidays.

Jimmy the foot out.