Short story ,

Montana's was hot last week , 90's during the day and down towards the 40s most of the nights , opening morning my guide and myself did some spot an stalk , got within 100 yards and the wind was wrong , swirling , the bane of elk hunters . called it a mourning . Went back for the afternoon hunt , and sat on a water hole , I was instructed not to shoot mully bucks , and as luck would have it saw plenty and had 2 shooters within 25 yards . around last light I cussing my guide for not letting me shoot mully's when 8 cows run into the water hole , they drink for awhile and I here a bugle close , see antlers comming and get ready , I cant stand because 8 cows are 5 to 10 yards from me , He comes in , to my right , the wrong place for a right hand archer whos seated , most of us have been in this situation , I get turned as well as posable and draw , hes 25 yards , ancor and place my pins getting ready to release and notice my bottom limb is touching a tree limb , a small limb , and Im thinking just release , you know how we tend to rush in the heat of the moment , anyway I decide in a split second not to do it and ruin my chance and let down , I look down and one of the cows is looking right at me , I wait and she returns to drinking , I spin slightly on my seat and reach around the limb kind of contorted , get to ancor place my pin and release , he bolts , the cows bolt , he stops on a ridge 50 yards from me an turns to look at his cows , they were still 20 yards from me , as I watch his left back leg starts to quiver , 10 seconds later hes on his back with feet in the air , just like wide world of sports . I get down with cows barking at me and retreve my arrow which has completly passed through him and buried in the ground , there is no blood trail , but I sliced his heart in half .

P. S. I changed my rig around a bit this year largly in part to Straightarrow's "heavy arrow high foc " theroy , and Im shooting better than ever , my bows quiet , and I got a complete passthrough on an 800 pound elk , shooting 28 inches and 62 pounds , g5 striker broadheads , they will cut you if you just look at them . Bull green scored 350