I bought 40 acres in the last week of november last year. I finally got a deer on it! We saw 18 this weekend (and one bear), but couldn't close the deal.

I got to the stand at 6 tonight. At 7 she came walking my way and turned right on to my atv trail. when she got into my second shooting lane I meeped and released.I hit her a little high but the rage 3 blade (i know, marketing, marketing, marketing...) did some serious damage and she only went about 100 yards.

I'm glad she didn't go far because we had a real long track on saturday morning. My buddy hit a doe and we never found it. turns out, it was THIS DOE! He nicked it with one blade in the neck (the deer was quartering away pretty heavily - hisshot wasn't as far as you'd think from the vitals). He's a great shot, and can put deer on the ground better then anyone I know - so please, no grief.He also practices about 3-4 times a week. I can't keep up with him! Just glad I could clean up his mess

Anyway, for those of you that are in to these types of shots here's a couple (sorry, no good pics. I didn't grab my camera)

entrance wound:
http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x158/rackluster/2007%20Doe%209-18/?action=view&current=P1010536.jpg

neck wound from Saturday:
http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x158/rackluster/2007%20Doe%209-18/?action=view&current=P1010538.jpg

It's also real rewarding for me because my season is going to be pretty messed up. I'm having surgery in a couple weeks (on my stinking birthday) and then I have to work the best two weekends of the year and I'll miss a lottery archery hunt that I got drawn for (I shot my best archery buck there).

Time to hit the hay...