RE: 29 - Official Team Reverse the Curse Thread
Guys, I blew it!! I haven't posted anything lately because I feel like an idiot!
Saturday I finally got out to the farm that I got permission to hunt. I set up my buck decoy about 5:30am and got my place in the tree line,sitting on the ground. About 6:30am I did a little rattling. At 7:00 i have a little 8pt come in and start to circle the decoy I grunted and ran him off, as I had no intention of shooting him. As soon as he was out of sight I rattled again, 10min later I see another buck a HUGE 8pt. he comes straight at me and I can't move. He get to about 15yds from me and turned broadside to my decoy I started to draw and he saw me move.
He stared at me for probably 30sec and then started to run. I came to full draw and he stoped at 40yds broadside looking back to see what I was, I released and watched as my arrow flew just below his chest!!
Guys he was at least a 135"-145" , he had a lot of mass all the way out to the tip of his rack.
Monday I hunted all day saw a lot of deer and about 2:30pm I rattled in a nice 9pt about 120"-125" just a gorgeous rack. He came into the decoys didn't like what he saw and started walking off. He went through a lane at 40yds I release and watch the arrow go just below his chest!!
I hunted all day saturday and monday, I saw a total of 16 bucks and about 40 doe. The deer were running like crazy around this pasture and hayfield.
I spent some time at the range today to figure out my problem, which is I just used the wrong pin. I normally don't hunt where I have a 40yd shot, but I was hunting the edge of this pasture/woods and could see for 250yds. I'll be ready for the next one.
I'll be out Wednesday afternoon and all day thursday so hopefully I can get one for the team. Sorry!