I hunt in wakefield and half the land i hunt is sussex and the other half is southampton. I have bow hunted several times so far this year and everytime i hunt i have seen deer. Most the time its doe's or small buck, but in about 6-7 hunts i have seen 3 really nice bucks. Last saturday was opening day of blackpoweder but i hunted in southampton in a swamp and used my bow and shot a small 8pt at about 7:20am then at 8 i had a really really nice 8pt come right to me and shot him as well, but he ran off and left a great blood trail for about 250yds but it came to a haulting stop in some pines and lost him. I looked for 4hrs saturday and nothing. Went back sunday and looked for almost 3hrs and still nothing, Its like he just dissapeared in the mid-air. Was hoping to see some buzzards this week but the weather hasnt been ideal to find him. Hopefully i will come across him soon, would atleast like to get the rack now since nothing else is good. I'd like to see how nice he really was. Im planning on getting back out there this saturday and hunt all day with the powder gun and hope to see something chasing. I will have my decoy up to see if that will help me out any also.
Good luck to everyone and hope to see some success.