Well I kind of have 2 stories in back to back years. This was back in 1990. I set up in early November about 2:30. I wasn’t in the stand for more then about 15 minutes and here comes a buck. He had points all over his head but the size really wasn’t that big. Just lots of little points. I have never seen anything like it since. He comes by trotting and I am following him with the site. Well he stopped about 15 yards out and I guess my bow just hadn’t caught up to him. I think I ended up gut shooting him.[:@] I never saw where my arrow went (remember this for the next story) so I do not know. Anyway I tracked him on to the neighbors property. I asked for permission to go look for him and was told “NO”.[:@] Well that got me upset so I called a buddy of mine who was in law enforcement. I told him to come out and tell this guy to let me go get my deer. He informed me that all he would be able to do is tell me that I couldn’t go on the property. I guess in WI, at least back then, you don’t have to let someone on your property even if they have a blood trail from property they have permission to be on. It is the right thing to do but the law is on the land owners side and if he says no then you are screwed.[]

Well I quit hunting for the rest of that year. Then the next year I have a nice (but not huge) 8 point about 15 yards out again. I take my time and to make sure I see where the arrow goes I figure I will drop the bow out of the way as soon as I fire. Yeah you know what happened. I buried that arrow at his feet. He just walked out of my life laughing at me.

After those 2 years I figured maybe I shouldn’t be bow hunting. My son was 3 and daughter was 1. My son wanted to go with me more so I started to hunt ducks and geese. Just got back to bow hunting 2 years ago. Can’t believe I ever quit. I sure won’t make that mistake again.