Congrats on the doe Todd.

I shot another doe yesterday afternoon. My brother was nice enough to put me in one of his better spots. It is a funnel of woods about 50 yards wide between the back of a corn field, and a clover field. The cornfield is planted behind an apple orchard, and that funnel connects two large blocks of woods. I had deer around me from about 5:30pm till dark, which was right at 7pm. they were running through the corn and all along the edge of the field.

There is a small water filled ditch that runs along the inside edge of the woods on the cornfield side, and the doe came walking up that ditch about 6:50pm. She poped up out of the ditch and came towards the stand. The shot was about 7 yards, went in perfectly, came out on the bottom of the deer. The exit hole was plugged up, but the Thunderhead did the job and I found the deer 60 yards away.

This was almost identical to the shot I had earlier with the spitfire. The placement was the same, the angle was the same, the distance of the shot almost identical, and the exit hole was in the same place, and plugged the same way. There was almost no blood from the spitfire entrance wound. However, there was a very easy to follow blood trail from the thunderhead hit. Both entrance wounds were the same place on the body, but the spitfire hole was much smaller. I guess that's why the blood trail was better with the Thunderhead.

There are alot of deer in that area, and I'm sure that stand will be on fire during the rut.