My first monster
10-10-2005, 01:59 PM
#27
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hoosier Country, Baby!
Posts: 1,710
RE: My first monster
What you doin' shootin' something like that, you just cost yourself an extra $500 bucks this season!! Just kidding, that is WELL worth the money it will take to put him on the wall, and I'm sure he will go great with potatos and corn too! 
BIG congrats to you!
BIG congrats to you!
10-10-2005, 01:59 PM
#28
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Posts: 65
RE: My first monster
Here the story behind the buck. I was hunting sunday evening over a scrape I stumbled upon a few days before. I hung my stand about 10 yards off the trail I thought the buck was running to the scrape. About 10 min in stand two button bucks come down the trail and start eating acorns around the scrape. As I was watching them they took off running directly under me and now were behind me about 20 yards. After watching them graze behind me I turned my head around and was watching in front of me. I hear a stick break directly to my left, I figured one of the button bucks was back but when I turned my head what I saw was amazing. The buck was in between 8-10 yards from my stand when I first saw him when I shot a couple seconds later I was practicaly shooting straight down. I hit both lungs missed the heart but he only ran about 60 yards. I shot him using my mathews featherlite. I was using the crimson talon broadheads which I will never use again. I had no blood trail at all from those. I only had a drop here and a drop there took me all night to recover that deer. Scared me a few times when the blood trail ran out and we struggled to pick it up. But in the end It was an unforgetable day. Does any one have any guesses on what he might score?
10-10-2005, 02:09 PM
#29
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: west central WI
Posts: 227
RE: My first monster
165 gross looks fairly close. I think the way you hit him may have caused the lack of blood. If you shot straight down I would think the wound would clot very quickly with fat and tissue which would slow or almost stop the bleeding. Might not be the broadhead's fault.
