Wisconsin opening day success!
09-13-2009, 04:37 AM
#15
Spike
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 23
He came down the trail at 6:15 and gave me a broadside shot at 10 yards. At the shot he bolted under my tree stand ran 20 yards to my right and stood behind a cedar tree, just looking around and trying to decide which way to go. The way he acted I was convinced that I had missed him. He eventually wandered off (I couldn't see him because of the brush). I glassed my arrow and the ground and didn't see any blood. I was really bummed out figuring that I had missed. Through out the next 3 hours I would glass the ground occasionally and at 9:30 I saw a drop of blood. I climbed down got my gear together and checked out my arrow. The arrow had blood on in and a fletching missing. I tracked him with a very light blood trail 80 yards and found him. It looked like a good double lung hit, but I've never had a deer act so calm after being hit. I wonder if the fletching blocked the exit hole? I forgot to check while field dressing him.
