| solocamcan |
11-17-2009 07:58 PM |
Nov 17th IL Buck (public land)
This isnt the biggest deer in the woods, but I loved his browtines and his dark horns. I had been hunting a spot 200 yards from a hiking trail and seen 2 decent deer walk down it on previous sits, so tonight I decided to move my climber right on this hiking trail. At 2:30 I was really thinking about saying screw it because it started to downpour and 25 mph winds to go with it. After about 10 min. of that it started to let up so I stayed put, at 3pm I see a big doe come into the woods off of the powerline clearing, which is briars and saplings and tall grasses, she is heading in behind me, and yup, she winded me. She never blew, just jumped 3 times backs towards the power lines, then I see this guy trotting down the hiking trail looking for her. I put my 20 yard pin on him and hit my release....ut oh....my string caught my fleece face mask and caused my arrow to kick left really bad, I see my arrowm buried to the fletchings like a liver shot...Now I am worried because of the rain. I see the deer go down a hill into a creek bottom and he stops and his entire rear left leg is covered in blood....kinda strange for a liver shot. I wait 30 min. then decide to go mark the last spot I seen him, the last spot I seen him is where he fell over. Somehow, someway I took out his liver and that main artery in his rear leg, he bleed like no double lung deer Ive ever shot, it was amazing the blood trail that left...not recomended to hit them there though, just plain and simple got lucky tonight. He is a 8 pointer with pretty good mass and decent spread. To make it even sweeter, it was a year ago today that I took my biggest buck ever from this same public ground, so I named this guy The "Dejavu" Buck. |
