WV Bow season is finally here...doe down!
10-16-2010, 07:52 AM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middelway, WV
Posts: 435
WV Bow season is finally here...doe down!
An opening day doe...I can not complain. It was a nice sit this morning, temperature was fall like, wind was not bad, and the leaves on the forest floor were dry and loud.
She came by me at 7:30 AM, and presented me an 8 yard, steep angle, slightly quartering away shot. I hit about 1/2 inch to high and to the front of where I was aiming.
The arrow plowed through the top of the shoulder blade, nicked the underside of the spinal cord, and powered through the left lung. She dropped in her tracks.
I was impressed with the G5 Montec. It pushed its way all the way through the deer even after contacting the shoulder blade, ending up with the arrow still in the deer but the broadhead 5 inches out the other side.
Now I can concentrate on a nice buck:-)
She came by me at 7:30 AM, and presented me an 8 yard, steep angle, slightly quartering away shot. I hit about 1/2 inch to high and to the front of where I was aiming.
The arrow plowed through the top of the shoulder blade, nicked the underside of the spinal cord, and powered through the left lung. She dropped in her tracks.
I was impressed with the G5 Montec. It pushed its way all the way through the deer even after contacting the shoulder blade, ending up with the arrow still in the deer but the broadhead 5 inches out the other side.
Now I can concentrate on a nice buck:-)
10-16-2010, 08:04 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Horseheads NY
Posts: 1,138
WTG!!!!!! Congrats on your opening day harvest...Enjoy a back strap BBQ tonight man... I had 3 does come in at 7:30 also, but they where in some tree's and I just couldn't get a shot. To many branches in the way. Its very windy here today. Made for a tough hunt this morning...
10-16-2010, 11:54 AM
#4
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middelway, WV
Posts: 435
Here in the eastern panhandle we have lots of deer, maybe not many trophies, but lots of deer (and this is only 3 years after blue tongue decimated the herd in my area).
10-18-2010, 02:19 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Southwestern, Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,059
Not criticizing him at all. I just think in West Virginia the DNR is more about selling extra tags and permits and the money than they are about managing the deer herd. I hunt WV and PA and in PA there is an antler restriction, and in WV you can legally take around 12 deer with extra stamps. That is entirely too many deer to be taken and still be able to manage the deer herd there. On the other hand, Pennsylvania's regulations are not perfect. In PA if you kill a legal buck during archery season you are done and not allowed to take a buck during rifle season. Like I said before, I'm not criticizing at all. Enjoy your deer.
10-18-2010, 02:22 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Central Pennsylvania
Posts: 2,313
Not criticizing him at all. I just think in West Virginia the DNR is more about selling extra tags and permits and the money than they are about managing the deer herd. I hunt WV and PA and in PA there is an antler restriction, and in WV you can legally take around 12 deer with extra stamps. That is entirely too many deer to be taken and still be able to manage the deer herd there. On the other hand, Pennsylvania's regulations are not perfect. In PA if you kill a legal buck during archery season you are done and not allowed to take a buck during rifle season. Like I said before, I'm not criticizing at all. Enjoy your deer.
last season in PA I saw 3 deer on around 25 hunts. Soooooo its kinda hard to say to anyone that their state sucks.
Just sayin
Ryan.
I guess I should have read more before I posted that
Anyhow yeah, where I hunt in PA Sucks real bad. S.W. PA still has a good heard cause of Pitt being there.
Ryan.
Last edited by my7pointmonster; 10-18-2010 at 02:30 PM.