Bad Morning/GOOD NIGHT!!!
 

Well, this morning I was sitting behind a haybale waiting for a doe to emerge from the woods to feed, when I heard something small walking in the corn field not 3 feet away. Hoping it was just a coon I turned and saw, what else but a SKUNK. Ran around the other side of the haybale and he came out right where I was sitting. Put the 10 yard pin on him and let fly. He did manage to make a nice spray of his perfume before he died and got my backpack and everything in it.

At about five this afternoon I went out and hoped I would at least see something. At about 7 oclock when I was walking out past the corn field I heard a deer running through the corn at full tilt. It came out about 10 yds. away and ran with its rearend to me for about another 10 and I grunted to stop it, and possibly turn it around. It turned broadside at 20 yds. and I let fly. Knowing I hit it, I marked where it was standing and where it went into the woods. I called my mom to bring the truck and we tracked it for only 30-40 yds. where it lay dead. When I put the flashlight on its head, I saw it was a button buck.

This was my first season hunting and my first deer, but I still felt kinda bad that it was a button buck.

Anyways, I felt better that it only went 40 yds. and the arrow was a complete passthrough. And the meat we do get will be good eating.

CJW

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Congradulations!!! The First Deer always feels good, and hey, you can call it a Buck!!! CONGRATS again!!!!!! :D

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Congrates on the deer

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Congrats on your first, do not worry about it being a button, that will happen on occasion, heck I shot a dink 4 point that due to branches I thought was a doe a few years ago, it was buck or doe and I needed meat for the freezer. I will admit though that he would have walked if I had known he was a little 4 point.

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Been there...done that. I feel that any deer taken with a bow is a trophy. It' s meat in the freezer. Congrats

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Not to get confrontational here...but why kill the skunk? Did you use it' s meat? Maybe in your state or province, they' re considered varmint/nuisances and can be killed...I don' t know. I just think if somebody kills an animal....it should be used as dinner, that' s all.

Btw, congrats on you deer.

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Don' t worry about the buttons, congrats on your first deer. It happens to us all at one time or another. Sometimes it just happens so fast that you can' t tell.

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Congrats on your deer! I' m sure it' ll be the first of many!![8D]

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Congrats on your first bow kill. Some times those buttons are hard to see in the heat of the moment.

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Congrats on the first deer, to bad on the skunk :D