HuntingNet.com Forums - NEW RECORD DOE (pic)

Well, I had to get you guys to look one way or another. ;)

After 18 years of rifle/muzzleloader hunting, I finally got interested in bow hunting this year. As some of you know, my wife and I had a baby girl 7 months ago so between her birth and starting a new job one week just one week afterwards, I've been busier than I'd like to be. Over the summer I bought a used bow and practiced as much as I could, usually on Sunday afternoons. Bow season began almost two months ago, and due to my schedule I've been able to bow hunt only twice before today, so this was my third time bowhunting this year.
Long story short, I drove out to Western Maryland last night and got up at 5:00 this morning, giving myself just enough time to get cleaned up, get dressed, slurp down a cup of coffee and eat a piece of toast, and get in the stand by daybreak.
I heard a deer come walking toward me around 7:00 and just before she cleared the tree/bush at 15 yards, I drew my bow. As soon as she took another step, she looked at me, realizing that there was something in my tree that isn't normally there. She was quartering toward me and although I knew that this wasn't an ideal shot, I was comfortable with it and I had confidence that I'd kill her. I squeezed the release and "THUNK". I hit her high in her front right and it exited in front of her left hip. She dropped quicker than any deer I've shot with a rifle. Unreal... The last time I've gotten that excited over killing a doe was when I was 11 years old!

Oh, by the way, it WAS a record doe- I wasn't lying... It was the first one I've ever killed with a bow. [8D] (It was the first deer I've killed with a bow, for that matter).