ek_buckmaster

Well this will be my first sleepless night (after the shot that is). At about 430 I shot at an 8 point at about 25 yards away and im not sure where exactly I hit it. What had happened was this buck walked out right under my stand and walked directly away from me, well as he was walking away I drew my bow. After I got to full draw he decided to face away from me and feed. After holding my bow for at least a good 1 1/2 minutes my fingers and arms were cramping up and going numb. Finally the buck begins to turn and then it happens. When I went to put my finger on the release trigger I accidently pulled it prematurely (bc my fingers were numb from holding it back so long) when the buck was just turning. I got down at about 6 and found that I had very little blood on the arrow, but had a blood trail. I decided to back out after following the trail for a lil ways and go back tomorrow morning. The blood trail looks decent for a little ways but then it goes to little drops and then back to pools and spraying blood and then back to pin head size specs.

Jeffro_17

I think that you made a wise move to back out in that situation. Maybe you had a good enough hit to clip some vitals or just bleed out. Anyway, I hope that you can find him in the morning.

moducks38

Good call on backing out. What kind of blood was it? Did you find your arrow?

sea_bee77

i would say you have a good chance at finding your buck. a quartering away shot is the best in my opinion. ive never had problems finding a deer with this shot. just killed an eleven pointer this past sat with this shot. deer walked right under my stand and i let him pass so i could get a quartering away shot. i was a little worried myself because i didnt let him walk away far enough. arrow didnt look like it had enough angle to it but we had no problem finding buck he only went 60 yrds.

ek_buckmaster

I must say I have to be the luckiest person in the world. I found my buck today and I am still in shock. Since I accidentally pulled the trigger too soon i shot a lot lower than i had thought. I ended up hitting him in the upper part of the leg, cutting about a 4inch gash through his leg. Im assuming i severed his main artery and several other blood vessels. Had to track him across a couple 40's until we walked up on him, he was still alive at the time but one final arrow took care of that. Im still upset about my shot but thankfully it is all over now.

7.62NATO

Excellent! Good recovery, and nice buck. Thanks for posting a REAL hunting story. As stated in another thread by another member, things in the field can't be perfect, and crap happens. It took guts to post this, I think, because you know there gonna be picture perfect hunters thumbing their noses at you while they read. Some might even post!

ek_buckmaster

Thanks!!! And I'm ready to take the heat for that but like I stated before, I didn't mean to pull the trigger is was a mistake that I made and am very fortunate that I was able to recover him.

stabnslab_WI

Congrats on your buck, cool story and Im glad you didn't give up.

bowhuntn87

nice buck! good job on not giving up on the deer as well!

blackhawk_archery

Thats a good buck lot of reports of bucks being spotted im out this evening.