tonights bowkill after long night of tracking
 

Little bit of ground shrinkage but a good ending to a very long evening of tracking/searching. Hope the picture works(first post from a cell phone)

Congrats great job

Nice good job

How far did he go?Great job.

So happy for you rockport.

Awesome deer!

Thats a good buck

thanks guys.

He only went about 200 yards give or take but I shot him quartering and caught some gut on the exit. Some intestine came through the hole and plugged him up. Not one drop of blood past 30 yards so it was hours of walking up and down a deep hollow. My buddy found him at about midnight.

It was stressful. I had the pass through at about 7 yards and I just couldn't believe he wasn't bleeding but it was obvious why when we found him.

Funny story. He ran right under me after I shot him and when I got down I noticed the ground was all wet under my stand. I started to reach out to put my finger in it and smell it and I remembered I took a pee right before I came down. I was about a split second from sniffing around in my own pee.

Wow that is some tough tracking, especially in the dark. Good work!

I had some great help. I even had a guy get out of bed about midnight when we found him to come help drag him up out of the very bottom of the hollow......and he had to get up at 4AM to go duck hunting.

Good friends are a very valuable asset I reckon.

First I just want to say congrats on a great looking buck.And i got to tell ya ROCK,I'll take that kind of ground shrinkage ever year i hunt great buck .

Oh, I'm not complaining. He just looked bigger on his feet more so than usual.

better picture

Just a splendid buck rockport...do I see it dressed for the taxidermist or is that some serious ground shrinkage?!

...and what a little doll you have for an assistant~

Thanks she has been putting the pressure on me all season. Every time I get home from hunting its "daddy how come you didn't catch a deer", I'm just gonna do a European mount with this one but he had a nice cape so I caped him out and saved it.

Nothing wrong with that! Good job on the track :D

Way to go staying after him and putting in the time. Glad this didnt turn into another story of sticking one and not finding him.

Way to go! Nice buck

Good looking deer, congratulations!

Thanks

European mount almost done.

Looks great but holy smokes that one would have been a full mount hanging on my wall!

I assume you already have one or two of those.

Yeah, I have 6

I just got these 2 back a few months ago

and


I have one more that is bigger than the new one and 2 that are smaller but they are my first buck and my first bow buck.

Nice deer..

Rockport, what state do you hunt? Great looking bucks!

That has got to be very satisfying.

Congratulations :)

Congrats! Happy you found him.

Thanks I'M in Illinois. I shot a reel good deer yesterday morrning 170ish with an 8 inch drop tine. I will have pictutes up soon

Good job on your buck.

Very nice buck and great job of tracking by you and your buddy.

Your comment about the gut plugging the exit hole and blocking leakage is one for folks that do not have a lot of hunting experience should try to remember. This is not unusual for a "quartering towards" shot, especially an archery shot made from an elevated position, such as tree stand.

It doesn't take much of a quarter either. The angle seems to always be more than I thought.