Finally Connected...A Buck Too!! (pics)

Nick · October 15, 2006

After starting off the season with 2 blown shots due to my stupidity, it finally came together tonight. It had been super cold, snowy, and windy the last 2 or 3 days. Today the temperature rose to about 40 but with still some 20mph wind gusts. Being that I only get to hunt 1 or 2 evenings a week, I bundled up and headed to one of my treestands. I got there around 5:30 and had the wind blowing right in my face. It was good except for a run that comes from my left and in front of me and angles off behind my stand about 25 yards. About 6pm I look left and see a fork horn headed down that run. He gets to my hard left and behind me and stops....He smells me and wheels around and heads back to the thick stuff. So I sit thereshivvering for another hour and out of nowhere theres a buck headed right to my tree from my left...Hes only 15 yards by the time I see him. I see he was young and had a funky rack so I was going to shoot him. I drew and he walked to 5 yards from the base of my tree and I do a grunt with my voice which spooked him......He trotted to 30 yards to my left and behind me and offered a clear broadside shot and I released. The arrow flew awesome...hit its mark with a complete pass through, he kicked his hind legs in the air and took off. I went and marked first blood and went to get my tracking crew. We made it back around 8:30 and there was a solid blood trail to where he lay about 70 yards away. He had 4 points on his right side and a spike on the left. After missing 2 easy shots at does, this was exactly what the doctor ordered!!!

Tom2008 · October 15, 2006