Adjam5 Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 There were a bunch of 1sts that happened with this hunt. Weds afternoon I get up to my deer camp in Sullivan county. I go out the next morning and freeze my cha chas off. It was 20 degrees I sat until 9am and went in. Didn't see a thing. I came back out at 2pm. At 5pm I hear rustling and 2 fawns come out to eat apples. 12 minutes later...2 mature doe step out and take the long way to the apple tree. I see them, I draw sitting down, searching with my lip for the kisser button through my mask... and I hold... waiting for them to get in my sight picture. They take the long way......15 yards...20 yards... they stop at 30 and start grooming themselves...I'm holding...I'm holding...One goes over to the fawns...I get a bead on the doe thats all alone. (I know she is a hair over 30 yards, I hit that spot with my rangefinder before... when I got set.) I settle my 30 yard pin on her chest...exhale, aim and let fly...She jumped the string a bit, but I hit her good and the arrow drove right up into her chest( she was slightly quartering while grooming) and she took off into the brush with the arrow buried to the fletch. I waited 20 minutes and it got dark on me. I came back the next morning with a neighbor. All I thought about was the coyotes in the area. We picked up the blood trail again the next moring, found my arrow and her intact. She ran uphill instead of left or right. Weird... This was a special deer to me and I have shot a bunch of doe with my bow... Why?... I consider a Sullivan county deer, as opposed to a Rockland county deer(where I live), to be a honest deer. They are less tolerant of human odor and intrusions. Know what it is like to be pursued by predators and really forage for a meal. Not have lush landscaping to hold them over in the harsh winter food periods and peoples yards to hide out in. This was the 1st time I ever had to leave a deer lay over night and recover it the next day...1st deer I killed in this stand also. AND... It was the longest shot I EVER killed anything with my bow. 33 yards. A big mature doe. There has been a lot of talk about Rage heads and the holes they make...Well take a look at the entrance Hole a 100gr Spitfire did. I'm sticking with my Spitfires:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Nice shot! Good job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookieee Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 great shot ,enjoy the back straps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Nice shot! I've killed a couple deer with both a Rage and a Spitfire. They both do pretty good! I had an exit hole on one of my deer I shot with a Spitfire that you could put your fist in. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendog Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Nice big doe, Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congratulations! Nice doe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Nice shot! Nice looking doe! CONGRATS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_lou Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congrats on a nice doe. Nice shot as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congratulations on the doe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Nice doe! Always special to get away from the norm and be successful... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatetomiss Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HONKERS44 Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congrats and thats a wound!!!! But i'll stick with my Muzzy's!!!Honkers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illinois59 Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congrats. Nice story and great shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleboy Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Congrats on the doe Anthony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie234 Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 nice looking doe, congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 very nice doe, and a good shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Nice shot and congrats! I know what ya mean about the deer being more "wild" Kinda the same here....aro8und home weh ave lots of farm fields aka corn and alfalfa, the deer go in early and come out late. But when we hunt with our neighbor at his cabin south of here, closer to PA, it's up in the hills and the deer go in later, come out earlier, and they are foraging more on acorns, wild apples, whatever, rather than all the corn and what not...the deer even taste different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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