Yesterday I shot my best bow buck yet with the crossbow from the new steel tower stand.
Just before sunset I made a perfect broadside shot just behind the shoulder. I saw the arrow strike and knew I had a double lung hit.
After helping my neighbor recover his buck last Monday, I decided to wait a full hour to look for the buck even though I was sure it wouldn’t go far.
It was full dark when I went to look for it and all I had with me was a pen light. I found the trail easy enough and found blood right away. After about 75 yards the blood trail was heavy. Then it ended right were the trail crossed a shooting lane. I walked out the trail to the end and walked out the shooting lane to the end but couldn’t see the deer. So, I came back home with hopes of looking this morning.
Caleb came up on the hill just after I got there, I showed him where I had shot the buck and the deer track, and blood, and the end of the trail. He walked back a few steps and said, “Here it is”. The buck had back tracked 10 or 20 feet and jumped, climbed, crawled or teleported into the thickest tangle of brush and briars you have ever seen. Do you see the dead buck?
How about now? My camera hand is inserted halfway into the brush.
I must have walked right by it 6 or 8 times.
This photo shows that the buck couldn’t even fall down. He was suspended in mid fall by the brush. I had dragged out a few big pieces of brush to get to where I could take this photo.
His rack measured 16” on the inside spread. He was a 9 point but one tine is broken completely off making him an 8 point.
Many thanks to Caleb for his seeing the buck.
Oh, yesterday afternoon was the first time I used the new steel tower stand. Works great!
Dan
Just before sunset I made a perfect broadside shot just behind the shoulder. I saw the arrow strike and knew I had a double lung hit.
After helping my neighbor recover his buck last Monday, I decided to wait a full hour to look for the buck even though I was sure it wouldn’t go far.
It was full dark when I went to look for it and all I had with me was a pen light. I found the trail easy enough and found blood right away. After about 75 yards the blood trail was heavy. Then it ended right were the trail crossed a shooting lane. I walked out the trail to the end and walked out the shooting lane to the end but couldn’t see the deer. So, I came back home with hopes of looking this morning.
Caleb came up on the hill just after I got there, I showed him where I had shot the buck and the deer track, and blood, and the end of the trail. He walked back a few steps and said, “Here it is”. The buck had back tracked 10 or 20 feet and jumped, climbed, crawled or teleported into the thickest tangle of brush and briars you have ever seen. Do you see the dead buck?
How about now? My camera hand is inserted halfway into the brush.
I must have walked right by it 6 or 8 times.
This photo shows that the buck couldn’t even fall down. He was suspended in mid fall by the brush. I had dragged out a few big pieces of brush to get to where I could take this photo.
His rack measured 16” on the inside spread. He was a 9 point but one tine is broken completely off making him an 8 point.
Many thanks to Caleb for his seeing the buck.
Oh, yesterday afternoon was the first time I used the new steel tower stand. Works great!
Dan
