It seems to have been a pretty slow year so far. I killed a doe in opening day but since then I just wasn't seeing much. I went to Ohio for a few days and saw nothing but forkies. Saturday morning I sat in one of my favorite stands and didn't see a single deer. So Saturday evening I decided to switch things up a bit and sit on the ground near one of my camera sites where I get alot of late day pics. I went in about 4 pm and made sure I had a couple of lanes I could shoot through. About 6 pm I saw a dear moving on the opposite side of the fence. I had been standing so as to have a better view. I immediately sat down and got the crossbow ready. He jumped the fence and I thought he was going to my left where I had a lane cut. He instead walked towards the camera but thay was ok because I also had a lane there. I got ready for when he stepped into the open but he didn't stop. Instead he stopped beyond that. I quickly looked and there seemed to be a little opening. I touched off the trigger and I could see the arrow sticking out, in front of the shoulder. Turns out I grazed a little sapling I didn't see, causing the arrow to veer off a bit. To make a long story short, I tracked for nearly 3 hours and more than a mile. We finally found him in the thickest nastiest cover there was. It was a long track but we never lost blood and I recovered my arrow about the one mile mark. All in all it was an exhausting night for am old man. Not the biggest deer in the woods but a trophy to me. Here's some pics from his bad night. This is the last pics before he was shot. And then after he got a ride on my truck. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
Congrats again, awesome that it worked out the way it did. Your follow up post in the Live from Stand thread was a bit iffy.
Awesome! Way to change things up and stay persistent and to stay with the track job! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yes, I should be coming over there next week to stay for about 10 days. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
Believe me it was iffy for a while to me too. It was definitely the hardest and weirdest track job I've ever done. The deer kept changing directions and going places a healthy deer wouldn't go. For a while I thought, from the way it was acting, it might be being chased by yotes. I found him underneath a blown down tree behind some fallen logs. Almost as if he was hiding. It took three hours but I did find him. Weird part about it was, we never lost the blood trail. We just had to be persistent. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
