A Pennsylvania buck met a Rage broadhead today.... **UPDATED with PICS and story**

Thats right, a PA 6 point is down with 5 days left in season.... story and pics will come after I get cleaned up and get some food!!!

***UPDATE***

Okay guys, well the whole story starts this morning with the arrival of my new compact flash cards for my Reconyx. I headed over to pull my camera and noticed that I got another 57 photos over the past two days. I checked the camera and noticed that there were two small bucks (a half rack 2 point and a wide 3 point) that passed by my camera yesterday afternoon at 4:56 p.m. I have a stand roughly 35 yards from my camera and was thinking about actually trying to sit in stand this afternoon. I kept scrolling through the photos and found that a small 6 point had passed by the camera at 7:13 a.m. this morning. This is the only legal buck that I had on camera and I figured that I would give it a try this evening as it is the last day that I would be able to hunt since season ends on Saturday.



This evening I was running a little late and had to hurry to get my gear ready and head for stand. I was in such a hurry that I forgot to take a flash light, pen, knife, drag rope, ect. I threw my camo on, grabbed my release and bow and that was it.

I got set up in my stand at around 3:40 p.m. and realized that I didn't dress warm enough as the temps were dropping pretty quickly as there is a storm moving in tonight. I decided to stick it out even though I really didn't anticipate much. At around 4:20 p.m. I heard some loud crunching behind me and figured that it was the squirrel that had been barking at me just a few minutes before. I slowly turn and see a two point half rack walking down a shooting lane around 25 yards from me. When he got broadside to me he looked straight at me and I figured that I was busted. With all the leaves gone, I know that I had to have stuck out pretty bad. I stayed still and he just walked on by. A few minutes laters I hear more crunching and I see two more deer headed my way. I notice one is a small spike that I had seen nearly everytime I sat in stand and the other was another half rack that was just a main beam. He looked as though he may have been an 8 point but he got beat up pretty bad As I am watching them in amazement that I am actually seeing deer in late archery I catch movement and see my buck coming down the trail. I noticed that it was the buck that I had on camera from this morning so I turned in my stand and got ready for the shot. I couldn't stand up as any movement would have sent him on his way. When he passed behind a tree at 25 yards I drew my bow back sitting down and as he started out from behind the tree I gave him a little grunt. I must have been a little excited because I grunted too early and he stopped while still behind the tree. After about two minutes he took two more steps and I stopped him. I settled the pin right behind the shoulder and slowly squeezed the trigger just to hear the sound of my arrow smack off a branch. Luck was on my side as the arrow hit him squarely on a quartering away shot around mid-body. I watched him tear off and after a few seconds I heard silence. I came home and gave him an hour.

When I went back to where I shot him I could find any blood or my arrow. I searched for nearly 20 minutes without finding anything. At that point I noticed that the "small branch" on one of the small trees was actually my arrow covered in blood. He went around 15 yards without a single drop of blood. I started getting worried but carried on. After around 60 yards of almost non-exsistant blood he opened up and it was pouring out of him. I found him about 15 yards past that point piled up in a blow down.

I couldn't be more happy with this buck. It is my first late season deer and it is really cool to have a photo of him from this morning, not too mention I am out of venison and those backstraps are gonna be mighty tasty. I am going to do my own euro mount on him.

 

We're waaaiiiting!!!

 

Awesome! Can't wait to see it!

 

Alright! As soon as I saw the title I was figuring/hoping it was you. Scoring in the last season is as tough as it gets.

 

Now hurry up with those photos :d

 

SWEEEEEEEET!! Now get your a$$ off the couch and tell us about it!! Walt

 

Great story! Congrats again!

 

Congrats on the buck!

 

Congrats on the last minute success!

 

Way to stick with it man............big time congrats.



P.S.........He's your 2009 buck



Great job!!!!

 

Thanks guys, I am pumped, and to think that I wasn't even gonna go hunting today

Atlas, Thanks man, I really appreciate it. I guess he is technically my 2009 buck and if I play my cards right, I will have two 2009 bucks this season

 

Congrats! You actually motivated me to get back out tomorrow evening.

 

Nice, very nice... he oughta taste good for sure!

 

Matt, goodluck tomorrow... you never know what might happen. It seems as though the deer are starting to get out of their rifle season patterns and are moving around a bit more, I'm sure the weather helps that too.

 

Congrats! Does he have any fat on him?

 

Thanks Christine, he didn't have hardly any fat at all. All of the normal cornfields in the area were planted in soybeans this year and we had litteraly no acorns at all. After the soybeans were gone they were pretty much stuck to just browse and crab apples. Most of the deer in the area seem to be smaller bodied this year.

 

Way to go. Nice job getting it done in January

 

Nice job Buck!!! Congratulation's to you!!

 

nice!

 

That is awesome Jason...congrats man. I have about 7 days left for my late season.

Just curious...with a rage...why did you not have a blood trail? Did the head open all the way?