Soon as my kid gets home tonight I'll get some pics to post here. Good 2 B out bowhunting again. Man the trail blazed thru the fresh snow is unbelieveable! A frikin highway! I'll post detail later 2 nite. BOOYAH!
Okay, here goes my attempt at downloading pics from photo bucket here. javascript:void(0); javascript:void(0); javascript:void(0); Hopefully those pics worked, if not someone tell me again, how to get them on here. Any ways, sit back and enjoy the story. Weather: 17 degrees and sunny after an all night snow storm that dumped 4-6" of light snow. I get to the land I hunt at 3:15 with a new ladder stand. Pile every thing onto a sled & start walking to a tree I scouted out earlier this morning. Get the stand up & I'm sitting in it at 3:50. Just click on my arrow, and see a small doe to the East, about 40 yds & closing. Then it stops and starts acting all figety. It turns around and goes back the way it came on a trot. 5-10 min rolls by, & there's the doe hauling A#$ across a field I'm looking at, bout 100 yds away. No biggy, just keep looking around. About 4:40 I see movement to my right (west), I see its a good size doe. Now mind you I'm sitting on very beaten trail in the snow about 15 yds in front of me. Its coming towards me on that trail at a leisurely pace. I stand up, & draw. It stops about 18 yds away to my right, chest facing me, between two trees. I talk my self out of shooting it. Now the problem develops. I have a full knit face mask on, and it has moved on my head, so that I'm having a hard time seeing out of the eye piece thru the peep. But I can see the pin. I tell my self to relax this deer will come foward. Sure enough it walks 10' & now is perfectly broadside at 15 yds. WHACK. I don't even see the arrow hit. The deer takes off full bore towards the field I'm facing, makes a complete circle & heads right back towards me. Then darts off to where it came from. Then CRASH! I look at my watch, it's 4:50. I wait 10 minutes, get down & go to the truck. Now it's dark, so tracking is going to be challenge. I go to where my arrow was. I think, did I miss that deer as fast as it was running. Then, I spot my arrow, sticking out of the ground, red all over the shaft/fletching. Good sign and then see the pink splatter on the snow. I start tracking little bits of blood in the snow, following every step it made, & then finally come to find her piled up where I heard the crash. So I tag it, anterless. To my surprise, I flip it over to gut it and discover extra parts down thar! :huh: What tha?! I thought this was a good size down. I grab it's head & sure enough to bald spot where it antler's was were! Don't that figure as much, here's my buck, but no horns!!! :d All I can do is laugh. At least it'll get me a buck tag for next year. I thanked God for that deer. Now we're complete for meat for the rest of the year. I'm still going to go out for a buck b4 the next gun season on Dec. 24. But no more does!!!! If I don't see bone, I'm passing it up. Thanks for reading.
I'd say he was a 2yr old, weighed about 150-175 dressed. As for mass, not much, probably a 6ptr or very small 8. But I still have another week left, and plan on getting out a couple of more times with a bow, and 2 weeks of late gun coming up. But I'm only shooting what has antlers on it. It is a good feeling being able to tag one in Dec. w/a bow.
Well congrats Hank Thats something i have never had happen yet. I hate when they shed during the season. They can start the day after though :d
