Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

I actually did it...

Discussion in 'Bowhunting Talk' started by PinkPony, Nov 4, 2024 at 8:27 AM.

  1. PinkPony

    PinkPony Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Jun 4, 2014
    Posts:
    3,182
    Likes Received:
    1,262
    Dislikes Received:
    0
    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Many of you followed me through the contest for years. I was always "no point Kristen" (though I did get one doe). This weekend I FINALLY, after 10ish years, lined everything up and got a buck with a bow!

    A few weeks ago I missed one by hitting a tree branch and sent my arrow directly into the dirt (and the buck stared at me and laughed).

    Saturday I got a babysitter early, took my shower and ventured to my stand shortly before 4. 20 minutes later a spike came through. I could hear the deer all around and could see them running across the creek. About 545 I hear crashing through the corn stalks (I'm hunting a corner of a field - standing corn, triangle of woods and a creek). I'm watching the field and see a flicker of brown. I watch and it nears the edge and pops out - spike. But I still hear crashing and see the stalks move and then brown. Out pops a buck. He literally stepped out of corn and stopped. Broadside. 20 yards. Just like the damn target I've been shooting for years. I get my pin settled and shoot - he mule kicks and runs. I hear crashing in the corn as he rounded the edge of field and looped back in then sounded like a crash. I text my husband- no response. So I sit...and I sit. Knock another arrow, guess I'll go for my doe. Eventually see, I believe the same spike as before, and then the deer start moving all around again. Of course only doe in range was a tiny thing that I let pass. I wait until dark15 and go to get down and I hear the tractor coming. I try and call husband again no answer. I didn't want him coming the way he did, but he didn't have his phone. He comes to pick me up and I'm like I shot a buck - I didn't look for my arrow yet. So he said let's go to the house and get lights....mind you it's been almost an hour and a half now. I'm impatient but to house we go.

    Go back out, find arrow at sight of impact coated in blood. Only found few drips of blood though. Follow it into corn and lose blood. Corn is so dry we assumed it was absorbing it.

    Back out call a friend and we go back out. This time we walked in from other side and friend is looking, blood blood blood all on the path. Weird. He did a loop in corn and ran back out. Straight down the path and into the other side of woods. Friend shines his flashlight and he's like there's a deer....at this point I'm thinking a live deer. He said it again. So I look...we walk up and its my buck. Stiffer than a board.

    Upon gutting him I made a direct middle of the heart shot and the top of one lung.

    He is surely not the "target" bucks we have and ground shrinkage is real to someone who has never actually shot a buck close up - but I'll take it!

    20241102_212137.jpg IMG_4698.jpg
     
    MnHunterr, MUDSHARK, JeffC and 24 others like this.
  2. Westfinger

    Westfinger Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2014
    Posts:
    3,835
    Likes Received:
    9,600
    Dislikes Received:
    5
    Location:
    Ohio
    Congrats, that’s a nice buck. Well deserved.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  3. pastorjim08

    pastorjim08 Legendary Woodsman

    Joined:
    May 1, 2009
    Posts:
    12,355
    Likes Received:
    15,479
    Dislikes Received:
    13
    Location:
    Indiana
    That's really awesome. Congrats to you!!

    Sent from my SM-N975U1 using Tapatalk
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  4. Fix

    Fix Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Apr 27, 2016
    Posts:
    9,089
    Likes Received:
    12,334
    Dislikes Received:
    35
    Location:
    Western NY
    Congrats

    Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  5. ash d

    ash d Die Hard Bowhunter

    Joined:
    Jun 18, 2016
    Posts:
    2,943
    Likes Received:
    8,958
    Dislikes Received:
    6
    Location:
    Upstate NY
    Nice one.
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  6. cantexian

    cantexian Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Nov 11, 2013
    Posts:
    9,995
    Likes Received:
    20,175
    Dislikes Received:
    13
    Congrats!
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  7. Sota

    Sota Legendary Woodsman

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2014
    Posts:
    31,763
    Likes Received:
    22,122
    Dislikes Received:
    127
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Congrats way to stick with it.
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  8. Ridgerunner3

    Ridgerunner3 Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Oct 7, 2016
    Posts:
    6,844
    Likes Received:
    18,571
    Dislikes Received:
    17
    Location:
    Somewhere in NC.
    Tenacity. Congrats!
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  9. arrowflinger1

    arrowflinger1 Die Hard Bowhunter

    Joined:
    Dec 31, 2011
    Posts:
    2,623
    Likes Received:
    7,281
    Dislikes Received:
    5
    Location:
    MN
    Congrats! Nice buck
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  10. Mod-it

    Mod-it Die Hard Bowhunter

    Joined:
    Mar 28, 2019
    Posts:
    1,910
    Likes Received:
    3,568
    Dislikes Received:
    4
    Location:
    Idaho
    Congrats, that's awesome!
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  11. Shocker99

    Shocker99 Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Aug 18, 2015
    Posts:
    7,622
    Likes Received:
    15,516
    Dislikes Received:
    16
    Location:
    Southwest Illinois
    So glad to hear this! It was not for lack of effort. Sometimes its just bad luck when the stars dont align. Congrats on a hard earned, well deserved, handsome buck.
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  12. 0317

    0317 Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Apr 14, 2020
    Posts:
    4,355
    Likes Received:
    2,849
    Dislikes Received:
    25
    Location:
    Midwest
    Congrats ........
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  13. Tony

    Tony Legendary Woodsman

    Joined:
    Jul 25, 2008
    Posts:
    16,741
    Likes Received:
    11,379
    Dislikes Received:
    12
    Location:
    Wales, New York
    PinkPony likes this.
  14. oldnotdead

    oldnotdead Legendary Woodsman

    Joined:
    Feb 13, 2019
    Posts:
    11,001
    Likes Received:
    16,468
    Dislikes Received:
    25
    CONGRATULATIONS! on a mighty fine buck and great hunt
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  15. Bone Head Hunter

    Bone Head Hunter Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Aug 6, 2012
    Posts:
    4,534
    Likes Received:
    8,210
    Dislikes Received:
    8
    Location:
    Southern Indiana
    Congrats!

    Working hard and staying persistent pays off. Good on you!
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  16. Holt

    Holt Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Dec 13, 2012
    Posts:
    8,259
    Likes Received:
    22,472
    Dislikes Received:
    20
    Location:
    MD
    All these years we have been following along, just hoping you get your shot on a buck. And now you just did it! Congratulations. Its something you will never forget.
     
    PinkPony and Bone Head Hunter like this.
  17. buckeyehntr5

    buckeyehntr5 Die Hard Bowhunter

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2010
    Posts:
    1,892
    Likes Received:
    985
    Dislikes Received:
    0
    Location:
    Ohio
    Congrats!
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  18. camo75

    camo75 Die Hard Bowhunter

    Joined:
    Jul 31, 2016
    Posts:
    2,488
    Likes Received:
    5,121
    Dislikes Received:
    4
    Location:
    Indiana
    Congrats!!
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  19. Suncrest08

    Suncrest08 Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2013
    Posts:
    4,738
    Likes Received:
    13,530
    Dislikes Received:
    2
    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Awesome congrats !
     
    PinkPony likes this.
  20. PinkPony

    PinkPony Grizzled Veteran

    Joined:
    Jun 4, 2014
    Posts:
    3,182
    Likes Received:
    1,262
    Dislikes Received:
    0
    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Thanks all! I laugh and say it's because I didn't sign up lol
     
    MUDSHARK and arrowflinger1 like this.

Share This Page