Coyotes are back. Terrible timing. Saw 2 of them today and had one button buck running all over the swamp. Deer blowing and running 150yds away 5 minutes before I had to get down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I didn’t see any deer but I heard them down in the thick valley most of the sit. It’s just a matter of time before one of those bucks comes up that point again to hit the scrapes. I’ll sit there until he wind is just totally wrong, I get bored with the spot or I kill a buck. I won’t shoot does there in the evening and I’m not sure I want to shoot one there at all. Any deer that’s shot is going to pile off the bluff into that thick valley and recovery is going to be a nightmare.
I had the same thing happen 20 mins before dark tonight. A doe with a yearling fed just 10yrds from me for about ten mins, then minutes later another mature doe joined them. I was thinking "where's the buck"? Yesterday I saw two mature doe feeding in the leaves, again well within bow range, and I'm wondering where the buck is? Are these doe already bred, or they still a while from being in estrus? I've seen one buck, my target 8pt, tending a doe and have gotten one on cam chasing a doe, that's it so far. I'll sit from 10:00am (Doc app.) until dark tomorrow and another all day sit for Saturday. I do have to mention, I have seen at least one deer every day for the last 7 days straight, for my area that's not bad at all. That includes 5 different bucks, two of which were legal bucks. I'm only after one specific buck, or nothing!
had a great sit tonight, covered in does and had 3 small bucks (possibly one was a repeat) pushing them around off and on, then 15 minutes before dark had a slammer typical 8 point come in from behind me, I turned toward the side I heard him on but he was already passing behind, then by the time I got turned back around to the other side of the tree he was already at 45-50 in thick stuff and walking on an angle away. I let him drop down into a little dip, he grunted, I grunted hard at him, but he was locked in on a doe and pushed her and a little buck back up the rise and out of my life. Even if I had turned right, I don't think he was ever closer than 40 anyway and no idea if I would have gotten him stopped in a clear lane. good luck tomorrow @virginiashadow
I saw that small buck around 5. 530ish my youngest repeatedly called me so I knew something was up. She had been in her first car accident. Like 50 bucks of damage but she was really upset. I have a new phone so my usaa app wasn't auto set and I had to fiddle with that for a long time. Handle the accident and then start feeling guilty I wasn't home to help her. About 10min later I look down and here he comes right up thr very slight drainage. He comes by broadside at 18 yds. I had to stop him. Release and it hits. He takes off and I see like a foot of arrow sticking out and when he ran the arrow wasn't moving at all, like lodged in bone. He ran over the creat of hill and down into a valley. 15 min later the sun dropped. Its so dark out there I couldn't see crap so I backed out. If I find him tomorrow I know I probably hit him different but it looked like right here..I was prob 14 feet above him...
Man, wish we were in St. Louis for hockey this weekend I’d be out helping ya! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Thanks. Yeah, he is the biggest buck I have ever actually seen while hunting in Pa. I had him well within range at 20yrds, just no clear shot. He's actually more impressive in person than in the pics/videos I've gotten of him. I'm still shaking my head, 5 days later.
How long are your arrows? If that's where you hit him and he was broadside, the only thing I'd be worried about is vertabrae. Wouldn't think it would lodge in a rib, but anything ia possible I've learned. Front to back that is more lung than anything, I've hit 3 back that far, pass throughs, and actually prefer closer to that spot than tucked in the crease. A lot of people like to aim for the orange, but I prefer the watermelon. I just don't know that you can lodge a head in the spine and not drop him, at least momentarily. That's a lot of shock trauma on impact, but I know old broadheads have been found during butchering as well. Hopefully he was a little quartered away or spun a bit to catch offside shoulder. A foot of arrow hanging out is a lot more penetration than vertebrae would have. Did you look for blood at all?
Just a pic of where I thought it hit. Almost wish I never shot now. Last year has me all whacked out. Lol
I think you'll find him tomorrow, no void below the spine and doubt you hit above, a shot through the straps is usually always a pass through. I've only spine shot one deer and aside from the instant drop, it was very obvious it hit solid matter. You also have the main artery that leads to the femoral The first buck I hit there, he ran an arcing loop probably 40 yds total with spray, second and 3rd about 60, but had gushers on impact.
