***Official Live From the Stand Thread 2021

Alright sorry I was drinking beer with the landowners.

Shot her at like 1825, 30 yds in the cornfield… she was the biggest very large doe.

She buckled when I hit her, ran 60 yds into the field and fell over. The rest of the does rallied around her and she caught a second wind ran another 100 yds. Blood was pumping the whole time.

Damn near cut her heart in half. Through heart out the opposite front leg.


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Love that!!


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The pain was worth it. Great shot.

Thanks for drawing, and posting, blood.

I'll need to see more in the morning fellas...and OND!

 

Hope all is well, shadow!!


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Congrats, Finny!


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Saw a couple running in circles on the other side of the creek.
Heading out to another farm tomorrow morning.


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Good looking Doe, Congrats!

 

Glad you found her.
Looks like a "stand buster"

 

Congrats Finny!!

 

Congrats


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Congrats on a great doe

 

Yessss! Congrats

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Boom


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Well i got way behind on here. Trying to get caught up. 50 pages i think ill just say congrats to all that killed. Now ive hunted a few days seen one spike. Got my saddle on public where is shot my buck last year. Also got my mounts back 2019 pack mount and last years. My 3 year old said dad i need my deer in my room.

 

O and be out on public tom evening and saturday morning.

 

Nice mount Bull.

 

Nice Doe, Congrats!

 

Story, finally.
Shot at 8:40 am, looked pretty good to my eyes, perhaps a little forward, but when he only ran about 40 yards, stopped and I heard very labored breathing and a noise that sounded like a crash, I got really excited and started celebrating even though I didn't have visual confirmation of a downed animal. After about 45 minutes, I got out of the stand and started looking for blood. I found only two small drops near the impact site and no more. At that point, I went directly to the last "known" location, where I was hearing the heavy breathing and the supposed collapse. Being talller/thick grass, i grid searched the immediate surroundings for about an hour, both looking for blood and looking for the body. I found no more blood, no arrow, and no dead deer.

After that, I started calling the various trackers in Minnesota, one was already booked, one was on a business trip, but suggested a guy in my home town to call who is just getting started but had a number successful tracks this year. When Trenton arrived on the scene, the dog, a rat terrier, got on the scent immediately and we started following his nose. About 100 yards later we started finding frothy/bubbly blood suggesting a single lung hit, which corresponded to what I thought of my shot. About 75 yards after that blood, I hear Trenton call out, "we've got a live deer" and he took off running towards it. The buck is struggling to run and Trenton almost catches him, but it escape his grasp and runs into some thicker cover.

Now we both were kind of perplexed as to the proper approach, the coyotes in our area are pretty quick to get on dead game, so we didn't want to wait overnight, he got on the phone with a couple guys from the tracking network to ask some questions and it was decided to push the deer to exhaustion, tackle it and put a knife in it. I called my dad, he called his son and we were back on it an hour later. Trenton and I pushed through the slough in knee to waist deep water with his son on one side and my dad on the other waiting for it to exit. Thankfully, after pushing it several times, it simply gave up and we got a knife into it and ended the nearly 8 hour saga. Trenton and I were both soaking wet in 40 degree weather, but smiling from ear to ear!

I found the noc end of my arrow, about 4 inches, in the chest cavity while butchering it today, but still don't know where the rest of it is and likely won't ever find it. How it didn't come out while gutting it is anyone's guess.

My first buck with a bow and a story for a lifetime. Hopefully never to be repeated! But a great outcome nonetheless.

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Excellent!

 

What a story!