Team 13 **Tall Tines & Naughty Pines**

Looks like some points on the ground

 

Congrats jrk!!

 

Thanks man

 

Congrats jrk! Cant wait to see the video.

 

Ha ha well I'll haveta get back to you guys on the video. Right now still got deer coming out into field.

 

Time to drop a buck now jrk!

 

Way to go, jrk!

To bad you are on a sucky team :p

 

4 deer on the ground already Tony, suck it :p

 

Man I don't know how I managed to overlook the entry lol. I'd be thrilled for one close to 137"!

 

Well guys here's the story.

Didn't get set up and out to the stand until late so wasn't really expecting much. The whole process was rushed so I had a feeling I forgot something all afternoon. We've had pretty rainy weather and the temp was steadily dropping but overall it was good weather to be in the stand. Huge change from last year when it was close to 90 degrees out opening week. This was also the first time I had my camera setup with me and it took a little longer than expected but finally got everything set and felt somewhat comfortable with it.

First two hours of the hunt pass and nothing has showed up then look off to my left and see a mature doe feeding along the edge of bean feild. Swing the camera over and get her in frame and range her. 100 yards and not looking to get any closer. She stays out in field few more minutes then slips back into the draw. All I can think to myself is how many deer I've watched walk off the field and if I had stand where I originally wanted to put it it would a been a chip shot. But that's another story, involving a few choice words and a chain saw getting thrown across ditch. Anyway I keep scanning the field since it's now approaching 6 and means there's only a hour left of light. Keeping my focus on where the doe walked off the field I turn my head to the surprise that there is two doe 15 yards from base of my tree.

This is where it gets interesting. Being the first time with camera and wanting to get this on film I immediately go for it and swing it over and get then into frame. There's a branch blocking any shot so I slowly start to get situated and grab my bow. The smaller of the two does walks into my shooting lane and bounces around and all I can think is they're both gonna blow. The larger and I'm guessing mother continues to take it nice and slow stopping to feed occasionally and finally steps into the open. Now again this is first time with a setup that allows me to film while preparing for shot, last year only had camera, so I look down one last time and see if everything is in frame and not zoomed to far in. Looks good and she has stopped. Time for shot, clip release on slowly draw back and settle my 20 yard pin in. The arrow releases and I can follow the red nocturnal toward the deer and then loose where it hits. But the familiar sound of the smack is there and she turns and trots off about 30 yards. I immediately look down and swing camera over just in time to catch the doe start to sway back and fourth and finally tumble over. I am finally able to see the hit and from what can tell it looked good. She struggles around a little and finally lays her head down and stops moving. I'm thankful that she didn't suffer much and it looks to be a clean kill. So I sit down and swing camera to me and blurt out what I'm sure is rambling but and get to the part where I say she didn't go far and was gonna pan the camera back to show her laying in field and I realize it's out of focus so I just stop the recording and decide I'll do a reaction later and fix it in editing.

So I decide to redo my post shot reaction but after talking to someone on the phone and telling them I caught it all on film I wanted to check it out. I mean how could I be so lucky, this is second year in a row I've taken a doe on opening day or my first sit of the year. First trip out self filming and I just captured a kill shot on camera. Perfect right? Well as I go back to the footage I push play and then try to turn it down because don't want to make any noise. The scene stops and I think I must of accidentally hit the stop button. Play again, 10 seconds pass and same thing. Then it hits me. In all may excitement I forget the most important thing with a camera, hitting the record button. Instantly disappointment sets in and I can do nothing but laugh. I realize that I had the camera set on manual mode, which explains the lack of focus when I zoomed in on doe laying in field. When I hit the record button then thinking I stopped the scene I actually just started recording. And when I switched the camera from manual to auto settings that what stopped the recording and explained the 10 sec video.

Overall still a very good night and I'm happy with the outcome. Hopefully I got that mistake out of the way and the next one will all be recorded. So sorry fellas no video this time but it was still good experience using the new setup and I'm excited to get out and try it again.

 

Nice work, even with filming not cooperating with you today I'm sure she will taste great on the grill! Congrats!

 

Thanks buddy, honestly I'm not all that disappointed. I still go out with the main goal of hunting and harvesting a animal. The filming thing was just another challenge.

 

Nice, congrats...More points on the board...Just to let you southerners know, it's snowing here. That's the white stuff that usually falls from the sky in December. Minnesota, don't like the weather, wait a day, it'll change

 

Eventually I'd like to get into the filming, for now the goal is get my first deer with the bow....then a second....and a third....and so on down the years!

 

Ha ha that's crazy you guys are getting snow. We're getting down to 35 degrees tonight. Luckily the rain had stopped or we may of gotten a little dusting.

 

Weather says 44 overnight Saturday here, may actually have cooler weather for opening day on the 25th!!

 

Congrats Jrk!!!!!!!!! The same thing happened to me last year with my buck and self filming! You must have gotten the first self film kill curse from me!! We are on a roll guys!!!!!!

 

Oh well that sucks a little jrk! But congrats on the doe...that's what really counts.

 

Thanks guys. Yea I was kinda mad at myself when realized didn't hit record but what can ya do. Still glad was able to harvest a doe.

 

Here some pics of the entry wound on doe from last night. Entered there and came out the armpit on opposite shoulder. Needless to say it hit hard and she didn't last long. Didn't really look hard but noticed one of the lung had a huge cut in it where was almost cut in two.

Rage bh looks like it survived the hit. No broken or bent blades. Only thing missing is the o - ring which is a guarantee to not be reusable. Guess I'll continue using them ha ha.