Deer '20

A couple screenshots of him. Got up early this morning to go back but was foiled by dogs as usual. I knew I was in trouble when I stepped outside and could hear Gail’s son’s dogs barking on the other end of the property. Went to pen our dogs up and a couple were already gone. Went ahead and tried but yep, the dogs were over there. I should have penned them up last night.

(I took another easy route and copy and pasted this from another site that I posted this on) Took the "easy" road this year. My first time in the woods was last Thursday to get in a couple days of bow hunting before gun season started. Thursday morning there wasn't a lot of activity and had a small 3 point walk past about 20 yards. Called it about 10am and ventured back out shortly before 3pm. Got to one of our tripod stands and quickly remembered how much it sucked to bow hunt out of so I got back down and ventured to the other stand I was at that morning. Mind you this was a lot of walking in slightly warmer weather and I had on too much clothing for it. By the time I got to the stand I was a sweaty mess. Kind of a strong wind coming from the NE which was in my favor. Also felt good. Sometime after 4 I notice a buck walking on a cut through path that connects a couple fields. Grunted and he stops, looks and then continues on his path. Break out the fake horns and rattle. A couple minutes pass and he appears coming down a path we made in the woods. Start to grunt and he shows interest. Started to get a better look at him and pondered just giving him a pass. I did grunt a couple more times and he was very cautious but continued my direction. He gets to about 50 yards out and I start asking myself if I'm going to take the shot. Grunted one more time and he starts on a path that would put him 25-30 yards out. He walked behind a couple trees that abled me to draw the bow back and not get busted. He continued closer and eventually stopped at 25ish yards. He was quartering towards me and I placed my 20 pin a touch high in front of his left shoulder and sent it. Made a good "thwack" sound, a big kick from him and he took off. He eventually runs over a hill and I continue to listen and can hear what appeared to be him crashing. Called my brother in law who was off work heading home and he tells me to back out and come pick him up. His eta was 15 minutes to get home. After the shot maybe 45 minutes passed before going back to start tracking. I felt confident about the shot but you never know. I knew what direction he took off running and did not find any blood until 30 yards in. We found half my arrow that had broke off about 20 yards in; maybe less. The blood trail became easy to track and we found him just over that hill about 100-110 yards from where the shot happened. The shot was good as the arrow destroyed one lung and possibly clipped the other (I really didn't investigate it too much) and the broadhead lodged in the rib cage on the opposite side. This is only my 2nd bow kill to date. My first bow kill was in 2008 and was maybe a week or two before I joined this site. The only good chance I've had at a bow kill during that time was either the 2014 or 2015 season. That's it. Maybe if I put a little more time into it I might become more of a successful bow hunter but I've always loved gun hunting. So my vacation days revolve around the 2 week time frame that is gun season. I have 3 weeks off this month and the first week was for bow. The weather did not cooperate for me as I'm not a fan of hunting in 60+ degree weather and I believe it was above 70 a couple of those days. I think last Thursday was pushing 60. I did hunt the opener yesterday and got out before the rain started. Hunted the evening as well and didn't see one doe. Taking a few off from hunting to get some other stuff done and probably get back at this weekend for some doe hunts.

Congrats Lee! Thanks for sharing.
I got out this evening and hunted from the pole barn again. Had 4 deer book it across the field so fast from the road that I couldn’t even tell what they were.

Nice 👍

Well, that was quick! I sat until a little after 8 this morning and this guy showed up. Pa and Mommom told me they've been seeing an 8 point hanging around the property. I had seen a smaller 8 one day while driving down the road and assumed that was the one. My jaw almost dropped when I saw this dude walk into the woods. Came right in front of the buddy stand into bow range. If someone needs me to come sit with them for good luck let me know.   I've been on a big buck streak with filming Sam's buck and my bow buck last year. I think I better enjoy it while it lasts. 

Man, I didn’t think there was any way you were getting that on video when he came in behind you like that. Way to be patient! I guess that buck had actually read the script! 😂