Awesome!
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** OFFICIAL 2014 DAILY DEER HUNT CHAT**
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Yep. That'd be way cool to see that. Any details on cuts or commentary would be a big bonus too.
Went out last night for the first time this year and took my 8 yr old son. We had a blast. Had 6 does and yearling within 15' of the blind and a real decent 6pt (save him for next year or two) 10 yds away. The boy was good and quiet for as excited as he was. It was the perfect hunt.
Good to hear you're back at 100%, Hickman.
selinoid44
Expert
The full moon has made the evening deer come out late...anybody else notice?
Let the Bowtech fly during my first hunt at the family farm this year. About a 12 yard shot on a mature doe with about ten minutes of legal light left. Stupid Nockturnal nock didn't light up so I didn't see the hit, but it sure sounded good. Found 7 inches of broken arrow, where she ran through a thicket of young trees and broke it off.
Thinking I must have buried the Slick Trick in the opposite shoulder, probably should have aimed a tad bit further back. Couldn't find a blood trail, it got real dark and real thick pretty fast.
I was messing around after getting set up, taking some pics. Ended up shooting her in that little clearing on the very left of this pic.
The funny thing is, that's an old road that I walked in on, my climber was facing more into the woods overlooking the two trails that come out of the bedding area. These two does came in at last light, walking straight up the road I came in on... and must have passed my truck on the way. I kept somewhat of an angle to spot deer walking down that road, didn't expect them to come up.
Even funnier.... I had just started to pack my stuff up to climb down. Had taken off my release and put the arrow back in the quiver.
We'll be back out tomorrow morning to find the doe, I'm sure with 20 inches of Easton stuck in her, she'll be on the ground in that thicket somewhere.
Thinking I must have buried the Slick Trick in the opposite shoulder, probably should have aimed a tad bit further back. Couldn't find a blood trail, it got real dark and real thick pretty fast.
I was messing around after getting set up, taking some pics. Ended up shooting her in that little clearing on the very left of this pic.
The funny thing is, that's an old road that I walked in on, my climber was facing more into the woods overlooking the two trails that come out of the bedding area. These two does came in at last light, walking straight up the road I came in on... and must have passed my truck on the way. I kept somewhat of an angle to spot deer walking down that road, didn't expect them to come up.
Even funnier.... I had just started to pack my stuff up to climb down. Had taken off my release and put the arrow back in the quiver.
We'll be back out tomorrow morning to find the doe, I'm sure with 20 inches of Easton stuck in her, she'll be on the ground in that thicket somewhere.
jblomenberg16
Grandmaster
Good shoot...hope you find her!
After spending all day crawling around the farm, and the adjoining property, the trail ends with no deer.
Lesson 1: I need to find the contact info for the adjoining property. It's Lawrence County and the farm is in Martin. I believe it's a lease because I only ever see people there during gun season. They have foot plots and trail cams, all of which have tons of pics of the boy and I crawling around. I did hold up my cell phone # to one of the trail cams, so hopefully we can exchange info and agree to allow the other to chase game. I felt dirty tracking a deer on his place.
Lesson 2: Two noobie bowhunter mistakes on my part. I held my pin I what I believed to be the middle of the vitals, but was actually high.. My pin was dialed for 20 yards and the doe was probably only 10-12 yards away. I should have compensated for being that close and elevated along with aiming way lower at the heart.
Lesson 3: I took 2 arrows with me, both with Slick Tricks and Nockturnals. I only tested one of the arrows to make sure it lit up. That just didn't happen to be the one I grabbed when I was setting up. I use them for a reason and when I needed it the most, it didn't come on to give me that instant feedback in low light.
This deer will probably live. She bedded for the night less than 80 yards from the shot and didn't leave a lot of blood there. I believe most of what we found today was probably from us pushing her and most of the time it was tiny specs. Sometimes we'd get a little more but after 800 yards and hours of crawling, it was literally specs.
It's going to take a week or more for me to recover physically. What was basically a chip shot last night became my worst hunt ever...
Lesson 1: I need to find the contact info for the adjoining property. It's Lawrence County and the farm is in Martin. I believe it's a lease because I only ever see people there during gun season. They have foot plots and trail cams, all of which have tons of pics of the boy and I crawling around. I did hold up my cell phone # to one of the trail cams, so hopefully we can exchange info and agree to allow the other to chase game. I felt dirty tracking a deer on his place.
Lesson 2: Two noobie bowhunter mistakes on my part. I held my pin I what I believed to be the middle of the vitals, but was actually high.. My pin was dialed for 20 yards and the doe was probably only 10-12 yards away. I should have compensated for being that close and elevated along with aiming way lower at the heart.
Lesson 3: I took 2 arrows with me, both with Slick Tricks and Nockturnals. I only tested one of the arrows to make sure it lit up. That just didn't happen to be the one I grabbed when I was setting up. I use them for a reason and when I needed it the most, it didn't come on to give me that instant feedback in low light.
This deer will probably live. She bedded for the night less than 80 yards from the shot and didn't leave a lot of blood there. I believe most of what we found today was probably from us pushing her and most of the time it was tiny specs. Sometimes we'd get a little more but after 800 yards and hours of crawling, it was literally specs.
It's going to take a week or more for me to recover physically. What was basically a chip shot last night became my worst hunt ever...
selinoid44
Expert
The exact reason I use a Keller pendulum sight. Point and shoot.
