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Post by live2hunt on Oct 28, 2008 8:57:49 GMT -5
Sunday morning I walked to my stand with a drag rag of doe estrous and hung it on a branch about 10 yds from my stand. Right at first light, this nice heavy racked 8pt. came out of the woods about 15 yds to my right. I knew I was going to shoot him as soon as I saw him so I stood up and grabbed my bow. He came out into a cut bean field and stood broadside at 20 yds. This should have been a chip shot, but I got excited and forgot to pick a spot. I hit him pretty far back, not a good shot. So I waited to check the arrow for about an hr. Then I got down and saw decent blood on the arrow, but it was pretty dark so I thought probably liver hit. We backed out and gave him about five hrs, and then picked up the trail about noon. I shot him around 7:30. We had pretty good blood for about 150 yds and then it just quit. We thought he was going to follow this fence row and head into a grown up crp field where they bed, but couldn't find any sign of where he'd entered. That's when my cousin mentioned that he'd seen fresh buck tracks by the road about 500 yds in the opposite direction in which we thought he'd ran. So, we went and checked out the tracks and noticed that they looked the same as the tracks my buck was leaving. We followed them to the road and sure enough there was blood on the road. He'd crossed the county road and went onto the neighbors property. I'm not from the area where we lease so we had to go find out who owned the property and get permission to look for my deer. Once we got permission, we picked up the search inside the woods. We found very little blood, but just enough to guess at which direction he was going. After about 3 hrs of trailing and little blood, we were just about ready to give up, when my cousin and hunting partner yelled, "There he is, at the bottom of the hill!" I was so excited. I was on an emotional roller coaster Sunday. I went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, but it ended very well. This was my biggest buck to date, and with a bow, I couldn't be happier.   |
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Oct 28, 2008 9:11:29 GMT -5
Congrats on a great buck!
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 28, 2008 9:15:56 GMT -5
Nice Buck,Great that you stuck to the trail and found him.
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Post by dbd870 on Oct 28, 2008 9:21:58 GMT -5
Nice buck and way to stick with it.
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Post by trapperdave on Oct 28, 2008 9:59:45 GMT -5
Congrats on a good one!
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Post by Decatur on Oct 28, 2008 10:32:33 GMT -5
Nice one Ryan! I think I've been to the Sportsman's Lodge a time or two.
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Post by vortex100 on Oct 28, 2008 10:33:13 GMT -5
Congrats - nice buck!
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Post by live2hunt on Oct 28, 2008 11:03:57 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity, anyone got any guesses as to what his gross score is? This is my largest buck with a bow, and I'm just curious as to what he'll score. I realize he's not a monster, but would like to know. Thanks,
Ryan
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Post by Decatur on Oct 28, 2008 11:06:18 GMT -5
My guess-between 125 and 130". This is Hot Rod from the Lodge BTW.
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Post by swilk on Oct 28, 2008 11:33:41 GMT -5
nice buck. I would say around 115" gross or so.
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Post by daworz on Oct 28, 2008 11:42:12 GMT -5
Congrats Nice buck! i think they are diffently up looking for Hot does Now. I saw a decent 8 that was crusing the field this mororing, just could'nt get him to respond to any calls, and even hit the horns together, (tickle), he had his nose to the ground the whole way.
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Post by live2hunt on Oct 28, 2008 11:55:13 GMT -5
Hey Hot Rod!
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Post by HuntMeister on Oct 28, 2008 12:45:38 GMT -5
Congrats! Good job tracking him down! Lot of guys might have given up.
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Post by hoosier on Oct 28, 2008 14:03:37 GMT -5
atta boy!
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Post by GumLickBottoms on Oct 28, 2008 14:30:01 GMT -5
Nice deer with a bow. Great job!
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Post by Sasquatch on Oct 28, 2008 14:57:03 GMT -5
Great job sticking with the trail. I would be proud to shoot him!
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Post by huxbux on Oct 28, 2008 15:06:46 GMT -5
That's a nice buck, congrats! Way to stick with the trail, perseverence is the key.
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Post by Decatur on Oct 28, 2008 16:07:42 GMT -5
I just told Steve today you were on here. His name is "Skid" on this forum.
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Post by steiny on Oct 28, 2008 19:21:49 GMT -5
Good work & Congratulations!
Those mature deer can sure go a ways when mortally wounded.
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Post by elmo on Oct 28, 2008 22:45:11 GMT -5
congrats on a nice buck.
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