Shot it at about 20 yards (long shot for me
). Perfect double lung with a Wac'Em Exit (4 blade - similar to a slick trick in cut). Recovery distance 47 yards. I hauled a load of corn to the feeder with the landowner's tractor and pulled the card from the camera then took the tractor back and got my Phoenix out of the truck. Spent about half an hour at the shooting bench convincing myself the scope was going to hold zero for a while. The ladder stand is only about 30 yards from the bench, so I decided since it was 5:00PM I might as well climb up and set for a little while. Still recovering from the flu but this was a nice warm evening to be outdoors. At about 6:00PM I decided to have a cigar and when it was finished I would call it an evening. At 6:15PM two antlerless deer came in from the south and I looked them over. The first one was definitely a button buck, and I wasn't sure about the second one but it was bigger. It finally gave me a broadside shot at 20 yards and I let the arrow fly! It turned out to be a button buck, too.
Hate to take out the little bucks, but it will not be wasted I promise you!
Looks like the canner will get a workout again this weekend! I just canned a trial batch (4 pts) of "corned" venison today, so I will sample one of those tomorrow and see if I want to put up a bigger batch.
Took a couple pics, but they are bloody, so I won't post them.
Those Wac'Em exits cut an awesome hole.
