I really couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this guy strolling into view.
I was set up on a ditch line along a small clover field. The field is 40 yards across to a large set of pines.
He had scrape all along the edge of these pines. 40 is my maximum so I felt comfortable with that shot if it should present itself.
Anyway, I had two does and a fawn feeding in the clover. They had been out there about a half hour and it was on it's way to get down time. All of a sudden their heads pop up and they look towards the other end of the field and here he comes.
He is walking right down the middle of the field which would give me a 20 yard shot. I get into my kill mode where I try and block out everything else and concentrate just on killing that deer.
When he got to within 50 yards he veered towards his scrape line. I knew that a certain tree in the pines was 40 yards and the edge of the field was 36.
The route he was walking would set up a good 30 yards shot. When he got almost broadside I BAHHED at him to stop him. He didn't hear it or ignored it so I really BAHHED the second time. He stopped and I was already on his shoulder. I popped the trigger and heard a SMACK when the arrow hit him.
He immediately ran into the pines. I listened and heard a crash in about 7 or 8 seconds . I stayed in the stand for 15 minutes and then quietly climbed down and backed out going back to the truck to meet my son.
We went back into to trail him and he was down in 50 yards. That made dad and son extremely happy.
He is a fine 8 pointer that went about 185 field dressed.
His neck was swollen pretty good and he was rank with rut odor.
Realy nice buck good job, CONGRAT'S
