First 380 deer

[Lake shooter]

Filled a tag this morning. Rattled in this puppy about 10:00 am. He came in on a trot in conditions that the deer camp know it alls suggest staying home; WINDY! He also came in from dead upwind, as most bucks that I see usually do. More deer camp BS bites the dust!

It was blowing 15 - 25 with higher gusts. I had to wait for the lulls to hopefully be heard. After maybe my 4th sequence of the morning he responded within a minute and came straight to me, then turned and walked broadside not 18-20 yards out and stopped........ with a small limb right in the center of my cross hairs! He stood there looking for the others bucks for a good two minutes, then made the fatal mistake of stepping forward. when I hit the trigger he took off like a scalded mule up the mountainside, then turned and went back down before stopping and falling over about 80 yards out, straight in front of me.

He's no monster for sure, but he's mature and this is HARD haunted public land not 20 minutes from my house in the Capitol city of Arkansas, and I fooled him, so I'm pretty pleased! 18"+ inside spread.

I never found the darn bolt, looked many times.
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[gerald strine]

Congrats on your deer and new bow !

[Lake shooter]

Thanks guys, I freaking LOVE the bow!!!!!
My first crossbow, and I made a wise choice.

[Kegbelly]

Congrats!!
I'm planning to hit the woods next year with a Matrix, I've already met my quota for new toys this year.

[bigredopie]

Sounds like a keeper to me. Good shooting, the first of many to come I am sure.

[vixenmaster]

Congrats on gettin a nice deer

[Riflemanz]

Congrats!

[ranger]

Congrats.

[sumner4991]

Good looking buck! Congrats!

[mr meat]

Congrats!!

[Lake shooter]

Riflemanz, thanks for posting my pic. I didn't even try because last time the moderator told me it was a no no.......... what's up with that anyway?

I have one buck tag left and it WON'T be used unless my target is bigger than the one in the pic, by a fairly healthy margin. If I just want meet I have 4 doe tags and also have permission to hunt private property that CRAWLING with does, and the land manager has about 200 depredation tags!