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Orion makes meat (photo documentary)
Alpinbogen:
My new osage hunting bow, Orion, drew its first blood this weekend. I happened to have my camera with me to document the trail.
I'll start off with my ground blind. This is my hiding spot, as the deer see it.
This is the deer's hiding spot, as I see it.
Alpinbogen:
A pair of does worked their way to me in the morning. I drew back on the lead doe, took careful aim, and sent an arrow on a spectacular flight that smacked...
...dead into an overhanging limb between me and the deer. (Really, could I have center punched the limb more perfectly?)
Alpinbogen:
The thunderous crack that rang through the woods arosed rather direct suspicion in the deer. Both snapped towards me, wide eyed, and with ears aloft, ready to run. As I nocked a backup arrow (of which I always keep one or two drawn from the quiver and propped at the ready against a tree for just such events), I decided it would be in my best interest to crouch a little for the next shot. I took careful aim on the center of its chest, quickly made mental note of the arrow's trajectory relative to the limb, and released. Again the arrow took a beautiful arc, which this time fortunately cleared the limb and found its way into the deer's chest, just 2" from its windpipe. The arrow buried to the fletching from nearly 20 yards, and the deer took off along this trail.
Alpinbogen:
Estimating that the arrow perhaps hit just one lung (if not the heart), I decided to give the deer a solid hour to expire to play things safe. I occupied my mind by playing with the camera. Just 15 yards from the impact site, I found bright red blood.
Five yards further, I found the fletching end of my arrow, which must have sheared off when it caught on brush.
I reached the edge of the woods at yard 25, finding more blood sign.
Alpinbogen:
The deer exited the woods and ran along this field, parallel to the woods.
Yard 30, blood on soybeans.
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