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Killed a spike on a Ohio camping trip.

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Ryano:
Here's a picture of me at camp with my little spike horn buck. We camped from wendsday evening to sunday, I shot this guy Saturday morning about 9:00am.  Only being there for 4 days I wasn't passing up any shot opportunity's. He came in from behind me and got by my stand about 20 yards to my right before I could get a shot. Then he got down wind of me and spooked and ran back the way he came from and paused for a brief moment at around 30 yards or so. Farther than I would normally consider shooting but I figured it may be my only opportunity, so I cranked back my Hawthorne bow and let one fly. I thought I was going to completely miss the deer low but my string slapped my coat sleeve a little bit and and it made a noise and the buck ducked into the shot. The arrow hit him the neck and cut the main artery. He ran about two hundred yards. I never seen such a blood trail. You could see the blood from twenty paces away as we followed it. I guess its better to be lucky than good. You never know what can happen on longer shots like that, the deer has a lot of time to move between the time you let your arrow fly and the time it actually gets there. Guess luck was on my side this time.

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Pat B:
Looks pretty big for a spike. Must grow them big in Ohio. Corn fed I guess. Good shooting!    Pat

Pappy:
Good job Ryan,nice deer and good looking camp. :)
   Pappy

GregB:
Glad you got another one Ryan, a little luck never hurts!  ;)

DanaM:
Nice spike Ryano, looks to be average size for a northern spike to me :)

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