Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Ranger B on October 22, 2016, 06:14:02 pm
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It was one of those still mornings when you feel like the sound of your own breath will wake the entire forest. It was, as Dickens wrote, "summer in the light and winter in the shade;" crisp and cool for the first morning this fall.
I expected to see deer any minute. Everything was perfect, yet the first four didn't arrive until 7:43. Two does and two fawns came in fully alert. The first doe looked straight at me and began the head bob. I assumed that the gig was up. She even stomped the ground several times. I dug deep into my Ranger Ninja bag of discipline and froze. I refused to even blink, and eventually she decided to eat an acorn.
The biggest doe, the one I wanted, came in last. She finally worked her way into a position for a good shot and fate favored me. All four had their heads down, so I drew the bow. She did not flinch. The arrow disappeared through her, and when she ran I saw it lying on the ground drenched in blood.
Content with another deer down, I relaxed in the stand, but the morning was just getting started. At 8:13 another doe approached from the opposite direction. She was coming straight at me, but I knew that as soon as she smelt the blood she would run. I had to get the shot before she reached the arrow. She was five yards from my bloody arrow when she spooked but she didn't run, and that proved to be her fatal mistake. I drew the bow, set the gap, and once again got a clean pass through. My arrow stuck in the ground on the opposite side of her.
I ended up seeing ten deer and killed my sixth and seventh of the season. Freezer is looking better every day.
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Fill that freezer Jimmy and save us some. We'll be up in a couple of weeks.
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Good shooting :)
What are you shooting? Bow, weight, arrow points. ???
Thanks Zuma
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Congratulations and nice shooting!
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Congratulations and they both will be good eating.
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Shot the first one with a Trad Tech Titan III recurve. Shot the next four with a longbow 50# and POC arrows. These two were with a Martin X-200 and carbons. All heads were Zwicky 145 gr.
I think I'm going to use my Yew self bow next week. I hunted a few hunts with a hickory, but went back to the longbow.
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I think you need to start throwing rocks or sticks. ;)
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Good shooting, Jimmy. You sure doing your part at deer control. 8)
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Good shooting . I am lucky to see half that many deer in a season.
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Ranger you sure are in a honey hole there.Good shooting.Congratulations.
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I've got a shooting buddy that hunts the suburbs of Des Moines and shoots 10 to 12 does every year with a long bow.He donates most all of them to the homeless food shelters.
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Nice deer Jimmy, I looked them over in the cooler and it seems they had no inner loin or back straps in them, ??? can't believe you are shooting deer without them 2 important parts. Must be the Fort Campbell deer. >:D??? ;D ;D
Pappy
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They must have lost them coming down the road. They were there when I shot them. I know no one took them...