Ddog
11-28-2010, 08:03 PM
Nov 28th was one year from the day when i took the youngster out and hooked up with his beauty biggest WT buck.
this year i decided i was going to be on my own and sit in my treestand that had some huge potential. After the snows in the last week and and a bit it turned out that my stand was situated in a very good spot, i kinda already knew this from all the scouting and hunting in the last 5 years in the spot.
i was hoping it would be the same and it surely was.
last thursday i got to sit in my stand for about 5 hours, but the -25c got the better of me and i had to get out and walk to the truck for some warmth.
Today however was different, just a -6c and snowing steady was the perfect temp and weather to get ready for the long haul and sit from daybreak to dark if i had to.
as soon as i reached the stand and sat down i had 2 does come past in the first 5 minutes, boy oh boy i thought it was going to be a steady day, then by 9am nothing else had come through and i was a little discouraged, but i had to stay just looking at all the trails around my stand, at 10am a beauty 4x4 buck walked on through and i neglected to even pick up the bow on him as i was after one a bit bigger, but he was a nice one.
right after him 10 minutes or so another one, same thing 4x4 down the trail and gone without even a sound.
by 10:30am i had several good bucks pass in bow range and few just out of my range.
then as i was trying to keep the snow from blowing in my face a couple more does trotted on by and then the buck came through a few minutes later.
i trie to video him but he was gone so fast all i could do was grab my bow and hope he came my way. Well as i was peering through the tree in front of me i could see his legs appear, then the chest, then neck head and antlers.
i guess thats the one i will take i thought, as soon as he started his walk towards me i had the perfect opportunity to draw, so i did, he came through and stopped at about 15yards behind the aspen trees in front of my stand, 30 seconds later he made the mistake and stepped out and took a few steps and thats where the arrow flew straight and true through both lungs and the heart. You just cant get a better shot with the bow. 9 yards paced off.
after a brief track he was piled up some 60 or so yards from my point of impact.
at that point my friend Rocksteady's phone was ringing and sure enough came to help me drag him out in the foot and a half of snow. Well close to it anyways. it took us 1 hour 15 minutes to drag him in a sled to the truck.
thanks again Mike, would have been alot harder without ya!
one pic here, more to come of the broadheads POI and the devastion the mechanical spitfires do!
this buck was a serious scrapper, a 5x4 with lots of cuts. he also has a bullet wound that opened him up on the back of the neck,a very close escape, gave him a good flesh wound.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/DDOGGY/IMG_0167.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/DDOGGY/IMG_0166.jpg
this year i decided i was going to be on my own and sit in my treestand that had some huge potential. After the snows in the last week and and a bit it turned out that my stand was situated in a very good spot, i kinda already knew this from all the scouting and hunting in the last 5 years in the spot.
i was hoping it would be the same and it surely was.
last thursday i got to sit in my stand for about 5 hours, but the -25c got the better of me and i had to get out and walk to the truck for some warmth.
Today however was different, just a -6c and snowing steady was the perfect temp and weather to get ready for the long haul and sit from daybreak to dark if i had to.
as soon as i reached the stand and sat down i had 2 does come past in the first 5 minutes, boy oh boy i thought it was going to be a steady day, then by 9am nothing else had come through and i was a little discouraged, but i had to stay just looking at all the trails around my stand, at 10am a beauty 4x4 buck walked on through and i neglected to even pick up the bow on him as i was after one a bit bigger, but he was a nice one.
right after him 10 minutes or so another one, same thing 4x4 down the trail and gone without even a sound.
by 10:30am i had several good bucks pass in bow range and few just out of my range.
then as i was trying to keep the snow from blowing in my face a couple more does trotted on by and then the buck came through a few minutes later.
i trie to video him but he was gone so fast all i could do was grab my bow and hope he came my way. Well as i was peering through the tree in front of me i could see his legs appear, then the chest, then neck head and antlers.
i guess thats the one i will take i thought, as soon as he started his walk towards me i had the perfect opportunity to draw, so i did, he came through and stopped at about 15yards behind the aspen trees in front of my stand, 30 seconds later he made the mistake and stepped out and took a few steps and thats where the arrow flew straight and true through both lungs and the heart. You just cant get a better shot with the bow. 9 yards paced off.
after a brief track he was piled up some 60 or so yards from my point of impact.
at that point my friend Rocksteady's phone was ringing and sure enough came to help me drag him out in the foot and a half of snow. Well close to it anyways. it took us 1 hour 15 minutes to drag him in a sled to the truck.
thanks again Mike, would have been alot harder without ya!
one pic here, more to come of the broadheads POI and the devastion the mechanical spitfires do!
this buck was a serious scrapper, a 5x4 with lots of cuts. he also has a bullet wound that opened him up on the back of the neck,a very close escape, gave him a good flesh wound.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/DDOGGY/IMG_0167.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d167/DDOGGY/IMG_0166.jpg