Go figure, this Friday the 13th turned out to be a pretty good afternoon at my place in MO. This buck originally was walking right behind me and set to come out at about 20 yards. I had to turn around (slowly) to get into position to shoot as he came in from behind.
Although I thought I didn't make any noise, I obviously spooked him and he almost came unglued! But sure enough, shortly he crept back into an opening, but this time at about 35 yards.
I was having to shoot across the top of my Summit platform and could only get about 80% of full draw. But I knew that I needed to release the string as it was starting to get dark.
To my chagrin, I saw that I only got limited penetration, but felt it was a decent shot. I thought I heard him crash, but all kinds of second guesses were going through my head.
After waiting about 30 minutes after dark, my hunting buddy and I started looking for blood. At first we couldn't locate even the first drop of blood, then just a very small drop, but with a few more yards it started to open up so well. Kinda a trickle, flow, flood type trail that was easy to follow with our flashlights.
The fat little buck ran about 110 yards and the Wensel Woodman really did a number on him, revealing about 8" penetration at most on my forward shoulder shot.
BTW, I apologize for the "graphic" nature of these photos, should have cleaned him up a bit before my buddy snapped these. 58" DAS Daala 55@28".
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It all worked out nice buck!
Congrats! He looks YUMMY!
Congrats!!!
Way to go Barry! :)
great job barry! :thumbsup:
cool pics, congrats on the friday the 13th buck
Congrats
GOOD JOB BARRY!!
Congrats Barry!
Not graphic for me. Looks pretty good I'd say! Congrats on fine deer. :thumbsup: :clapper:
Way to go the Buckmeister!
That young buck venison would be really good slathered in olive oil....but make sure you gotta shovel handy.
Congrats
Great Buck Barry. Rick J
Congrats. Nice buck. :thumbsup:
not graphic for me neither cool to see how it all worked out
congrads
Love it. Now thats a blood trail!!!Congrats
I agree with your pic thoughts , but hey - you got a nice buck though.
Jer Bear
Congrats!
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Nicely done
Perfect!
Nice shooting Barry! Congrats!
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Good shooting
Congrats
Thanks for the attaboys everyone.
Ritchie, you got me laughing this morning. You better steer clear of that Olive Oil big boy! :biglaugh:
congrats
did you shoot that deer with an ax nice job
WAY To go BARRY!!!!!!!!!!
these are great!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup:
Another lefty on the board!!
Congrats!!
Icky blood..... :saywhat: Atta boy! :thumbsup: :goldtooth:
Boy that's a shame, good stew meat gone to waste!
Imagine that broadhead in there, churning and grinding away the whole 110 yds.
Good shootin, Steve :thumbsup:
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nice one barry
Way to go Barry.
Allan
Is that BH missing a blade? Good job!
No, it's just covered with blood and didn't show up in the pic Jim.