This morning was cool & damp, perfect for still hunting. So, I headed out through our woods that are still bordered by standing corn. This farm has been in our family since 1919. I grew up exploring these woods, so needless to say I know the area pretty well. This woodlot is not very big only about 8 acres. It is old mature white oaks, hickory and some very large maples. After getting the wind right and slipping through this stand of trees without seeing anything other than squirrels. I moved on to one of my favorite spots. It is a small stand of sassafras trees that is surrounded by corn on all sides. The deer love to bed in this little thicket. With the standing corn providing me some cover, I could slip along quietly and look in to this little patch of cover. I did see one nice young buck bedded. It was pretty nice for a young buck, and I could not help but think what he may become in a few more years. After watching him for a bit he got up and eased off.
It was getting on to around 11:00 so I thought I would ease up the old fence row that separates the two large cornfields. The fence row ends near my house. With the rain we have had the last couple of days the trail that is usually along the fence was turned into a sloppy mud highway. I had made it about halfway to the end of the fence row when a doe comes blowing out of the other corn field into the mud highway with me. She is running right at me. Behind her I can hear another deer in the corn chasing the doe and grunting every breath. It was a small 6 pt. behind him is a 4 pt. and about 30 seconds behind him was a nice 8 pt. that I knew I would shoot if he gave me a good opportunity. They all cut past me at less than 20 yards. All except the bigger buck, he was out of range trying to cut the corner and get to the doe. After they all ran out of sight I started easing towards the small wood lot the deer ran into. As they often do when in the rut they were running wild mowing over corn in and out of the woods, and paying little attention to anything else. As I got about 30 yards of the opening that connected the two fields, the deer came running through the opening. None of them stopped, but the bigger buck was not with them. I suppose he had lost track of the doe in the corn. I stood there on the edge of the corn looking for the buck. Then there he was in the open broadside. He stood just long enough for me to get an arrow through him. After the shot I decided to wait an hour before tracking him. I was only about 75 yards from my house so I went to tell Tracy of the action. Then I got to thinking about the buck running toward the road, and got a little concerned. So I decided to drive up the road to make sure he was not lying dead next to the road. That is when saw the blood trail going across the road. The deer ran right down a driveway and into the woods behind a house. After telling the lady what was going on, she says sure go ahead. I just want to see him on the way out. I know the story is a little long, but it was an eventful morning.
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Great buck Bill!
Way to go, Bill! Congratulations!
Claudia
I was shooting a 51# SXT with carbon and foam longbow limbs.The arrow was a 29" Goldtip 55-75 with 100 grain brass insert, and a 250 grain VPA Terminator 640 grains total.
The blood trail was ok. :goldtooth:
Bill
Nice deer. Nice pictures.
Thats a nice one Bill!
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Wow Bill that's a dandy. And with one of them ugly bows too. Go figure. LOL
Mike
Great buck :thumbsup:
Great buck Bill.....that's a dandy for sure
GOOD JOB, great lookin deer. The pic from the road looks like a crime scene photo, broad head messed him up.
Nice deer,congrats!
Wow.......Bill, what a story !!! Congrat's to you, that is a nice buck. The bloodtrail shoulda been easy enough for a blind fella to follow. I'm heading out tomorrow, and taking my niece with me......I'm not carrying anything, but would sure like to put her on a deer. We'll see what happens.
Winterhawk1960
Bill,
I am glad to see you got him!!!!! Congrats!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Way to go Bill.
Good job Bill. :thumbsup:
Great looking deer! From the looks of that blood trail, he was running out of oil fast.
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Holy cow! Sounded like you need a traffic whissle so you don't get run over! Look like he was running off with a open can of red paint! Sweet! Nice deer and cool story!
Jerry
Oh yeah very nice! He was leaking pretty good. Congratulations.
Nice one!
Great recovery!
Shoot straight, Shinken
Nice one Bill. looks like a liver hit? Amazing how much blood they can leak out. congrats.
Chuck
Thanks everyone.This deer is pretty special to me.Not because of the size of his rack.That dosent hurt any. :D The main reason he is so special is because of where he came from.Like I said this farm has been in our family since 1919 when it was bought by my great grandfather.This is actualy the first deer I have ever killed on this farm.I use to hunt it alot when I was a kid.I would get up every sat. and walk out back to hunt deer.I guess hunting is not a good description.Spooking the few deer I actualy seen would be a better description.At that time there was not many deer around, and just seeing a deer track was something to talk about.There was a steep learning curve since no one in my family knew much about deer hunting.Still to this day Tracy and I are the only bow hunters.Between my lack of experience and only seeing a deer or two all season.I soon found greener pastures to hunt.It has just been the last few years that I have started deer hunting here again.We always just rabbit and squirrel hunt here.The small woods next to where I shot the deer, is only about 50 yards from where the house stood that I grew up in.The house is no longer there.
Bill
Very cool story Bill.
Congrats on a nice buck!
No liver hit.Just one very important artery. :thumbsup:
Bill
Good deal Bill. Congrats to you buddy.
Congratulations Bill! Nice Buck for sure!
Yeh, that was my next guess(haha)
I hit that first buck this year in the liver and clipped one lung, the trail on one side looked like yours and the other side was spraying BIGTIME. Congrats again. thats a nice one.
Chuck
Way to go Bill!!! :thumbsup: :notworthy: :notworthy:
Bill
Awesome Bill. Great looking deer! That blood trail across the road is awesome.
Chris
Nice, very nice, Bill.
Chad
Nice one Bill. Please tell me that you were using the VPA terminator B/H, since I just ordered some from you, lol. Haven't had a chance to use mine yet.
Love that blood trail.
Nice buck! Congrats!
Good looking deer and an awesome blood trail, I like to see 2 trails of blood! :clapper:
Benjy
Great buck!
great buck :clapper:
awesome!
Gotta love a day like that! Congrats.
Don't get much better than that..... great buck and story to go with it. Congrats !!!
Yea Mule, 250 grain VPA.
BIll
Super deer! Excellent bows and better people! Good on you.
Congratulations,
Charlie
Nice buck, congrats! The blood trail across the road is pretty cool.
Bill,
Outstanding...See you save all the pretty bows for yourself. Just kiddin"..We have a few.
God Bless, Pierre and Jean-Pierre
Nice buck Bill, Isn't Tracy's buck much smaller ????? :bigsmyl: Congratulations to both you and Tracy, freezer should be running over now..
OH BOB,You are really on her list now!She said,she thinks hers is bigger then the one you killed this year. :biglaugh: Tracy must realy like you Bob.Usualy she only talks to me that way.
Bill
Congratulations Bill. Very nice deer. Hope you and Tracey have a great Thanksgiving. MIKE
Awesome Bill great buck! congrats
Great buck, I love blood trails like that.
Jack
What an awesome bloodtrail! Thanks for sharing the pics and story Bill!
Glad the story was long as it told it how it happened. Great story and buck congrats.
Bill, I think she has me beat the last 2 years. I still may catch one thinking with the wrong brain, close enought and he is having a real bad day, I might get lucky.
Congrats!
Bill
Great story and nice deer. Congratulations!!
Very nice buck Bill, congratulation on a very exciting hunt.
Thats a nice animal!! :thumbsup:
I like stories with a happy ending ... very nice deer. :jumper:
Great buck!!What a blood trail...
Bill
Your my hero man!!!! What a nice buck!!!
Nice deer.
Chad
Way to go Bill.
Bill,
Extremely pretty buck! Happy for you.
Nice Bill! Before I scrolled down to see the picture I was sure it was Tracy's story...all the words spelled right, decent puncuation, the story had great sequence, and then you ruin it with your picture! Seriously, great buck. Those sound like the same limbs I'm looking for. How's the new jig working?
Wow Great Buck Bill. Congrats
:biglaugh: Yea Mike,I'm no dummy.I'm just smart enough to have Tracy proof read my jiberish before posting it.These limbs are very similar to yours.However these limbs are trained.This is deer number 6 for them this fall.
Thanks everyone for all the great comments.Gotta go I just got a call for deer tracking duties.
Bill
Way to go bud.
:thumbsup: Congratulations Bill, thanks a dandy buck!!
Nice buck Bill! :thumbsup: Way to go.
Bill I love the story about the deer coming from a farm that has been in your family for 90 years . No matter what happens don't ever get rid of family land , my great grandfather owned half of a county and 2 of his sons wasted it all away ( Gasoline and perfume ) , anyway congrats on a nice deer and I loved the pictorial of the blood trail :)
Jack
Nice one Bill. That is a great story.
Awesome
Way to go Bill, helluva nice buck!
Awesome!
Nice to see this story again !!! :thumbsup:
Bill
Bill, my congratulations are coming rather late, but this is the first I saw of this post. Nice deer, nice bow, and great guy! Way to go!!
2009??? Wow seems like last year. Damn I'm getting old.
I am glad this came back around.
AAHHHH a blast from the past.I'm with you TJ.I can hardly believe it has been so long.
Bill
That blood trail was impressive...I emjoy reading the stories from before I joined. Great buck, and nice bow.
Bill what Kind of Bows do you shoot? who makes them :confused:
I dont feel like going back and reading the 3rd post :knothead:
Cool story!!!! :thumbsup: