Have had a strange season with a couple of uncharateristic misses and lost my best buck ever in a monster swamp I hunt around. I had been seeing multiple bucks from spikes to 8pts every time out but wanted a big one. Last night I decided to take the next racked buck opportunity because rifle season starts Monday and the red coat army makes buck hunting tough in Michigan with a bow in December. I knew this would be my last real evening of hunting undisturbed deer for 2010. At 4:30 this fella walks out and gives me a 20yard shot quartering away and I was fortunate enough to make good. I then look at my phone to check the weather and see there is a 40% chance of rain. Stuggling with what to do it starts spitting at about 5pm and so I climb down to see what the sign looks like. Good news - imediate blood and lots of it with a football size pile of red foam. I decide to try and find him right then and not risk the rain. About 40 yards into the swamp, following great blood, I bump a deer that charges deeper into the suck hole. Dog gone, I cannot believe this buck is still alive and really cannot believe I was so impatient!!! Back out quietly and risk the rain. After a tough night I discover it did rain but very little. I get back into the same tree and wait for thie lights to come on. Planned to sit until 8am but by 7:30 I could not take it anymore. I go back to the original blood and it is almost gone, argggg - I am getting worried but head to the last spot of blood. There is a little blood left to track but not much and another 20 yards in I find a jelly ball of blood in his bed where I must have pushed him last night. After the bed I start looking in the direction I heard the deer run and cannot find anything. After a couple hours of grid searching in the direction of travel where I place a small piece of TP every 10 yards or so to know where I had been I go back to the last blood. Totally frustrated and loosing faith I start going in the oposite direction I had been looking and whola, there he is, stone dead! I was 10' from him many times and he was dead before I got out of my tree. Must have been another deer that blew outa there last night. I was so grateful. thanks for listening.
By the way - I got to try out my new Boker carbon trapper I traded a dozen arrows for with another Tradganger. Worked well!
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Good story... Good deer, congrats
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Way to stick with the trailing, know sometimes it is frustrating but when you find the pot of gold at the end it is worth. Good job.
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Nice buck! Way to stay with it. I doubt I would have had the patience that you did on the evening you shot him, with it spittin' rain and all. Good job. :thumbsup:
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funny thing is that if the other deer did not spook out of there I would have kept tracking and found him in another couple minutes last night but I had no idea he was so close and DEAD!
Way to go Bobby, congrats on a nice buck :thumbsup:
David
Congrats, Bobby. Way to stick with it! Great ending to another bow season.
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Great story and congratulations! :thumbsup: :clapper:
with a shot like that, he was'nt goin' very far...great job!
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Congrats to ya. Nice buck.
nice buck, bobby! congratulations!
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Way to go! :thumbsup:
Way to go! :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: Nice deer and story. Way to stay with it, persaverence pays off.
congrads
that is a nice looking deer... Joe
Congrats!
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Great job!
GLENN
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Good job !!
Very Cool ...
Nice buck! Been through that situation before, glad it all worked out.
Nice buck :archer2:
:thumbsup: Congrats on a nice buck!
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I am glad for you.
Congrats! Glad you found him.
Hey, nice buck Bob!!!
I`m not sure how I missed this, so I have to wish you a belated congrats!!!
Sweet looking bow too!!!
I can`t wait until the woods go quiet again...the deer have been pounded up here by me!
Congrats again!!! :thumbsup:
Nice deer!
What kinda stick were ya shootin?
Good job!
I really like that photo of you and your buck.
Nice MI buck Bobby, those can be hard to come by!
No doubt about the red army!!
That is a Bighorn curve. Ramwood and Birdseye maple. Thanks everyone.
You're fortunate you found him. I lost one after a bad shot and 4.5 hours of searching today.
Congrats :thumbsup: