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Title: First trad deer down in TN!!!!!
Post by: Matthew Bolton on October 01, 2011, 07:51:00 PM: I got settled up a tree in my climber around 7 at what we call the tractor seat stand. Around 7:25 a doe comes busting it down beside me from the power-line and stops 10 yards to my right where i cant shoot. She doesn't hang around for but 10 seconds or so. No more than 5 minutes later I hear one in the thicket above me. She lets me get stood up and turned to where i could shoot. After a nice 5 minute long staring contest she decides to feed closer. She ends up broadside at 12 yards. I focus on the pocket behind her shoulder and start my draw.

I get almost to full when my old friend target panic pops his head up and i let it go. That in itself would have given me a lung hit except the doe turns on the shot. All of this coupled with the fact i was shooting low to compensate for her ducking which she didn't do. Turns out to be a pure gut shot.

She hops to about 40 yards and beds down. A few minutes later she gets up and walks away all the while stopping.

Three hours later we jump her getting my dad's button buck out that he shot with his compound. We decided to be back by 3.

We started tracking where we had jumped her. Maybe not tracking more just trying to find the body. She didn't bleed a drop and we couldn't hoof track because of all of the deer sign on this hillside. Grid searching the whole half of this mountain we come up empty so we start up the dry creek bed at the bottom. Dad takes the right while I take the left.

As I'm working my way up I decide to sit down and take a water break and pray. While I have been praying since 7:30 that morning I thought it would be a good time to lift up another.

I go maybe 50 yards up the side of the hill and look down into the gully and see that familiar grey back laying in the bottom. 10 hours after the shot we find her still limber and warm. After a hug and high five and all the other things dads and sons do we got to work on her. I lifted up another prayer then, this one of thanks and apology to the deer.

After 5 years of bow hunting and my second year of traditional archery I finally pulled it off on my FIRST shot ever on a deer with traditional gear. God truly is a good God.

The woodsman elite getting tossed out of my 57# Zipper longbow rocked her.

(http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i433/matthewbolton1/longbowdeer-2.jpg)
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Post by: Coonbait on October 01, 2011, 08:00:00 PM: Congratulations!!! The first one is the BEST!
Glenn
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Post by: JoeM on October 01, 2011, 08:03:00 PM: Congrats!!! That shot looks like you may have gotten some liver also. Joe
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Post by: 2elkhunt on October 01, 2011, 08:15:00 PM: Good shooting,and nice trophy.Now your hooked!!!
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Post by: Yellow Dog on October 01, 2011, 08:19:00 PM: Super job. Your smile says it all, congrats on a real trophy :thumbsup:
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Post by: GRINCH on October 01, 2011, 08:21:00 PM: Great job,congrats. :thumbsup:
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Post by: bayhunter on October 01, 2011, 08:21:00 PM: congrats!
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Post by: zipper bowss on October 01, 2011, 08:34:00 PM: :clapper: Way to see it through,Matthew.
Bill
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Post by: Duker on October 01, 2011, 09:03:00 PM: CONGRATS on your first trad deer :thumbsup:
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Post by: A.S. on October 01, 2011, 09:10:00 PM: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: ethan on October 01, 2011, 09:15:00 PM: Congrats!! Where abouts are you in TN?
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Post by: Matthew Bolton on October 01, 2011, 09:16:00 PM: Hunting down in Hamilton county.
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Post by: koger on October 01, 2011, 09:24:00 PM: Congratulations, on your first, God is present always.
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Post by: Red4arm on October 01, 2011, 09:28:00 PM: Congrats, I'm a Hamilton county hunter also.
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Post by: DannyBows on October 01, 2011, 09:28:00 PM: Well Done, Congrats!
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Post by: Mudd on October 01, 2011, 09:32:00 PM: I appreciate your testimony as well as your deer.

You did a great job seeing it through to it's conclusion.

I know you appreciated the help from both Dads.

God bless,Mudd
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Post by: GREATBROWNKNOCKEMDOWN on October 01, 2011, 10:02:00 PM: Awesome !! congrats on the recovery.
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Post by: Tajue17 on October 01, 2011, 10:06:00 PM: very good!!! reminds me of a doe that spun on me and I gut shot her.. found her the next morning but man o man what a smell!!!! for me it was a lesson well learned where my shot was too long to begin with..

fresh meats a stacking,, T
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Post by: jonsimoneau on October 01, 2011, 10:09:00 PM: Way to go. I applaud your persistance, when so many others would have given up. You will be rewarded with many more.
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Post by: rjackson on October 01, 2011, 10:14:00 PM: Good job.
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Post by: nomad on October 01, 2011, 10:20:00 PM: Alright ! Good job. Hamilton county,heck man that's just right down the road from me.
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Post by: Matthew Bolton on October 01, 2011, 10:54:00 PM: I don't really like hunting around Hamilton as much as other counties because there are little bodied INCREDIBLY skidish deer that walk around looking up trees but we make it work.
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Post by: pacopperhead on October 01, 2011, 11:28:00 PM: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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Post by: hnt2mch on October 02, 2011, 04:32:00 AM: :thumbsup:
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Post by: steadman on October 02, 2011, 09:06:00 AM: Congrats on your first! :thumbsup:
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Post by: Red Tailed Hawk on October 02, 2011, 09:52:00 AM: thats the way!!
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Post by: BMN on October 02, 2011, 10:06:00 AM: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jason Kendall on October 02, 2011, 10:09:00 AM: Nice Doe!
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Post by: trad_bowhunter1965 on October 02, 2011, 10:16:00 AM: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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Post by: Jerry Jeffer on October 02, 2011, 10:45:00 AM: Great job! :thumbsup:
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Post by: twitchstick on October 02, 2011, 10:51:00 AM: :clapper:
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Post by: KentuckyTJ on October 02, 2011, 11:00:00 AM: Fantastic stuff congrats.
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Post by: Matthew Bolton on October 02, 2011, 05:22:00 PM: I think I got the picture downsized. At least photobucket said it was 400x400 this time.
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Post by: mwosborn on October 02, 2011, 05:25:00 PM: So satisfying! Congrats!
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Post by: 59Alaskan on October 02, 2011, 05:31:00 PM: CONGRATULATIONS and great job to you and your father for being persistent and patient. Looks like those prayers helped!
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Post by: tracker1 on October 02, 2011, 05:37:00 PM: Good job I'm looking for my first traditional deer this year also.
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on October 02, 2011, 05:43:00 PM: Congrats.
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Post by: yellow bow on October 02, 2011, 06:11:00 PM: :thumbsup: :clapper:
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Post by: LookMomNoSights on October 02, 2011, 06:44:00 PM: Awesome.....nice job!
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Post by: Cookus on October 02, 2011, 07:09:00 PM: Congratulations on your first!
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Post by: rolltidehunter on October 02, 2011, 07:19:00 PM: Awesome where in Tn are you hunting?
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Post by: Matthew Bolton on October 02, 2011, 07:34:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by rolltidehunter:
Awesome where in Tn are you hunting?
Southeast. Hamilton county to be specific.
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Post by: huntmaster80 on October 02, 2011, 07:36:00 PM: great job!!!
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Post by: jeff w on October 02, 2011, 07:59:00 PM: Congratulations, good looking deer!
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Post by: kadbow on October 02, 2011, 08:55:00 PM: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: