It seems like everyone on here was having so much fun and doing so well this season and I wasn't seeing much, that I was starting to wonder if it was going to happen this year for me or not. Well, it came together Friday evening. With about 10 minutes of shooting light left, I was standing up in the stand, bow at the ready. Figuring, the evening is about done, I'm thinking about where I will hunt the next day when I hear a twig snap just to the right of me. That isn't a squirrel! I glance over to the right to see this long nose doe walking in without a care in the world. I look ahead to see where she will be broadside and I can get a clear shot. She needs to go around a 10 foot high tree stump and I'm all set. She suddenly stops just before the stump and gazes off into the distance. I realize she is maybe 5 steps from my wind line and actually slightly quartering away, so why wait. I make the draw, pick a spot and let it fly. I hear a loud crack and she runs off with a lot of arrow sticking out, but the entry is exactly where I was aiming. I watch her run into a stand of hollies and then hear her go down. I text my partner and then get out of the tree slowly and back out to fetch him. There isn't a lot of blood, but she is down not 30 yards from where she was hit. I caught both lungs and penetrated through the opposite side shoulder. The arrow broke off as she was running and I recovered the back half. The front portion worked it's way out and lay where she fell.
I used my 48# Leon Stewart Slammer with CE 150 arrows w/125gr Stinger 2-blade heads and 50gr brass inserts. It's nice when it all comes together. I have taken deer with recurves before, but this was my first longbow kill.
It's great to shoot a big racked buck, but fooling these older long nose does isn't easy and I'll take the meat in the freezer. I can hunt horns the rest of the season.
(http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp107/lotusf14/004-Copy-1.jpg)
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dang nice doe!!! I agree with you 100% about fooling those old does... nice bow too,, my buddy has a 3-piece slammer hopefully he'll make meet with it soon and make leon proud..
Nice Pat :clapper:
Nice doe, congrats!
Congrats
Nice harvest.
Those 3 PC. Slammers are amazing shooters.
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Well Done, nice Doe! :thumbsup:
Congrats, nice job on the doe. I am still trying to get my first with the longbow this year.
Congrats! Nice doe.
Very nice!!!
Very nice! I'm jealous... Still waiting for mine to connect.
Congrats :clapper:
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Pat, i see you put your slammer you kept to good use. That is a nice doe and a good story. :thumbsup: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Congratulations! Nice looking doe and bow!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Nice! Congratulations and good shooting. And you still have your buck tag for the best time of the season.
Outstanding! :thumbsup: Congrats! :archer:
Great job!
See ,you didn't need one of those Silvertips..... :notworthy: she will eat well with some garlic and onions!!!
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Well done :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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very nice congrats :thumbsup:
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Congrats! :thumbsup:
At a boy, :thumbsup: :clapper:
Great job partner!! "Hunt horns the rest of the season"...we think alike too.
Nice doe and nice shooting! Congrats!
Way to go! :clapper: :clapper: :clapper: