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Title: Some luck + some experience=? (follow up pics p.2)
Post by: JoeM on October 28, 2011, 07:53:00 PM
Well I owe this one to some good equipment (heavy arrows) and some experience.
Arrived at my spot this morning and decided to take in the climber. I already had a stand in this piece, but, the wind couldn't make up its mind.  So I decided to head for a ridge where hopefully it would be a little more consistent.
A slow morning so at 8:20 I hit the grunt tube and a few minutes later I hear a deer approaching. Its a doe coming in at a trot I look behind her for a trailer but she's alone.  Decide to take her but she's not gonna stop on her own so I let out a low Maaa.  She locks up and stares in my direction (real tense). I'm at full draw.
Last season I had an 8 point out of this same tree duck me when I stopped him. Seeing this doe is tense I pick the lowest hair I can see on her side. She tried to limbo but I caught her in the spine, had to finish her with a follow up shot.  Not my best shot but my equipment did its job. 60# Striker 644 grain arrow with two blade Zwickey  12yd shot
Autopsy results
 (http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg177/Joe-Mart/P1050928.jpg)
Zwickey held up great
 (http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg177/Joe-Mart/P1050931.jpg)

I like this pic with the tree stand in the background
 (http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg177/Joe-Mart/P1050921.jpg)
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Post by: wv lungbuster on October 28, 2011, 07:57:00 PM
Awesome congrats. That is a cool pic    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Big Ed on October 28, 2011, 08:02:00 PM
Very nice! Man you don't get up very high. LOL
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Post by: Gen273 on October 28, 2011, 08:03:00 PM
Great Job, Congrats!!!
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Post by: Guru on October 28, 2011, 08:07:00 PM
Awesome, congrats brother and a great pic!
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Post by: waiting4fall on October 28, 2011, 08:08:00 PM
Good stuff!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: KentuckyTJ on October 28, 2011, 08:09:00 PM
Very nice hero shot for sure. Great job Joe.
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Post by: Kapellmeister on October 28, 2011, 08:28:00 PM
:clapper:   Bravo!  Well done, lad!  (I like that "hero" photo too.)
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Post by: Shortlongbow on October 28, 2011, 08:33:00 PM
Good going! Love those Zwickeys. They have never failed me.
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Post by: Hooper on October 28, 2011, 08:42:00 PM
Nice doe! Congrats!!
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Post by: South MS Bowhunter on October 28, 2011, 08:53:00 PM
Great job!
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on October 28, 2011, 08:54:00 PM
Congrats Joe.

Great looking Doe!
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Post by: rastaman on October 28, 2011, 09:23:00 PM
Way to go sir!     :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
Cool picture!
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Post by: imhntn on October 28, 2011, 09:36:00 PM
Good job on shooting low with the alert deer!   Nice pics too.
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Post by: Dry Creek on October 28, 2011, 09:40:00 PM
Congrats and that is a great picture!
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Post by: BEN on October 28, 2011, 09:46:00 PM
nice!!
cool pic,too!  :archer:
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Post by: pacopperhead on October 29, 2011, 12:27:00 AM
:clapper:  good job joe
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Post by: GRINCH on October 29, 2011, 12:40:00 AM
:clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:
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Post by: legends1 on October 29, 2011, 12:51:00 AM
That shot will work every time no tracking ether.CONGRATULATIONS
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Post by: Stone Knife on October 29, 2011, 05:50:00 AM
Nice Joe   :thumbsup:
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Post by: straitera on October 29, 2011, 08:23:00 AM
Excellent Joe! Shooting low hair on a tense deer comes from experience. Well done!
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Post by: lpcjon2 on October 29, 2011, 08:27:00 AM
That smile says it all,Congats!
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Post by: Widow's Son on October 29, 2011, 08:37:00 AM
Great job! It's very hard to hit an alert deer. Resharpen that Zwickey and use it again. They are truly great broadheads and have stood the test of time.
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Post by: LV2HUNT on October 29, 2011, 08:38:00 AM
Good job, congrats. I have sworn off stopping deer w/noise for that very reason.
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Post by: Doc Nock on October 29, 2011, 09:00:00 AM
Early Primos vids were good about showing in slo mo how deer drop at the bow shot! Amazing how far them stinkers can drop to push off and fly outa there!

Friend in TX told me their deer are so wired, he holds 6" below their belly and they drop right in!   :scared:  That's wired!

I did one un-alert deer but she was close...really close, and she still dropped and it caught just UNDER the spine, but severed that main artery under the spine and she took 3 hops and stood there a second and fell over dead!

Great job! Neat to have enough ground to choose stand sites like that in a fickle breeze.

Can't wait for the buck shots you'll share soon!
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Post by: pitbull on October 29, 2011, 12:28:00 PM
Very nice!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: JoeM on October 31, 2011, 08:26:00 AM
Follow up pics.  Thought this was a cool trophy to keep.
(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg177/Joe-Mart/P1050958.jpg)
(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg177/Joe-Mart/P1050954.jpg)
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Post by: Doc Nock on October 31, 2011, 08:33:00 AM
That is pretty cool Souvenir. You make soup to get all the meat off?  :)

Li'l extra pepper and garlic will cover that metalic taste I'm sure!  :)

Dang but your set up surely did do the job...

I had to laugh going back and re-reading one comment about your hero pic where the guy said about your stand "not being very high off the ground!:  :D  We have some great wits here on Gang!
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Post by: Ranger75 on October 31, 2011, 09:32:00 AM
Very cool.
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Post by: Bud B. on October 31, 2011, 09:39:00 AM
Notice the straight/uncurled tip on that BH.

  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bud B. on October 31, 2011, 09:41:00 AM
There's a thread on the new Zwickey website soon to come. Maybe a good photo for their website?????
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Post by: Gatekeeper on October 31, 2011, 10:03:00 AM
Congratulations
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Post by: huntingarcher on October 31, 2011, 10:36:00 AM
Congrats,great pics.I think most of us have spined a deer a time or two.Kinda makes me feel that I made a bad shot,but when they start droping and rolling a spine shot works every time.I hunt east Tx deer that are always ready to blow up so I always shoot bottom line.I have had a few stand there and not move at all, end up shooting right under them.
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Post by: swp on October 31, 2011, 07:26:00 PM
Great pic and nice deer!!
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Post by: Red Tailed Hawk on October 31, 2011, 08:14:00 PM
Awesome, Love the broadhead pics!!!
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Post by: Chisler on November 02, 2011, 04:58:00 AM
Nice shot, nice set up, thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Big Ed on November 02, 2011, 06:56:00 AM
Cool broadhead pics
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Post by: far rider on November 02, 2011, 07:07:00 AM
Great pic, nice job. Amazes me how quick their reflexes are.
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Post by: Want2no on November 02, 2011, 09:05:00 AM
Bravo!  :clapper:    :clapper:   Nice picture BTW
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Post by: Pat B. on November 02, 2011, 09:57:00 AM
Way to go !!

That's a sweet looking bow .