Climbed on a beautiful ridge this evening. It was a bit humid but it was good to be hunting. I have been busy at work and doing other stuff and have not hunted a lot the last few weeks. Its a blessing to have a job so I ain`t complaining.
I put a trail cam on this ridge last Wednesday over a scrape figuring I would get some night time pics and much to my surpise when I checked it this morning there were a few daytime pics.
I got geared up and stepped out in the yeard to check the wind. With a wind from the North I have a very good branch to hunt on the other side of a "sock" field...
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But this evenings wind would put me on a post/live oak ridge deer were feeding on. I climbed about 150 yards from my scrape where I had the camera and got these pics from the last couple of days...
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I climbed a tree and settled in for the evening...
A pic from my perch..
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This is actually an Island but with the swamp being so dry it is only cut on one side by water. On really wet years this is a very hot spot for deer and is also where I killed my "Hawked" Gobbler this past Spring.
As it got late Squirrels began to bark to the South and I could feel something was about to happen. I stood up and got ready but after several minutes I began to think it must just be talkative treerats but then spotted some movement and a doe was coming. at about 20 yards she turned and angled towards me then off to my right. No shot again...I have had a lot of hunts like that this year. Just as she hooked around some palmettos and was almost out of hearing I looked to my left and a deer was standing there. Fell out of the sky I think becuse I know I should have heard it . i`ve only killed two der this year and need to fill the freezer so no matter what size or sex if it got close enough it would get attacked by a shark.
At 13 yards the deer turned sideways to go through the palmettos and the arrow was gone. looked far back but the der gave me a favorable move and whrled away on impact allowing my poor shot to angle forward a bit.I listened as it ran and got a compass bearing. I knew my shot was bad so I climbed down and came home. I gave the deer about 4 hours and took up a surprisingly good blood trail for a shot to far back. After a bit over an hour and about 400 yards I found the deer.
The arrow had stayed in and the deer never bedded as I thought it would with time. I got liver and not just paunch and the deer had been down for a while as it was stiff. The Big Simmons paid off again . Shots like this one is the reason I shoot big broadheads most of the time.Thank you Lord for the third deer of the year.RC
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Don`t know if you can tell it but the nighttime trail cam pic is two small bucks butting heads.I think the daytime pic is the buck I killed.RC
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good job. :thumbsup:
Way to go. :thumbsup: He looks like the one in the picture.Keep after them.
Way to go RC!
Congratulations RC!
Congrats.Thanks for the story and pics.
Great shot on that guy , Congrats sir........
,,,Sam,,,
Great story RC! Congrats on another harvest.
Glad to see you back out working that Mohawk!
Great job, Robert. Glad you were able to get some time to hunt and get back to population control.
Congrats RC ! :campfire:
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Great job and a great looking longbow. What are you shooting there?
K.C.
awsome.
congrats,nice picts,I need to start taking more
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WAY TO GO RC!
Excellent shot with that Mohawk and nice follow-up!
Enjoy the feast!
Shoot straight, Shinken
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Way to go RC! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Congrats!
Awesome !
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Cool story, nice job RC.
Bob.
Nice shooting RC!
R.C. is at it again. Way to go. Deer better watch out when this guy is in the woods. :thumbsup:
Congrats! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Congrats RC. She will have some tasty backstraps for sure!
RC, you da MAN! Great shot.
Good going RC! :thumbsup:
I hope to do some shark testing this weekend.
Way to go!
Man those sharks are like hittin em with an axe!
I think its time to look into those. Nasty little buggers!
Nice RC
Great job RC!
Congrats. God Bless
Congrats Robert :thumbsup:
Good job, RC!
Good job RC I was wondering where you were, last year you had 13 deer by now. :p
Dont many deer get by you if they come into range. If I could shoot like you and Chris Spikes I would have killed as many deer as Warren Womack!
Congrats on a fine buck for the freezer
real nice shooting rob :clapper:
Thanks fellers. It was a poor shot made better by the deer turning at the shot and a Big broadhead.
I was shooting my Mohawk longbow 64" and 47 @ 27. Simmons tiger shark.
Rod, Chris Spikes is a far better shot than me.I seem to do good if I can keep them under 15 yards. RC
Congrats!