Ok this may be a little long winded but I'm a happy hunter. I have limited time to hunt this season because i'm finishing up school and I have a wife and 1year old boy at home and I work 40 hours a week. So I am not to depressed about being tagged out in mid Oct. This morning I decided to sit out for a couple hours and head down to school to take my mid term after. A front came through last night and I figured the cold weather would get some deer moving. This guy showed up at about 8:00 making a scrape fifty yards to the north on the treeline I was in. He lifted his head and I saw an antler and I thought "Shooter!" He started working his way along the treeline and I could see he was missing one side of his rack. He was a mature buck tho and I do not get many opportunities at deer like this. He was ten yards out from my tree line and even with me when I started to draw. I let down as he moved behind some brush and as he popped out on the other side I came to full draw. I was about to grunt to stop him when he hit my sent from where I walked in. It stopped him cold right in my sights! I focused on a spot up tight to his shoulder and began my mantra. I use the Joel Turner psychotrigger technique to beat target panic and let me tell you it works! I felt in complete control. When I reached my psychotrigger (bowhand pointer finger touching my thumb) I released and watched the arrow bury in the bucks chest. He bolted through the over grown farm field I was hunting and out of sight. I was confident on the shot so I waited ten minutes and started looking for blood. The grass was soaking wet and chest high and when I finally found blood it was barely visible and very watered down because of the wet grass. I tracked him for an hour on my hands and knees crawling through brush. It was a tough bloodtrail! he did not bleed much and I was becoming less and less confident on my shot. I eventually ran out of blood and began a body search in the tall grass and brush. I was about to back out and come back after my exam because I was running out of time when I saw a splotch of white up ahead! He was down after a hundred and fifty yard dash. I by this time I was running out of time so I ran back to get a knife, gutted him, took some pics and dragged him into the truck. I took a quick shower and shot off toward school. I dropped the buck off at the processor and made it to class with 3 minutes to Spare! Let me tell you I was much less confident on the results of my exam than I was on the shot I took earlier, but I grinned through the whole exam! I used a 43# 63" osage self bow I made this spring and a bamboo garden stake arrow with turkey feathers from a turkey my cousin shot last year, tipped with a stohs head.
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That is a super buck under the conditions you have going. And shot with a bow You made Yourself. A hunt to remember. Congrats
bretto
Nice!, I want to take a deer with a bow and arrow I built.
Congrats, great story and harvest! :thumbsup:
Congratulations and great story. Hope your exam turned out just as well.
Congrats!
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Way to go man! Nice buck
great job!!
Awesome just awesome. !
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Congrats on a well earned buck! :thumbsup:
Great job and nice looking buck!! :thumbsup:
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Lee, You da Man! I am happy for you and the fact you made the bow, arrow and the shot is a true accomplishment.
Wonderful job getting that buck. Congratulations.
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Absolutely amazing!!! Congrats!!!
That's an incredible story. Man, the stuff you have going on, I'd hate to see your to-do list each day.
Good work on fitting the hunting in there and picking the right time. Great shot with home made gear. Pretty inspiring stuff.
great job!!! memories for sure
Great Stuff,Congrats !!
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Wife
Baby
40hr work week
Student
Selfbow
You deserve that fine buck sir. Congratulations!
Way to go!
Congrats,
Bisch
Way to go! :clapper:
Excellent Job! Congrats on a fine buck!
Steve
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Great story made extra special with your homemade equipment. Congratulations!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Good Stuff right there! Congrats!!!
Thanks guys! Its been a good season! Now if I get some time here and there I can try to kill a turkey or some squirrels or something. :bigsmyl:
Way cool. :thumbsup:
great deer.RC
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That's crazy good right there man! Way to go!
Great deer and man I'm glad that I am not that busy! Lol!
Nice work and a good looking buck!
Awesome job! Way to get it done!!! :clapper:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Good luck with the turkeys.
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Well Done, Congrats! :thumbsup:
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CONGRATS and good shot!!!
Curious, was the other side broke off, or did not grow?
Dude !!!
That is just awesome..
Hope you did well on your midterm too..
Great accomplishment! Congrats.
That Sir is a real trophy in my eyes. Well done. :clapper:
Nice work Brother!
Awesome!! Congratulations! :shaka:
Very cool! Happy for ya!
That is great. It is a quite an experience, focusing on picking the spot then the release happens and the arrow goes where you are looking, isn't it ?
Great story and buck. You should be proud! :thumbsup:
Tom
Wow! With a self bow? Way to go!
Thanks guys! Had lots of good luck early this year! But like they say its better to be lucky than good! :bigsmyl:
Great job! With a homemade selfbow, man, that's a bucket list item there.
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Congratulations, that is a fine deer and a good looking bow.
Great story brutha! :clapper: Congrats!
Tell us more about your "Psycho trigger"
That's the kind of thing that 40 years later, you can look back and smile!
Congrats!
Nice buck!And with primitive equipment,awesome.
Great job, congrats!!