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Started by swampdrummer, July 28, 2012, 10:22:00 PM

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swampdrummer

July 28, 2012, 10:22:00 PM
Our archery season opened today. I sat for a couple of hours this morning before the heat and the skeeters drove me back into the AC.

Had a good rain storm come through this afternoon and as soon as it cleared, I was back in the stand.
About 7 pm I had a funky horned, 3 on one side, spike on the other buck come in from the exact opposite direction I was expecting them to come from! Dead downwind. He stomped and snorted and left only to return 5 minutes later. He stopped broadside at about 11 yards. I shot UNDER him! GRRRRR! First shot of the season and I blow it. He left with a quickness and I got down to retrieve my arrow and double check for blood. Clean miss and I climb my disgruntled butt back in the tree.

Not 5 minutes later a little button buck comes in and blows out when he hit where I was standing just a few minutes prior.

I look out into the pasture to the south of our property and danged if there isn't a parade of young bucks wandering through! 5 all together. Everything from a pretty decent 6 point down to a one horned spike.

They all jump the fence and head my way. This 4 point wasn't the biggest by any means. He was just the first one to stand still in the right spot! With the wind swirling like it was. I figured I better shoot while the shooting was good!

He ducked and I shot high this time. Spined him and he dropped on the spot. I put another through his lungs and it was over quickly.
 
You know its hot out when the air in your backpack is cool enough from being in the house that when you take the camera out, it fogs up!
Love the dark horns on the bucks around here.
 

Now I can settle down and be a little picky about what I shoot.
Back Tension BEFORE Back Strap !

moleman

#1
July 28, 2012, 10:26:00 PM
Congrats! Awesome way to start the season.

Gen273

#2
July 28, 2012, 10:28:00 PM
Congrats!
Jesus Saves (ROM 10:13)

#3
July 28, 2012, 10:29:00 PM
Congrats! You guys are lucky to have deer season open in July. I have to wait till around Oct 1st!

Bisch

Richie

#4
July 28, 2012, 10:30:00 PM
Congrats.  :thumbsup:
Once a Marine always a Marine, Semper Fi

Rob W.

#5
July 28, 2012, 10:30:00 PM
Congrats on a fine opener!
This stuff ain't no rocket surgery science!

Bud B.

#6
July 28, 2012, 10:33:00 PM
Sounds like you're in a good spot!!

Congratulations!
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"You can learn more about deer hunting with a bow and arrow in a week, than a gun hunter might learn all his life." ----- Fred Bear

Fletcher

#7
July 28, 2012, 10:34:00 PM
Congrats, Drummer!  Great critter.   :thumbsup:
Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgement.

"The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing."

"An archer doesn't have to be a bowhunter, but a bowhunter should be an archer."

Rick Butler

#8
July 28, 2012, 10:36:00 PM
Congrats! That's a fine deer.  :thumbsup:
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"- Thoreau
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ron w

#9
July 28, 2012, 10:41:00 PM
Cool....you still shooting the Kanati??   :thumbsup:
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

iohkus

#10
July 28, 2012, 10:42:00 PM
Congratulations..... we have another month and a half to go here in Missouri.
Hmmmmm. I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm
not sure that what you heard is what I actually meant!

kennym

#11
July 28, 2012, 10:53:00 PM
Congrats!!  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
Stay sharp, Kenny.

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Shedrock

#12
July 28, 2012, 10:55:00 PM
Good job!
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Pope and Young
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Colorado Traditional Archers Society
and Life member of Bowhunters Of Wyoming

Hot Hap

#13
July 28, 2012, 10:59:00 PM
Congradulations-Hap

ishoot4thrills

#14
July 28, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Cool! Well done, brother.
58" JK Traditions Kanati Longbow
Ten Strand D10 String
Kanati Bow Quiver
35/55 Gold Tip Pink Nugents @ 30"
3 X 5" Feathers
19.9% FOC
49# @ 26.75"
165 FPS @ 10.4 GPP (510 gr. hunting arrow)
171 FPS @ 9.7 GPP (475 gr. 3D arrow)
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Day Dreamer

#15
July 28, 2012, 11:23:00 PM
:thumbsup:

Stump73

#16
July 28, 2012, 11:23:00 PM
Congrats! I can't wait until Sept,p when our deer season opens. Threads like these gets me wound up and ready to go.
BigJim Thunderchild 54" 52# @ 28"
BigJim Thunderchild 56" 42# @ 28"

GRINCH

#17
July 28, 2012, 11:27:00 PM
:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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RainyDayBows

#18
July 29, 2012, 12:14:00 AM
Congrats thanks for sharing .

rbcorbitt

#19
July 29, 2012, 07:15:00 AM
Great way to start your season!  Can't wait until NC season starts in early September!

Congratulations!
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