2012 was the last time I killed a deer with my bow. I've had some bad luck, with a couple lost animals and a few misses. After working on my bow, my luck has finally changed.

I hit the woods this morning looking for a new tree that was near a trail that I saw 6 deer on Friday morning. Planning on being set up by 6am, I had to wait for some light to see what was climbable. Dark and foggy, and a GPS that didn't put me in the right spot, I finally found a tree to climb. I was about 25 yards from my target tree.

I wasn't happy, with all the walking around and noise I made. But, I was finally in a tree. I pulled my bow up and got my arrow with tracker string already attached.
It was already 6:45. I looked down hill from my stand, from where I expect those 6 deer to come from and ...... hold on, I have to do something.    

Not fair!!!

 

So, right away I saw a deer around 100 yards out, walking my way. I got on my feet and waited. When it stopped and turned around to walk back down hill, I gave a bleat call. It stopped and looked my way. Here it comes. A few minutes later, I gave two more bleats. Now it's walking right at me. It stopped and stood broadside at 10 yards, with it's head and neck behind a tree.

Can't wait to here the rest of the story.

side note: consumer grade gps units get, at best, 20-30ft accuracy and that is in open field conditions. Once you bring them into any sort of cover, like trees, accuracy can quickly jump to 100ft+. GPS is line-of-sight with satellites, so more cover = less accuracy.

If you are using the unit to mark points and track-back to that point later...satellites are in different positions on different days, so each day, the unit will bring you to a different point....all in the general area of several hundred sq. ft.

As he was looking around, I saw the head turn away. I came to full draw, settled my newly added single sight pin low on his chest and the arrow was away. Immediately, string came out of my home made tracker like a big fish was on. I knew it was mine. After 60 yards, it just walked off, still pulling line. 120 yards, the tail was spinning like a propeller and down it went. Another minute of kicking and done.

The arrow was stuck in the ground and was broken.

 



 

Woohoo! Nice work & well done... Congratulations on a beautiful buck!

Nice buck!!!!

Congratulations

God bless,

Rodd

Well worth the wait!

Congrats, great buck!

Beautiful buck!!  Congrats!!

Great buck.       Congratulations.

Great Buck and story, congratulations.

Nice job.........      

I'd say the drought is over. Nice buck. I know it can be very frustrating at times but glad to see you stuck with it. Too easy to give up and return to the wheels, or, and I hate to even say it, go to the Xbow.  

nice buck , congrats

Nice buck. I really like the lighting in the second picture. That's a quality photo. Congratulations!

   

awesome!!!! congrats bud

Beautiful buck, well worth the wait!! Beautiful photography as well.    

Denny

Fantastic, congrats Brother. Love the big 6 points. Pretty rare!