Wonderful hunt. I sat on a creek crossing near a beaver dam . I got on stand after about a half mile walk from the house. Its nice hunting from the house but rough. There are no roads and I have to cross a nasty clearcut..

 

The tall trees in the back are where I`m headed.I have to cross a small ridge...

 

And I hunt a creek crossing on the transition on the back side. This is one of the trails coming from the crossing...

 

I was on stand a very short while and heard a deer coming through water. She came out from my left headed to the ridge on my right. She stopped and I sent an arrow on the way. There was a loud crack and she ran hard. I hurt a lot of racket in a thicket and thought she went down then a few minutes later I heard walking in the water. This can`t be good I thought , so I slipped out and back to the house. I headed to town for a Hardees Bisquit...I`m addicted to`m and called my Buddy Chris and told him about waht happened. He reassurred me I`d find her.

 I got back home and after giving her afew hours I headed to the crossing. There was no blood where I shot her but I followed tracks a little ways and found this...


She hit a defined trail and I went on following tracks then found this...



 After I found the broadhead part of the arrow the blood was good..till I got here..bad news for a bloodtrail..




I waded in and picked up blood on an island and after a very tricky blood trail..she did a figure 8 I found her. Thank You Lord.

 Deer number 6 for the year #5 for my new Widow now named "Swamp Music".

Nice job RC  

Heck yeah....good going.

Whaaaaa.. feel sorry for your long walk!

Way to go on the tracking and nice deer RC!  

Did you shoot her Apache style-3 under?

I shot her split finger. I never could get the bow quiet enough to suit me.RC

You guys are wearing them out RC!  Good job on the tracking!

   

Very Nice!  

Excellent job RC. I know its hard to back out, but sometimes it`s the best course of action.

Congrats...as always, great pics, and story to boot.

Thanks for including the rest of us.  :D

Congratulations RC! Enjoyed the pictures and story.

awesome thanks for sharing

One man swamp population control.  Nice job.

That's the way to not give up on a trail.

Good shootin' bud!  

Way to go working out that trail. Nice deer

Good job RC. Always enjoyed your stories

Good shootin' and nice tracking job RC!

SWAMP MUSIC - what a great name for a longbow!

Shoot straight, Shinken

A shooting machine, Congrats!