Last Minute Buck

[Bobby Urban]

Have had a strange season with a couple of uncharateristic misses and lost my best buck ever in a monster swamp I hunt around.  I had been seeing multiple bucks from spikes to 8pts every time out but wanted a big one.  Last night I decided to take the next racked buck opportunity because rifle season starts Monday and the red coat army makes buck hunting tough in Michigan with a bow in December.  I knew this would be my last real evening of hunting undisturbed deer for 2010.  At 4:30 this fella walks out and gives me a 20yard shot quartering away and I was fortunate enough to make good.  I then look at my phone to check the weather and see there is a 40% chance of rain.  Stuggling with what to do it starts spitting at about 5pm and so I climb down to see what the sign looks like.  Good news - imediate blood and lots of it with a football size pile of red foam.  I decide to try and find him right then and not risk the rain.  About 40 yards into the swamp, following great blood, I bump a deer that charges deeper into the suck hole.  Dog gone, I cannot believe this buck is still alive and really cannot believe I was so impatient!!!  Back out quietly and risk the rain.  After a tough night I discover it did rain but very little.  I get back into the same tree and wait for thie lights to come on.  Planned to sit until 8am but by 7:30 I could not take it anymore.  I go back to the original blood and it is almost gone, argggg - I am getting worried but head to the last spot of blood.  There is a little blood left to track but not much and another 20 yards in I find a jelly ball of blood in his bed where I must have pushed him last night.  After the bed I start looking in the direction I heard the deer run and cannot find anything.  After a couple hours of grid searching in the direction of travel where I place a small piece of TP every 10 yards or so to know where I had been I go back to the last blood.  Totally frustrated and loosing faith I start going in the oposite direction I had been looking and whola, there he is, stone dead!  I was 10' from him many times and he was dead before I got out of my tree.  Must have been another deer that blew outa there last night.  I was so grateful.  thanks for listening.
By the way - I got to try out my new Boker carbon trapper I traded a dozen arrows for with another Tradganger.  Worked well!

[Huntschool]

Good story...  Good deer, congrats

[rastaman]

   

[Tom]

Way to stick with the trailing, know sometimes it is frustrating but when you find the pot of gold at the end it is worth. Good job.

[mcgroundstalker]

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[Benny Nganabbarru]

[ishoot4thrills]

Nice buck! Way to stay with it. I doubt I would have had the patience that you did on the evening you shot him, with it spittin' rain and all. Good job.  

[BCWV]

   

[Bobby Urban]

funny thing is that if the other deer did not spook out of there I would have kept tracking and found him in another couple minutes last night but I had no idea he was so close and DEAD!

[Huntrdfk]

Way to go Bobby, congrats on a nice buck    


David

[Darryl Quidort]

Congrats, Bobby. Way to stick with it! Great ending to another bow season.

[deertraks]

[Wannabe1]

Great story and congratulations!      

[Carcajou]

with a shot like that, he was'nt goin' very far...great job!

[Chris Surtees]

   

[Irish Archer]

Congrats to ya. Nice buck.

[kennyb]

nice buck, bobby! congratulations!

[Follower]

   

[DannyBows]

Way to go!  

[SS Snuffer]

Way to go!