Broke a cedar arrow this morning!!!!

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I promise not to drag this out... enough of that this morning!

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Sort of looked like a monkey in the tree stand this morning. I took the advice of others on here and bought some Halloween makeup last night. At 97 cents a tube it's hard to beat.

Anyway... I had seen a nice buck from this stand last Thursday morning and hadn't gotten a chance to hunt it since... until today.

At 8:30 am a real nice buck came by. I grunted him in toward me three different times, but he just wouldn't commit to coming close enough.

At 9:30 I was wondering what was going on... only the one buck and no does so far. Last Thursday it was like being in a zoo... deer all around me all morning.

I was hunting over a few persimmon trees in a "saddle" that was well used. Where I live the hunting is pretty simple... in the mornings you get between the bedding areas up in the hollows and the fields in the bottoms.

At 9:40am I looked to my left and there he was... not the big one, but a nice young buck. It had rained during the night and I didn't hear him come in at all.

I managed to get into position to shoot as he stood 10 yards away facing me but intently looking up the ridge where the bigger buck had went earlier.

I had to lean toward him, uphill, in order to get my lower bow limb to clear the climbing stand I was in.

Once I got it clear of the stand I picked a spot as he turned slightly to my right. It was a relatively steep angle, but I was sure I could put one through the vitals... I released and watched as the arrow hit where I was looking.

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I watched him bolt around me, running a semi-circle down the bank and toward a nasty, brush choked ravine below me.

I went back to the house and charged my camera battery for an hour before going back up and taking up the trail.

The first blood I found was about 25 yards from where I had shot him. It wasn't much... and had me a little concerned. I knew the arrow did not pass completely through, but I prayed that it had punched through so that I would have a good trail to follow.

Here is the first blood... a couple of small spots.

[Ric O'Shay]

And now, the rest of the story........

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10 yards later I found this. His trail was easy to follow as he was going down a very steep embankment. Now the blood trail picked up to the point that a blind man could follow it.

That is about the time that I stopped to consider how the trailing that follows the shot really adds a lot to the hunt... almost as great as the shot itself.

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Another 10 or so yards and I found the feathered end of my arrow as seen above... and a little further the "working end". It was suspended in the brush just as it looks here.

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Now I KNEW I had two holes!

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Finally... the end of the trail.

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No disappointment here about the broken arrow. This is the second deer this year for the arrow and broadhead. The broadhead is a MA-II.

I would be very happy to take only two deer with each arrow/BH... 24 to the dozen... Oh yeah!

Well... turkey season is in this week, so I'm off to the blind.

Good hunting all!

[b.glass]

Very nice! Way to go!

[saltwatertom]

       

[elkken]

Congrats ... very nice deer

[Brianlocal3]

Outstanding

[wetfeathers]

Congratulations.  Nice photos.

[choochoou]

It never gets old !

[stillhunter]

I thought you had magnustized him but instead a MA-II! Great hunt! JOB12:7-10

[joe ashton]

   

[Bernie B.]

Congrats!  Nice pictures and story!  Isn't this fun!!!    

Bernie

[MnFn]

Well done all the way around. Congratulations!