Finally.

[shankspony]

Its been a few years now since i moved from compound to longbow.
While I have enjoyed many good hunts, and shot a range of pigs and goats and small game i had yet to take a deer of any species. partly because I soon realized after my first couple of atempts that deer, and especially fallow have an amazing ability to jump the string. With this in mind I limited myself to less than 20 yards and in the open country the fallow inhabit around here i can only just hint at the countless hours spent on my belly just beyond shooting range from deer.
Situations like this.
   

finally I sent an arrow away a few days ago. it was one of those shots you know you have done right. It felt and looked good as it flew. The buck didn't play ball though, catching the flight of the arrow he started to move at the last moment. The side on shot turned into a long raking one, though I still felt as he disappeared that I had him.
It took two days to find him, mostly due to me picking up the wrong set of buck tracks leaving the scene in the direction I thought he had gone. I knew he was down though and widened my search. Turned out he had doubled around behind me before crashing down the other side of the hill.
 

[fnshtr]

Congrats! That is a beautiful animal. Way to stay after him.

       

[Jon Kaw]

Congrats on your buck.  Glad you were able to recover him.

[cmh]

Congratulations Sir!!!!!      

[LookMomNoSights]

Very awesome!     Congrats to you Sir!

[Dogboy900]

Good stuff Shanks!

[daveycrockett]

Congrats!      

[Cavscout9753]

Great job on a great buck!!

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Awesome !!!!!

[Tater]

Congratulations,.....beautiful buck...!

[Joe2Crow]

Congratulations.  Very nice.  What gear were you using?

[shankspony]

Thanks guys.

Joe, bow is a Toelke Whip. 57#

Broadhead was a 170gr badger and arrow weight up around 640gr.

[Pine]

   

[Kopper1013]

Glad you stuck with it and found him, congrats

[Broken Quiver]

That Sir, is "Sealing the Deal". Way to stay after it.  

[Big Lefty]

Beautiful animal!  Congratulations!

[kadbow]

   

[Steve Jr]

Very nice congrats    

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Congrats! Neat looking animal!

Glad you found him and well done staying with the search.

[ranger 3]

Way to go, the first is always the hardest.