Ohio Doe 10/2/15

[Claym]

Last Friday was already gonna be a good enough day with my wife and I set to close on our house and 65 acre farm in the heart of southeastern Ohio at noon that day. Well since I work four 10's & have Friday's off, I figured why not sneak out for a morning hunt before hand. We have about 5-6 huntable acres behind our current house & are surrounded by rolling cattle pasture & timber. While it's not a ton of ground, there's a lot of deer using the area & you can't beat walking out your door to hunt.

I was set up in a group of catalpa trees on a small secondary ridge below a pond that's kind of an intersection area between a mowed trail and multiple deer trails/funnels. Right after shooting light I had close movement from my right. A large doe appeared from behind the catalpa tree in front of me. She was 10 yards at the most and I had a good hole through the branches to her vitals.

Just as I hit full draw, she took a step forward and my tunnel was gone. I let down and urged her to take a few more steps to clear the branches completely. Of course, she picked this time to stand stock still and stair down the trail for what felt like 5 minutes.

After taking a few steps closer, she finally turned and walked out from the cover at only 6 steps from my tree! When she turned her head slightly away from me, I was able to ease the string back, hit anchor, and send the arrow on its way.

The shot was high, but did the trick. After a 40 yard dash and tumble, she was down for good.

She ran towards the house, which made for an even shorter drag     :D  

 

Even got my almost 6 month old german shorthair "Whiskey" in on the tracking job. He did well for his first real track, but with the high shot there wasn't much blood for him to go on. Still looks promising though.

 

With the bag limit in my county down to two this year, I'm gonna spend the rest of the season hunting for a mature SE Ohio buck out at our new place.

Thanks for reading and good hunting everyone    

[Possum Head]

Congrats! A 4-10 work schedule is something I dearly miss. Glad you took advantage of it. Be sure and give ole Whiskey a bite of back strap. He's a beautiful hound.

[Fletcher]

Congratulations Clay!  That is a hoss of a doe.  FWIW, my wife is from Barnesville.

[Ryan Sanpei]

Awesome! Well Done Clay and congrats on the new house!!!

Way to go!

Congrats,

Bisch

[KyStickbow]

Congrats...on the deer and the new house!

[Keith Zimmerman]

Congrats all the way around to u and Whiskey.

[SAM E. STEPHENS]

Well done , Congrats sir....

,,,Sam,,,

[wooddamon1]

   

[A.S.]

   

[VA Elite]

job well done sir!

[Jwilliam]

Nice one !!!    


Bill

[Homey88]

Congrats to you! Great deer!

[fnshtr]

Congrats! I'm just across the river from you.

[23feetupandhappy]

Good lookin Doe
Good lookin Bow
Good Lookin Hound
Nothin better then walking out the back door to hunt    
           

[KentuckyTJ]

Fantastic and congrats on a mature doe kill Brother!

[fishone]

Nice doe and a great looking german short-hair.

[DDawg]

Nice Doe!  Congrats

[johnnyk71]

big, healthy doe! that thing would be a monster for down here.

[South MS Bowhunter]