Well let's start off with opening weekend.
I slip in the stand and get up in the tree quiet as a church mouse and before I could even take my quiver off my bow their is 4 does at the feeder. Heck of a start I thought at the time. When I had just the right amount of shooting light out steps the big eight I've been all got and bothered about all summer.
14 yards quartering away I center my pin and let the grim reaper eat well it tried to eat because I center punched a rib or something and only got 2 inches of penetration a bent broadhead and 2 broke blades. I looked for blood for an hour and couldn't find anything but my arrow who had a little meat on it not much blood just on the tip and a tiny bit of hair. I'm not bad mouthing grim reaper It was just a fluke in my honest opinion because I've shot multiple deer with them and trust me they get the job done but it did make me second guess myself and make me sick to my stomach for hitting an animal and not harvesting it.
On to this weekend. We've been needing some meat in the freezer so I told dad id shoot a mature doe and get the job done. So this evening out to the woods I went with a g5 montec screwed in to my gold tip. I decided to shoot the montec because my roommate swears up and down about them but I'm still sticking with reaper just my .02 cents.
I get up in the tree and the does are at the feeder but all of them have fawns with them so I decided to wait to see if a more mature doe would step out and 30 minutes later here she comes. She wouldn't hop in the pin for some reason so I ranged her at 40 yards and let one fly and wam! She ducked a good foot and I spined her. She was screaming bloody murder and flailing around on the ground so I quickly reached for my quiver in a panic to grab another arrow and i knocked it to the ground. I quickly climbed down ran over to the flailing doe and bad to cut her throat and it kinda made me sick seeing her in pain and in panic for that long.
I talked to this old man who hints our land about it the only other bow hunter and he said that's one of the down sides of hunting with a sharp stick. I have been bow hunting for 5 years now and never have had a problem with humane kills but I've hit a slump I guess. Just figured id tell you guys on the GS it can happen to anybody.
Do y'all think that eight point will live or come back?
Sorry for the long read guys
I slip in the stand and get up in the tree quiet as a church mouse and before I could even take my quiver off my bow their is 4 does at the feeder. Heck of a start I thought at the time. When I had just the right amount of shooting light out steps the big eight I've been all got and bothered about all summer.
14 yards quartering away I center my pin and let the grim reaper eat well it tried to eat because I center punched a rib or something and only got 2 inches of penetration a bent broadhead and 2 broke blades. I looked for blood for an hour and couldn't find anything but my arrow who had a little meat on it not much blood just on the tip and a tiny bit of hair. I'm not bad mouthing grim reaper It was just a fluke in my honest opinion because I've shot multiple deer with them and trust me they get the job done but it did make me second guess myself and make me sick to my stomach for hitting an animal and not harvesting it.
On to this weekend. We've been needing some meat in the freezer so I told dad id shoot a mature doe and get the job done. So this evening out to the woods I went with a g5 montec screwed in to my gold tip. I decided to shoot the montec because my roommate swears up and down about them but I'm still sticking with reaper just my .02 cents.
I get up in the tree and the does are at the feeder but all of them have fawns with them so I decided to wait to see if a more mature doe would step out and 30 minutes later here she comes. She wouldn't hop in the pin for some reason so I ranged her at 40 yards and let one fly and wam! She ducked a good foot and I spined her. She was screaming bloody murder and flailing around on the ground so I quickly reached for my quiver in a panic to grab another arrow and i knocked it to the ground. I quickly climbed down ran over to the flailing doe and bad to cut her throat and it kinda made me sick seeing her in pain and in panic for that long.
I talked to this old man who hints our land about it the only other bow hunter and he said that's one of the down sides of hunting with a sharp stick. I have been bow hunting for 5 years now and never have had a problem with humane kills but I've hit a slump I guess. Just figured id tell you guys on the GS it can happen to anybody.
Do y'all think that eight point will live or come back?
Sorry for the long read guys
PWI! I may have been guilty a time or two...
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