Knothead and I hunted all of Thanksgiving week. We were sitting in my rifle blind and he spotted a deer and said “look at that tall deer”. He snuck behind a mesquite by the time I saw him and he looked tall at first glance. He finally came out and I told him he was a cool looking cull buck. We watched him for about 20 minutes and he eased off between the senderos with a doe. About 30 minutes later, he dame back out and made his way to the side of the feeder. There were does between the feeder and the pond and I knew he’d make his way towards them. I asked Knothead “do you want to shoot him”? He about jumped out of his chair and said “really”?!?! I told him to shhh and get his rifle ready. The buck came out towards us and turned broadside at about 130 yards. I told him to lay him down. The shot rang out and the buck slightly hunched up and went about 30 yards, still standing. I was thinking he may have nicked him or made (another) gut shot. I told him to jack another shell in and shoot him again. The shot rang out and the buck hunched up good and tried to get his front end back under him when he made his 20 yard death run and crashed. After the high fives and hugs we gave him some time and went to ground check him. When we ground checked him, we saw what appeared to be only one bullet hole, that got me to scratching my head. When we skinned him, we saw what happened. Knothead (the gut shot king) had double tapped the deer right in the sweet spot!! He was 5.5 years old. Score never reflects character but we put a tape on him anyway. He gross green scored 102 4/8. 14” inside spread and his G2’s were 9 2/8 and 7”. Lots of character for a cull 7 point.
He also made a great 170 yard shot on a doe
Now this is the reason for the title. I saw a doe with what looked like a scar on her side. Once she turned around I saw a scar on the opposite side. I shot her in the neck and put her down. Sure enough, someone had shot her with an arrow and she lived. The arrow appears to have went thru one lung with the amount of scar tissue joining the lung to the inside of the rib cage.
No one on our lease has shot and lost a doe so she came from the neighbors property. She had “summer teeth” and was over 8.5 years old. I couldn’t see any sign of busted ribs from the arrow so it could have zipped straight thru between the ribs.
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He also made a great 170 yard shot on a doe
Now this is the reason for the title. I saw a doe with what looked like a scar on her side. Once she turned around I saw a scar on the opposite side. I shot her in the neck and put her down. Sure enough, someone had shot her with an arrow and she lived. The arrow appears to have went thru one lung with the amount of scar tissue joining the lung to the inside of the rib cage.
No one on our lease has shot and lost a doe so she came from the neighbors property. She had “summer teeth” and was over 8.5 years old. I couldn’t see any sign of busted ribs from the arrow so it could have zipped straight thru between the ribs.
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