I think most of us were victim to the lockdown!
I had my chance on Friday morning and shot one step too early on a mid 160's deer that strolled down my trail at 18 yards. I hit a limb and my arrow fell low and and back of the vitals, there was no blood on the arrow only white hair and fat (I belive I missed the guts). That was at 9:30.
I get back in my stand about 10:45 and see steady movment through the midday hours. At 1:45 I hear running and grunting to my west about 150 yards away, the grunting is desperate and ends up being another hunter that was a couple hundred yards away that had just climbed back up and wasn't ready. All of the sudden a monster buck runs around the corner coming straight at me. 24+ inches wide, heavy dark horns. He runs to the base of my tree directly behind me and I draw, he then takes a few more steps and I have the pin on him at 3 yards. There was a tiny vine that was between me and his vitals and after what happened earlier that morning I elected to be cautious and not shoot, that lasted for about 10 seconds and then he decided he was in a bad spot and didn't start walking but instead went for a bolt. He ran off never to be seen by me again.
My hunt was pretty much done right there as I saw a few more deer but nothing of quility. The action pretty much shut down after Friday midday.
It was fun, hopefully I'll get drawn again in the future.
I had my chance on Friday morning and shot one step too early on a mid 160's deer that strolled down my trail at 18 yards. I hit a limb and my arrow fell low and and back of the vitals, there was no blood on the arrow only white hair and fat (I belive I missed the guts). That was at 9:30.
I get back in my stand about 10:45 and see steady movment through the midday hours. At 1:45 I hear running and grunting to my west about 150 yards away, the grunting is desperate and ends up being another hunter that was a couple hundred yards away that had just climbed back up and wasn't ready. All of the sudden a monster buck runs around the corner coming straight at me. 24+ inches wide, heavy dark horns. He runs to the base of my tree directly behind me and I draw, he then takes a few more steps and I have the pin on him at 3 yards. There was a tiny vine that was between me and his vitals and after what happened earlier that morning I elected to be cautious and not shoot, that lasted for about 10 seconds and then he decided he was in a bad spot and didn't start walking but instead went for a bolt. He ran off never to be seen by me again.
My hunt was pretty much done right there as I saw a few more deer but nothing of quility. The action pretty much shut down after Friday midday.
It was fun, hopefully I'll get drawn again in the future.
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