Last November, I was lucky enough to be in line to take the traveling bow Sacajawea out and hunt with her during the best part of our deer season up here. Up until that point, the season had been fairly slow, but I was optimistic in that something would show up sooner or later knowing what I'd gotten on camera throughout the early season.
Anyhow fast forward to November 7th, and after sitting in a literal downpour all day, the weather broke and at 1:45ish that afternoon I got a chance at one of my target bucks. I felt like I did every thing in my power correctly, but the buck dropped a ton causing me to hit him high in the shoulder. The hit would result in little blood loss, a broken arrow with the broadhead still in him and my heart broken to pieces like a kid that just got dumped on prom day.......
I searched high and low for him both during season and after, never getting any more pictures of him that I was aware of. I did pick up a shed I thought was potentially his, but it had a big time broken of so I couldn't say for sure it was his.
Fast forward to this year, I finally got out to the place to put a few cameras out a couple weeks back and went to check them today. Low and behold, one of the first deer to show their faces...
I was shocked to see how big he'd gotten, but I honestly was more happy to see that he made it to live another day and I didn't lose such an awesome critter. Now, I'm sure hoping he gives me another chance so I can maybe retrieve my broad head out of his back from last year!!
Last years pic
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Anyhow fast forward to November 7th, and after sitting in a literal downpour all day, the weather broke and at 1:45ish that afternoon I got a chance at one of my target bucks. I felt like I did every thing in my power correctly, but the buck dropped a ton causing me to hit him high in the shoulder. The hit would result in little blood loss, a broken arrow with the broadhead still in him and my heart broken to pieces like a kid that just got dumped on prom day.......
I searched high and low for him both during season and after, never getting any more pictures of him that I was aware of. I did pick up a shed I thought was potentially his, but it had a big time broken of so I couldn't say for sure it was his.
Fast forward to this year, I finally got out to the place to put a few cameras out a couple weeks back and went to check them today. Low and behold, one of the first deer to show their faces...
I was shocked to see how big he'd gotten, but I honestly was more happy to see that he made it to live another day and I didn't lose such an awesome critter. Now, I'm sure hoping he gives me another chance so I can maybe retrieve my broad head out of his back from last year!!
Last years pic
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