I'll go.
That's my archery buck. Got him on Friday the 13th after my buddy filled his archery tag on Halloween. It was a double feature.
I shoot a Diamond Marquis with NAP KillZone on top of a GT Hunter.
I was on an all day sit and early in the day I watched a buck chase an estrous doe up into a little slashing of woods where she milled around and bedded down for a bit and then trotted off. Just after noon I'd moved into a tree stand with a good view of that slashing and I saw this buck enter the woods and I could tell he was following the exact path this doe has travelled earlier in the day. His path would not afford me a shot so I took a chance and gave a soft grunt with the grunt tube. It worked and he changed course and offered me a broadside shot at 30 yards. I clipped his heart and he ran about 100 yards across a field and piled up. Easy track and easy access for the truck!
Here he his moments before I got my chance (clock was not reset for standard time)
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Fast forward to this past Saturday and it's NY rifle opener. I'm in a Rhino ground blind on a gas pipeline with 300 yard shots north and south. I've got a Savage 111 in 30-06 with a Timney trigger shooting a 168g Nosler ballistic tip hand load off a Caldwell Dead Shot Field Pod rest.
Just before sunrise this joker pops out to the north at 70 yards and I put him down.
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Then around 11am a nice (to my eye) tall 8 pointer walks out about 200 yards to my south. The pipeline is only about 25 yards wide and he's not browsing so I have to make a quick decision. I put the first circle of my BDC reticle on the pocket and squeeze off a good shot. Here's a quick video of this guy from the night before I put my tag on him.
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I don't have much feedback from the shot, to me it looked almost like he hunched up a bit before he ran off, not a great confidence booster. But I crawl out of the blind and walk down the pipeline to where I think he was when I hit him and after a bit of pacing back and forth find the point of impact and there's great, bright red blood. I track the blood for all of 20 yards into some tall stuff and there he is. He's not a giant but he's my biggest and I'm very happy with him.
And here they are together in the truck
We do our own processing so I'll throw in a couple extra picture of the entry wound and some butterflied venison steaks!
Thanks for reading!