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Hunting yesterday with bow. At 8 am I saw a doe in the thicket 30 yds away, looking behind her to my right. I turn and here comes a nice shooter buck. I had about 10 seconds to think "shooter!", grab the bow, bleat at him 3 times to get him to stop, and then YANK the shot at 27 yds. Heard the dreaded watermelon sound. Gave him 2 hours and then slowly trailed the blood until it started thinning out. I slowly backed out and as I did, I saw him get up and slowly walk down the hill side. Came back at 3:00 and slowly picked up the trail from where he was bedded. Finally saw him laying almost belly up down in a ravine. His head was propped up against a sapling. Dead deer! My buddy went back to get the quad, and I worked my way down the hill. Got to 20 yards away and his back legs kicked, he struggled, got up, crashed across a dry ditch, and stumbled off. To say I was sick is understating things... Only got down to 52 degrees overnight. So I finally found him around 9:00 this morning. Smelled him 50 yards away...
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Congrats, glad you found him.
Where was he hit?
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Congrats, glad you found him.
Where was he hit? Gutshot right. glad you found him
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glad you found him to nice a Buck to lose . Congratulation
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Nice buck.
Looks like hit on RH side and exit is on LH side in front of rear leg........
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Opposite. Hit him in back left ham and it exited out the right side back of stomach. Slick tricks did the job on a bad shot...
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Figured it was an exit hole, being as all the stuff hanging out of it........
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Well done, Marty! Congrats on a nice buck.
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Figured it was an exit hole, being as all the stuff hanging out of it........ That's actually a leaf in the pic.
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Your back yard deck is a safer shot for you, glad you found the buck.
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“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.” ALDO LEOPOLD
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FINE buck, congrats Kimber7man. Gunner
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nice buck and great story! Glad you found him. I lost one this year it really sucks.
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congrats! At least someone in IN knows how to hunt deer...as I sure don't.
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great buck....congrats. Been a weird bow season here in Kansas so far, hope it improves this weekend.
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Ahhh, such a beautiful sight. Nice one and congrats.
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