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2020-2021 Trad Kill Pics

ricky racer said:
I got this guy this morning as he was chasing a doe. I tried to get him to stop with no luck. He did slow down briefly which is all it took. That's why I love instinctive shooting, I just came to anchor and the ol' computer did all of the calculations. I released the arrow and the 2 met. The shot looked low to me but in reality it couldn't have been better. I watched him die about 40 yards from where I shot him.
My bow is a 45# Samick Sage, shooting a Gold Tip shaft with a 125 grain Grizzly mounted on a 125 grain Ace Broadhead adapter.

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Nice deer man, congrats!
 
ricky racer said:
I got this guy this morning as he was chasing a doe. I tried to get him to stop with no luck. He did slow down briefly which is all it took. That's why I love instinctive shooting, I just came to anchor and the ol' computer did all of the calculations. I released the arrow and the 2 met. The shot looked low to me but in reality it couldn't have been better. I watched him die about 40 yards from where I shot him.
My bow is a 45# Samick Sage, shooting a Gold Tip shaft with a 125 grain Grizzly mounted on a 125 grain Ace Broadhead adapter.

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No time to video him coming in but I've got a shaky video of the recovery.

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EXCELLENT Rick!! Very nice buck! Congrats!
 
My 8pt trad kill is still alive but sore, I hope anyway. High shot at 5 yards slightly 1/4 away. Thought it was a kill shot. I was 100% confident I'd have him at 100 yards. Had a lot of arrow sticking out but felt it was lodged in the opposite shoulder and that was a dead deer. Stayed in tree for another hour while @denots hunted. Got down and didn't see blood so waited on the tracking crew to finish hunting and drive over, at least another hour and a half. Found arrow broke off at about 50 yards. Only about 8in of penetration. No blood until we stumbled on a drop at 200 yards on his trail. Then a drop every 10-20 yards to 300 where he had bedded down and we only found a drop of blood in the bed the size of a nickel. Bright red blood. No bubbles. No blood spray from mouth and nose. I felt my entry was behind the vertical leg line up. So after looking at anatomy pics, I should have missed his shoulder on the entry or went through the thin outer plate of it. Or more than likely being that the spine is so low at the shoulders, I went right under the spine, above lungs and hit vertebrae or ribs right at the vertebrae. Sad, sad, sad.... Hit the bottle that night.

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ricky racer said:
I got this guy this morning as he was chasing a doe. I tried to get him to stop with no luck. He did slow down briefly which is all it took. That's why I love instinctive shooting, I just came to anchor and the ol' computer did all of the calculations. I released the arrow and the 2 met. The shot looked low to me but in reality it couldn't have been better. I watched him die about 40 yards from where I shot him.
My bow is a 45# Samick Sage, shooting a Gold Tip shaft with a 125 grain Grizzly mounted on a 125 grain Ace Broadhead adapter.

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No time to video him coming in but I've got a shaky video of the recovery.

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Update: I pulled the card on one of my trail cameras today and found footage of the buck I shot on Nov. 12th of this year. I can identify him by his brow tines and the dark feet he had. This footage was taken about an hour before I shot him. The camera was in the neighboring wood lot about 400 yards from where I was hunting.

 
ricky racer said:
I got this guy this morning as he was chasing a doe. I tried to get him to stop with no luck. He did slow down briefly which is all it took. That's why I love instinctive shooting, I just came to anchor and the ol' computer did all of the calculations. I released the arrow and the 2 met. The shot looked low to me but in reality it couldn't have been better. I watched him die about 40 yards from where I shot him.
My bow is a 45# Samick Sage, shooting a Gold Tip shaft with a 125 grain Grizzly mounted on a 125 grain Ace Broadhead adapter.

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No time to video him coming in but I've got a shaky video of the recovery.

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Don't know how I missed this. Great buck Ricky, Congrats!
 
Got my first ever Trad kill last week! Didn't put any standards on the deer size when I'm hunting with the longbow. Shot him on public during our rifle season to make it even better. Setup on a known bed and about 1 hour before dark, 2 buck stood up at 40 yards. First one walked by at 15 yards. The 2nd did the same thing and I setup for that shot before he got there. Made a perfect heart/lungs shot. It was such a rush to watch that arrow fly true and hit its mark. I can see why trad hunting can be so addictive! He ran 40 yards and down he went! Also I was hanging from my new AH Merlin.

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