trailblazer75
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Had two solid days to hunt the 6th and 7th with an all day sit Saturday and a half day Sunday morning.
Setup on a high flat top ridge, in a saddle. I took my saddle up there and found my first tree after walking in about a mile. Setup and saw this guy cruising. Completely unresponsive to grunts, rattling and even a snort wheeze. He was just out of my comfortable range at 43 yards.
I watched where he went and setup over the trail he used.
Saw him again Saturday evening and didn’t have a shot.
I hunted the same tree Sunday and he came by at about 50 yards and this time he went by but came back in when I snort wheezed at him.
Shot him in his right shoulder, slightly quartering away at 32 yards. Which is 2 yards over what I typically limit myself to. I felt confident in this shot because he was alert but unaware of my own presence.
I shot him through the scapula on the right side at a steep downward angle, penetrating the lungs and out his left side low, toward his “elbow”.
The deer left out hauling the mail and not leaving a drop of blood to track by, which I attribute to my arrow still being in the wound.
I tracked for about 50 yards and finding no blood decided to back out and wait. I did the prudent thing and called a dog and waited 7 hours. Needless to say I was on pins and needles the entire time.
We climbed back up the ridge and cut a couple half moons trying to cut sign or find the trail and after about 15 minutes the dog had the trail and took us straight to the deer. I stayed back and looked for blood and never found it, even with the lower side wound on the exit. I still chalk that up to the arrow being inside the wound with both ends broken off. But nonetheless, a happy ending to the story. Having made three strategic moves to get on this deer really paid off and highlights the importance of the mobility I’ve adopted in my hunting style.
I’d say the deer was dead within a minute but I know deep down that backing out and waiting was the smarter thing to do without a full pass through and with no blood to go on.
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Setup on a high flat top ridge, in a saddle. I took my saddle up there and found my first tree after walking in about a mile. Setup and saw this guy cruising. Completely unresponsive to grunts, rattling and even a snort wheeze. He was just out of my comfortable range at 43 yards.
I watched where he went and setup over the trail he used.
Saw him again Saturday evening and didn’t have a shot.
I hunted the same tree Sunday and he came by at about 50 yards and this time he went by but came back in when I snort wheezed at him.
Shot him in his right shoulder, slightly quartering away at 32 yards. Which is 2 yards over what I typically limit myself to. I felt confident in this shot because he was alert but unaware of my own presence.
I shot him through the scapula on the right side at a steep downward angle, penetrating the lungs and out his left side low, toward his “elbow”.
The deer left out hauling the mail and not leaving a drop of blood to track by, which I attribute to my arrow still being in the wound.
I tracked for about 50 yards and finding no blood decided to back out and wait. I did the prudent thing and called a dog and waited 7 hours. Needless to say I was on pins and needles the entire time.
We climbed back up the ridge and cut a couple half moons trying to cut sign or find the trail and after about 15 minutes the dog had the trail and took us straight to the deer. I stayed back and looked for blood and never found it, even with the lower side wound on the exit. I still chalk that up to the arrow being inside the wound with both ends broken off. But nonetheless, a happy ending to the story. Having made three strategic moves to get on this deer really paid off and highlights the importance of the mobility I’ve adopted in my hunting style.
I’d say the deer was dead within a minute but I know deep down that backing out and waiting was the smarter thing to do without a full pass through and with no blood to go on.
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