soooooAny update?
soooooAny update?
Got him. Details later on. Back in a tree.Any update?
For reelz? That's the update???Got him. Details later on. Back in a tree.
What team 7 has rights to quick updates?For reelz? That's the update???
Kudos to you for staying after him that long and making sound choices along the way. Great buck and great story!Today was harrowing, but ended really well.
At dawn my brother in law and I got back on the blood trail. Within 50 yards of last blood we bumped him… after some discussion we decided to stay on his trail and try and catch up to him. As we moved along the track the idea felt more and more like the right choice. In motion he was bleeding a lot and in his beds he seemed to be clotting. There appeared to be blood coming from both sides of his body. He absolutely wouldn’t go uphill. He was bedding every 100 yards or less.
After 2 miles I finally got a chance to finish him. He was bedded - his head was bobbing from blood loss. So I circled around him at 10 yards and put an arrow in his heart. He went from unconscious to on his feet in a split second. He turned toward me like he was gonna charge, then turned the other way and did 50 yards in 3 bounds and crashed.
Admittedly there was definitely some ground shrinkage. But the relief of recovering him and having meat in the freezer far outweighed everything else.
The icing on the cake - we were about 2 miles away from the best route to drag him out. So I climbed the mountain back to the truck, drove around to a ranger station and found a kind ranger who unlocked the gate and let me drive right to my buck!
So the shot was low. It hit the top of his near side shank and also passed through his opposite side hand bones. Major arteries were cut and bled heavy, bones were broken, and joints displaced. Had we given up on the trail his wounds would have been fatal - the coy-wolves would have got him sometime over the next few days.
Congrats on the deer man! What Hoyt is that?Today was harrowing, but ended really well.
At dawn my brother in law and I got back on the blood trail. Within 50 yards of last blood we bumped him… after some discussion we decided to stay on his trail and try and catch up to him. As we moved along the track the idea felt more and more like the right choice. In motion he was bleeding a lot and in his beds he seemed to be clotting. There appeared to be blood coming from both sides of his body. He absolutely wouldn’t go uphill. He was bedding every 100 yards or less.
After 2 miles I finally got a chance to finish him. He was bedded - his head was bobbing from blood loss. So I circled around him at 10 yards and put an arrow in his heart. He went from unconscious to on his feet in a split second. He turned toward me like he was gonna charge, then turned the other way and did 50 yards in 3 bounds and crashed.
Admittedly there was definitely some ground shrinkage. But the relief of recovering him and having meat in the freezer far outweighed everything else.
The icing on the cake - we were about 2 miles away from the best route to drag him out. So I climbed the mountain back to the truck, drove around to a ranger station and found a kind ranger who unlocked the gate and let me drive right to my buck!
So the shot was low. It hit the top of his near side shank and also passed through his opposite side hand bones. Major arteries were cut and bled heavy, bones were broken, and joints displaced. Had we given up on the trail his wounds would have been fatal - the coy-wolves would have got him sometime over the next few days.View attachment 95091
That’s an RX5.Congrats on the deer man! What Hoyt is that?
YESWhat team 7 has rights to quick updates?
Thanks for that acknowledgement. Seeing lawn boy earlier that day really messed with my head. I’m glad I had the sense to put an arrow in this deer later that day - when it comes down to it, I’m a meat hunter and a new hunter with a lot to learn. I really appreciate the advice that @dalton916 gave in the “certified killers” thread - that wisdom insured meat in my freezer, an incredible learning experience and a day of shared excitement with my brother in law. That’s worth as much or more than killing a trophy class buck. Thank you sir. Everything lined up Monday and I saw 3 bucks - but that may not happen again this season and damned if I’m gonna eat tag soup. And I have one more buck tag and a doe tag in Mass and a buck tag in NH. So the hunt continues and now I can continue to hunt lawn boy without the pressure of success and a full freezer hanging over me.Well done , very happy for you!
it is an accomplishment to see deer regularly in MA , way to stay on the track and stay in the woods in Nov.
I’ve got two full day hunts about to start in one of my best spots. Should be fun!!