After missing my opportunity with my first mule deer in western Kansas a few weeks ago..... damn limb!..... I connected with this white tail last Tuesday evening.
It was a classic rut hunt, you know, the one we all dream about? We thought the rut was over because we saw no activity all week.
I changed game plans and set up in a stand by a food plot where doe have been seen in the evenings.
I heard deer running down the ridge towards me and then ..... the grunts!!! The doe stopped about 45 yards away when the buck slowly aproached, grunting, kneck out and in a stiff legged trot. He got close, layed his head on her rump and off she went taking him away from me.
The running stopped then here she comes, down the creek right at me. She stopped at ten yards and here he comes!!
Again he layed his head on her rump and started to mount her! I have never seen "IT" actually happen in the wild before and was ready for the show..... but she had other things on her mind. We have all been there, hey guys????
She slowly turned and walked across the creek away from me. As he turned I drew. He stopped heading away from me and I let-her-fly!
It hit him just to the right of the spine and between the second and third rib from the back. It must have clipped a rib because the arrow swung up and exited the base of his kneck and above the heart.
He ran about 60 yards, stopped, fell and thats was it. In over 30 years of bowhunting I have never seen a blood trail like this one. It looked as if you had used a mop with a bucket of blood from where he was hit to where he droped.
I used a 100 grain Steel Force with the bleeder blades on a ACC from a 65 lb Mathews Rival Pro with a Muzzy Zero Effect rest and a PSE RS Glow site. I use a TRU Ball release.


He is a 6 X 5 with busted off G2, G3 and some of G5 on his left side. He has three kickers off his left base and one by the missing G3.
We estimated his live weight at 250 to 275 and age at 5 1/2.

[ 12-02-2003, 22:19: Message edited by: bo-n-aro ]

Sounds like a great hunt but I cannot see the pictures!

Well....... here are the pics, now if I knew how to inlarge the damn things!!???

Did you take the photos (or have someone do so)? Are they digital?
If so check the settings and make sure you are not looking at Thumbnails which are small images such as these that do not have a large file size.
If there are thumbnails then there is a folder with full size images somewhere. If not if you scanned them then your scanning software has a size that you will need to change. Try 300 - 400 or something similar but not over 800 -600 as a general rule.

Let me know if I can help in any other way.

[ 12-03-2003, 05:23: Message edited by: bo-n-aro ]

Congrats on that impressive animal!!!! Good Job!!!