misANTHrope
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And with a bow no less. Did a couple days of hunting back at my roommate's home last season, and only saw one doe that I passed on. I wouldn't have passed on her had I known she was all I'd see- but I forgot to bring my crystal ball along, so oh well. We'd been out to the local public game lands once a week ago, and I saw eight does and fawns, but wasn't able to get a shot (I learned that a baseball cap is not compatible with a bow).
So we went back out again this past Monday- I got in the same spot, but a different tree. I was up in the tree, with my bow still on the ground, when a six-point buck walked by about 30 yards out. All I could do was look at him with the bow 15 feet below me. Once I got everything up, it was about an hour before two does walked. The first and larger of the two knew something was up and actually ran a bit when she got downwind of me, but the second never twitched. She kept walking as she had been, and when she got in an open spot, I took the shot. I had the bow dead-on at 17 yards, and the longest I'd shot was 25, and I figured the doe to be about 25 yards away. So I set the pin high up on the chest cavity- ended up putting the arrow really low in the chest, but it took care of her just fine. I paced the shot off at 30 yards- I need to work on my range estimation. Good thing I held high enough, or I might have shot under her.
We're going back out again next week.
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So we went back out again this past Monday- I got in the same spot, but a different tree. I was up in the tree, with my bow still on the ground, when a six-point buck walked by about 30 yards out. All I could do was look at him with the bow 15 feet below me. Once I got everything up, it was about an hour before two does walked. The first and larger of the two knew something was up and actually ran a bit when she got downwind of me, but the second never twitched. She kept walking as she had been, and when she got in an open spot, I took the shot. I had the bow dead-on at 17 yards, and the longest I'd shot was 25, and I figured the doe to be about 25 yards away. So I set the pin high up on the chest cavity- ended up putting the arrow really low in the chest, but it took care of her just fine. I paced the shot off at 30 yards- I need to work on my range estimation. Good thing I held high enough, or I might have shot under her.
We're going back out again next week.
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