Sleepless night

  • herefishyfishy
    MN
    Posts: 862
    October 5, 2009 at 1:48 am #200637

    I was in stand looking the other way of course and a nice buck snuck up the hill from behind me at 630. I saw him at forty yards and at about thirty i knew I was shooting. He was moving through some branches right before my small opening and i pulled back. This was off the left side of my stand. He walked into the opening but angled immediatley towards me and walked past tree at ten yards (so to my back behind tree). I knew he would come into another shooting lane that runs along a trail behind me but I had to turn all the way around with him at ten yards and my bow at full draw. I got turned around and as he aproached the trail he looked right up at me and did a little bobbing to see what i was. He seemed to relax a little and not quite quartered to the trail. At about eighteen yards I checked anchor point and put twenty on him and released. I cant quite clearly remeber exactly where I impacted him but I think it was about four inches back from where I wanted it and just over the halfway point on height. My arrow was bright red blood but after looking after dark twenty yards from impact we only found one really dark spot of blood so we backed out and that brings us to here. Appologise for rambling but atill worried pumped tired and wired.

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    October 5, 2009 at 1:55 am #61494

    good call on backing out and good luck finding him in the am

    did you count points???

    martysddw
    EC, Wisconsin
    Posts: 131
    October 5, 2009 at 2:03 am #61496

    I’d bet liver if I was a bettin man. Good luck in the morning. Backing out was definitely the thing to do. Been there-done that. You might need a few benadryl to get thru the night!!

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    October 5, 2009 at 2:24 am #61497

    Good call and good luck in the AM

    jeff_heeg
    Marshfield WI.
    Posts: 479
    October 5, 2009 at 2:34 am #61465

    Good Luck in the morning, I hope you find your buck!

    Jeff

    whiteoak
    Posts: 30
    October 5, 2009 at 3:01 am #61442

    How exciting!! I can’t wait to check back here in the AM. I’m pulling for ya!

    jeff_hansen
    Posts: 475
    October 5, 2009 at 3:10 am #61502

    Good call, when in doubt wait ’em out Good luck tomorrow a.m.

    protourbaits
    stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2466
    October 5, 2009 at 3:11 am #61503

    I would guess liver hit on the exit but the red blood sounds like lungs?? Good job backing out and if you hit one lung and liver, he should bed down and die

    chev70
    SW Wisconsin
    Posts: 1008
    October 5, 2009 at 3:37 am #61507

    Good Luck in the AM

    coppertop
    Central MN
    Posts: 2853
    October 5, 2009 at 3:46 am #61508

    Keep us posted. Hopefully he has been down for some time already.

    mossyoak
    UP Michigan
    Posts: 198
    October 5, 2009 at 6:21 am #61517

    Good luck. As hard as it is you made the right choice by backing out. Hope to be looking at your trophy pics at this time tomarrow..

    abster71
    crawford county WI
    Posts: 817
    October 5, 2009 at 2:25 pm #61570

    good luck on the recovery backing out should lead you to your trophy.

    ragerunner
    Winona, MN
    Posts: 699
    October 5, 2009 at 3:31 pm #61594

    I hope you found him. And not just because we’re on the same team. Please post some pictures!!!

    rsballar6941
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 412
    October 5, 2009 at 5:20 pm #61627

    Hopefully we see a positive report in just a few

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    October 5, 2009 at 5:37 pm #61631

    Many of us have been in your shoes as well reliving the shot scene over and over. Good luck and I hope you find him!

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