Another 5 points for Team #16. After getting home from work yesterday afternoon and getting caught up on “The Muley” story I decided that my corn field tree stand (a birch tree 8 rows into a corn field) would be the perfect stand with the west wind. I climbed in at 4:45 p.m. for the evening’s hunt. It was very quiet in the stand besides an angry red squirrel that was on a barking spree with his neighborhood gray squirrel. 
It wasn’t till the sun set on the horizon that I noticed a doe to my right at 25 yards feeding on corn cobs. She soon worked her way to 10 yards in front of me. She had no idea I was just above her. I had no problem drawing on her as she chewed on a corn cob. I found my aiming point…settled in and then released the 100 grain Slick Trick broad head. My Carbon Express lighted nock showed me that I hit my mark. 
The doe turned and bolted out of corn on her way to the woods that paralleled the corn field. I was only able to keep her in my sight for a few yards before disappearing in the shadows of the woods. I could see my neon lite glowing in the dirt of the corn field floor. GREAT…a complete pass thru.
Everything was quiet once again until a few minutes later I could here something rustle in the woods. I decided to wait till Full Moon darkness set in before heading out of my stand. I walked over to my arrow which was totally covered in blood! NICE!! Blood on the corn stalks also. It wasn’t long before I was on her trail. I wasn’t finding a ton of blood though. Little blood here ..little blood there. After following the doe’s trail I could tell she was struggling now by the dirt being dug up. I had gone around 60 yards into the woods when the blood sign quit along with no tracks either. “What the HECK!!??? “Where did she go??” I then realized that maybe she walked down the side of the hill to the ravine below! Well I was half right… she was down there, but she had tipped over and rolled down to the bottom of the ravine. 
I found out why my blood trail was so spare. My entrance hole was up high which I knew but the arrow came out behind the front shoulder about 1/3 of the way up preventing the blood flow from going out till she went down.
I had a great evening in my stand and harvesting a doe was topping on the cake! 
