TL;DR - Shot a deer, pics at the bottom.
Alright, I took today off work since the rut is going hard and today was the first cold(er) day in the last week or so. Got to the land about 20 minutes later than I wanted to so I had to go to a different stand since I didn't have time to make it to the stand I was going to head to. Got settled in about 25 minutes before shooting time. Around 6:45 I did some grunting. 6:50 this 9 point jumps the fence to my north. Wind is WNW perfect. 6:52 a doe pops out directly downwind of me....not good.
At first, I had decided I didn't want to shoot him. His left side was kind of spindly and he isn't very wide, or tall, or massive, or symmetrical. Then I thought to myself, I haven't even shot a buck with a bow yet. He's not a bad buck by any means for this area...we just don't have a lot of deer, let alone big deer around here. So I decided that if he gave me a really high quality shot and this doe downwind didn't bust me, I would take him.
Luckily for me, she never winded me and worked her way into the corn field in front of me enough that I could stand up and get my bow. The buck eventually worked his way around and ended up at 18 yards slightly quartering away. He was basically begging me to shoot him.
Drew back, settled in, and sent the arrow. With a loud crack I watched the arrow dissapear inside the deer, slightly lower than I was aiming, but right behind the shoulder. He took off, hauling ass through some thick stuff for about 5 yards...quickly stopped turned to his right and started walking down a four wheeler trail. At this point I could clearly see, from about 50 yards away, a steady stream of blood pouring out of him. Heart shot. I knew then I would be watching him go down. Sure enough, about 20 yards later of a quick walk the whole time pouring out blood, he got wobbly legs and was down.
When I got to where I shot him, there was plenty of hair and a TON of blood right there. It was a solid stream of blood the whole way to the deer. I'm very impressed with the Killzone broadheads. Fly great, don't rattle, don't require 'shock collars' or o-rings, don't open randomly, and put a serious hole in the deer.
He's not huge, but I'm really happy with him.
Video of bloodtrail from the point in which he started walking....there was quite a bit of blood before this that I didn't show...it was just too thick in there to video it...
Alright, I took today off work since the rut is going hard and today was the first cold(er) day in the last week or so. Got to the land about 20 minutes later than I wanted to so I had to go to a different stand since I didn't have time to make it to the stand I was going to head to. Got settled in about 25 minutes before shooting time. Around 6:45 I did some grunting. 6:50 this 9 point jumps the fence to my north. Wind is WNW perfect. 6:52 a doe pops out directly downwind of me....not good.
At first, I had decided I didn't want to shoot him. His left side was kind of spindly and he isn't very wide, or tall, or massive, or symmetrical. Then I thought to myself, I haven't even shot a buck with a bow yet. He's not a bad buck by any means for this area...we just don't have a lot of deer, let alone big deer around here. So I decided that if he gave me a really high quality shot and this doe downwind didn't bust me, I would take him.
Luckily for me, she never winded me and worked her way into the corn field in front of me enough that I could stand up and get my bow. The buck eventually worked his way around and ended up at 18 yards slightly quartering away. He was basically begging me to shoot him.
Drew back, settled in, and sent the arrow. With a loud crack I watched the arrow dissapear inside the deer, slightly lower than I was aiming, but right behind the shoulder. He took off, hauling ass through some thick stuff for about 5 yards...quickly stopped turned to his right and started walking down a four wheeler trail. At this point I could clearly see, from about 50 yards away, a steady stream of blood pouring out of him. Heart shot. I knew then I would be watching him go down. Sure enough, about 20 yards later of a quick walk the whole time pouring out blood, he got wobbly legs and was down.
When I got to where I shot him, there was plenty of hair and a TON of blood right there. It was a solid stream of blood the whole way to the deer. I'm very impressed with the Killzone broadheads. Fly great, don't rattle, don't require 'shock collars' or o-rings, don't open randomly, and put a serious hole in the deer.
He's not huge, but I'm really happy with him.
Video of bloodtrail from the point in which he started walking....there was quite a bit of blood before this that I didn't show...it was just too thick in there to video it...