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[Archerysniper]

My 2016 archery hunting is officially over. It started this spring with a giant Tom then I moved on to Ontario where I took a monster black bear. I shot bowfishing tournaments all summer killing time until the whitetail season kicked of here. The deer hunting wasn't bad,I only had a few sits where I didn't see any deer. I passed  a few does through the first two weeks of season because I was recording my hunts and didn't have enough camera light. Finally on October 1st I had a big doe step out at 20 yards with a hour of shooting light. I made a perfect shot and got it all on film. After watching the video I decided to switch over to lighted knocks so you can actually see the arrow. 

I took some time off from hunting waiting for it to get closer to Halloween and my favorite time to be in the stand. On Wednesday night I couldn't explain it but I had a feeling it was the night. It had rained all night and up until 2 that afternoon cloudy with the temps in the low 40's and a rare east northeast that I needed to hunt my favorite rut stand. At 5pm I can hear what sounds like a deer in the damp leaves but it wont show itself so I hit the grunt call. A couple minutes later I hear a deer coming in,a doe and 2 fawns so I record them  for a minute and they wonder off.

At 5:55 I figure its time to rattle so I grab my grunt call and do a couple really deep nasty ticked off grunts and a snort weeze. Following right away with heavy rattling and finished with 2 buck roars. At about 605 I hear a deer coming down the same trail as the doe as im standing up I hear a deep grunt. I turn and grab my bow as this buck steps out at 12 yards and he's a shooter. So I start turning to get a shot and my knee high boots rub together and squeaked he stops dead and stares right up at my. He tries to pick me off he knows something isn't right but I have the wind. He turns and starts quartering away going trough the thick stuff where I have one small opening at 30 yards. I'm following him at full draw and see he is heading to my lane so I shift over there,he stops with just his head in my lane looking back at me then starts walking. As he steps into my lane I release and watch my green nock arc through the air and bury deep into the bucks side. He bolts out of there and into the little slough,I hear him splashing and watch as he stop and stands there about 50 from where I hit him.

After that it gets quiet I didn't hear any splashing or thrashing that normally happens when they expire. So I had my doubts,I did get it on video so I watch it over and over but still couldn't tell for sure. I txt my buddy that I stuck one and I'm sitting till 7 and going out the long way because he ran right towards my truck that was parked a couple hundred yards away. We run to town and get fuel in the truck then to the adult beverage store for some refreshments. We get back to my truck around 8 this gives it almost 2 hrs from the time I shot.

We were going to sneek in and check out the trail to determine what we should do next. As we get to the spot where I shot it takes a minute but we find a drop of blood that led to another drop then a continuous arterial spray,it was everywhere. We follow that through the grass in water over our knee high boots till we look ahead and see him piled up in the water half floating half resting and the grass. Turns out he dropped right where he stopped running. My arrow had went in 4 inches behind the last rib and exited in his armpit of the off side leg passing through the center of his heart. 

Edited October 28, 2016 by Archerysniper

[ZachD]

Nice job now post all the pictures in this post!

[Archerysniper]

  On 10/28/2016 at 4:48 PM, ZachD said:

Nice job now post all the pictures in this post!

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If your nice I might even post the video later tonight 

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[DonBo]

Hell of a season for sure.  Proud to say I know ya

 

[ozzie]

Awesome season Archerysniper!!  Thanks for sharing your hunts with us...I hope I can do the same if things work out right

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[Big Country]

Congratulations on an incredible season A-S!  Love the tom picture, heck all of the pictures.  Spent my whole summer building the shack on our 40 and have been bow hunting twice.  Whacked a fawn for the freezer in an intensive harvest area.  Son got a nice doe on opener.  Looking forward to getting rifle season going and done so I can focus on the metro bow hunt.  Nice year for ya!