Post by: lokidog on September 14, 2011, 11:13:56 PM
Here’s my version… She was excited this year to try to get a buck opening day and we had several including one known as Tall Boy that were coming by the house regularly. One other was a little larger racked but about the same body size. We have at least a two year history with Tall Boy. Unfortunately, the weather has been hot and I have been too busy to butcher a deer so she decided to hold off. He was there opening morning but we just took pictures with the trail cam. Well, the day finally came where I had a little bit of time, and the weather had cooled down a bit, so she went out yesterday after she got home from school to see which deer might come by. She went out to the blind behind the house (I set up a couple weeks ago) and I went to the garden on the other side of the house. About six minutes later she came around from the back with a nervous grin on her face. What? Already? Sure enough, he came out within minutes of her getting into the blind.
The first picture is of Tall Boy about three weeks ago, the second is from about a week ago with a smaller 3X2. They woke her up at 5:00 about four days in a row last week while I was elk hunting. Then there is a picture of her blind out back, carefully brushed in I might add. :chuckle: And, one of Kelli pointing out the blood trail to our little guy.
Well, we waited about fifteen minutes to go around the house and see if her arrow was there. All she could remember of the shot (a bit of adrenaline had kicked in I think) was that he turned away just as she let the arrow fly and it might have been a little far back. Within ten yards of the spot there was some pretty good bright blood. About twenty yards later we found all but the leading two inches of her arrow with blood all the way to the fletch, she does shoot a fairly short arrow though. We decided to follow very slowly to give him some time but we didn’t want to wait until dark. After another thirty or so yards, we lost the blood trail. We knew the direction he was going so we started following trails looking for him or blood. He was only bleeding on the entry side so we knew it was not a pass through shot. Suddenly, we heard a bunch of crashing in the salal near the chicken coop so we stopped to listen. I moved closer to Kelli who was closer to the noise than myself and saw some blood just a few steps farther on the trail she was on. So we waited. Now it was about 50 minutes since she took the shot. We could hear brush breaking from a little ways into the woods so we slowly and quietly followed the trail. There was very little blood at this point. Every now and then we would find more blood, a drop here or there, a small spray where he probably stood for a minute. Then the trail entered the woods, and the salal. The blood was gone again, but there was only one trail where it had been going so we continued. Every now and then we heard deer in the brush and another was even behind us where we had just come through. I had her cut back to the edge of the trees and I decided to do a loop around to where we had heard the crashing. I continued probably another twenty five yards without any sign. I heard a noise off to my side in the brush so moved over to see what it was and saw one drop of blood on a sedge blade. I then was able to pick up the trail and with a little bit of guessing directions finally came to a dirt hill that had several drops of blood on it. As I climbed to the top, I could see him down off the side. Thank goodness we found him as we were both getting a bit worried.
If someone can explain how to write, post a pic, write, and post another pic< I would appreciate it, then the pics in the future can go with the narrative.
Post by: lokidog on September 14, 2011, 11:17:32 PM
We finally dragged him home, yeah!
Post by: lokidog on September 14, 2011, 11:20:47 PM
Getting a bead on him was the easy part, putting the tag on him, he made us work for it. The shot ended up going behind/below his right lung, through the middle of his left lung, and lodging on the inside of his left shoulder. I actually used a metal detector to find the broadhead as it did not show up when gutting him.
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Post by: NWBREW on September 16, 2011, 02:36:27 AM
And I never could have done it without the god-like hunter that I'm married to.
Oh my god...... now he's gonna change his username to huntergod. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Congrats
Post by: ICEMAN on September 16, 2011, 04:23:14 AM
And I never could have done it without the god-like hunter that I'm married to.
Oh my god...... now he's gonna change his username to huntergod. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Congrats
Yeah, don't worry about that. We are NOT going to let that happen... :chuckle:
Weathergirl, you need to write a journal or blog for alot of our spouses to read and learn about..., then maybe they will be willing to pull the trigger or string on an animal. Mine won't. She has packed them out, cut them up etc...but will not take part in the kill... Congratulations!
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Post by: lokidog on September 16, 2011, 09:28:12 PM
And I never could have done it without the god-like hunter that I'm married to.
Oh my god...... now he's gonna change his username to huntergod. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Congrats
Nah, LOKIGOD will do..... :chuckle: Actually, if I was "Huntergod", there would have been no room in the freezers for Weathergirl's deer to be stored since my elk would be taking up all the space.... :'( Though, I did only have two days to try.
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Mulehunter. :tup:
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thanks!
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Post by: lokidog on September 18, 2011, 09:39:39 AM
Very nice! I like your blind also-- where did you buy it from?
thanks!
Sportsmans Guide, I think. It is from Eastmans Outfitters.
Thanks for the nice words everyone. Stories make grocery shopping more interesting... :chuckle:
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