rocksteady
09-05-2008, 11:51 AM
Well, not a big stinky White Owl stogey, but maybe a HoneyTime Vanilla Cigarillo.....
3 degrees and clear this morning, went to a different area. Usually see elk in there but lots of whitetails kicking around too..
So I walked in to where I wanted to be in the dark, set up about 35 yards uphill from a major elk trail on a bench in the overgrown cut block..>And waited...and waited...and waited....
About 7:00 I hear a noise to my right and see 2 whitey does coming my way...Perfect, they will be coming down the trail that I am sitting overlooking....All of a sudden they get in a pissin match, swinging at each other with their front hooves and they come running straight at me...They eventually stop about 20 yards away from me behind some Buffalo Berry bushes....I swing my crossbow that way and wait...
Eventually the one walks out broadside, measured it at 23 yards after...Decided, might as well put some meat in the freezer. At the shot, she ran across the cut block in the open for 40 yards (ranged it later)..She stood there with her tail up and head up...I knew I had hit her but she really wasn't showing it...
She stood there for about 10 seconds, then her tail drooped, then her head drooped and then she fell over, and with one kick , it was over..:razz::razz:..The other doe would not leave us alone, was not really scared as I walked up to my doe...
Walked back to the truck, drove in as close as I could (200 yards) and went back in to drag her out..When I got back in the other doe was still there..Dragged my doe to the truck, took some pics, gutted her and loaded her up....
I looked up on the hill, just where I had been sitting..2 point whitey buck standing there...and me with only 1 tag.....:mad:
Could not find my arrow on the original search, so went back and scoured the area really good...Finally located it. Of the 3 blades on the mechanical, only 1 had opened. Still was fatal but not what I had expected. I have used these before and usually they make major damage. 3 blades with a 2" cutting path....Not sure if the mechanical failed because it was so close and very fast, or if it did not hit anything solid enough to open the blades....Went between the ribs....
Hit her a little further back than I had hoped, but the arrow went right through the top part of the liver (I was all kinked around, not really in a comfortable shooting position)
Pictures a little bloody, she leaked out a bit more on the way home in the back of the truck...
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/2008%20season/DSC00593.jpg
Now that I know for sure the bow works and I can hit something I am back at the elk tomorrow morning....She should b every good eatin'.....Roasts, cutlets and burger...
3 degrees and clear this morning, went to a different area. Usually see elk in there but lots of whitetails kicking around too..
So I walked in to where I wanted to be in the dark, set up about 35 yards uphill from a major elk trail on a bench in the overgrown cut block..>And waited...and waited...and waited....
About 7:00 I hear a noise to my right and see 2 whitey does coming my way...Perfect, they will be coming down the trail that I am sitting overlooking....All of a sudden they get in a pissin match, swinging at each other with their front hooves and they come running straight at me...They eventually stop about 20 yards away from me behind some Buffalo Berry bushes....I swing my crossbow that way and wait...
Eventually the one walks out broadside, measured it at 23 yards after...Decided, might as well put some meat in the freezer. At the shot, she ran across the cut block in the open for 40 yards (ranged it later)..She stood there with her tail up and head up...I knew I had hit her but she really wasn't showing it...
She stood there for about 10 seconds, then her tail drooped, then her head drooped and then she fell over, and with one kick , it was over..:razz::razz:..The other doe would not leave us alone, was not really scared as I walked up to my doe...
Walked back to the truck, drove in as close as I could (200 yards) and went back in to drag her out..When I got back in the other doe was still there..Dragged my doe to the truck, took some pics, gutted her and loaded her up....
I looked up on the hill, just where I had been sitting..2 point whitey buck standing there...and me with only 1 tag.....:mad:
Could not find my arrow on the original search, so went back and scoured the area really good...Finally located it. Of the 3 blades on the mechanical, only 1 had opened. Still was fatal but not what I had expected. I have used these before and usually they make major damage. 3 blades with a 2" cutting path....Not sure if the mechanical failed because it was so close and very fast, or if it did not hit anything solid enough to open the blades....Went between the ribs....
Hit her a little further back than I had hoped, but the arrow went right through the top part of the liver (I was all kinked around, not really in a comfortable shooting position)
Pictures a little bloody, she leaked out a bit more on the way home in the back of the truck...
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/2008%20season/DSC00593.jpg
Now that I know for sure the bow works and I can hit something I am back at the elk tomorrow morning....She should b every good eatin'.....Roasts, cutlets and burger...