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Well after a bit of a slow start to the deer season, my team is finally bringing some home.
First was young Nashua who is now 12. He decided that he was way over due for an archery kill this year, so he had been setting up a cottonwood near the house several evenings with his doe tag burrning a hole in his pocket. Finally, he and his Mom went with their bows, and sat up about 20 yards apart.
After seeing a pile of deer in the wrong places, a young doe came under him and stopped right next to the tuft of brush that he always shoots his judo point at when he first gets up his stand. Bad mistake for a deer.
With his Mom watching from her tree, Nash drew, and let fly with a cedar shaft and Zwicky Delta. Perfect hit, on his first ever shot at a deer, with an old Herter's recurve that I bought back in 1973 as a teenage kid. Very cool for me!!
They sat for a good while, then got down and found his arrow that had passed thru and been broken as the doe ran off. They got a good fix on the blood trail, then came home and got Ben and I to go help trail her up and bring her home.
Now we are after bucks and have not seen anything that we wanted to shoot yet. We have had lots of fun making stalks and getting set up on some small bucks. Hopefully that will help when the time comes for a big one.
My wife Sarah, has been also out several times and seen nothing she wanted to chase around after a shot. She does however have a group of does that she can see from the house every morning. They always go onto a piece of BLM that she can see from the house. Well this morning they had a 4 point with them that met her standard for this season. As the sun came up, she was ready with my old 725, and she made meat.
Nothing fancy as far as hiking in and packing out, she was just in the mood to get the freezer on the way to full, and this guy proved to be just the ticket. Kinda cool for me, cause the deer was home and hanging shortly after 8am for a change. The past two days have been the first that we have seen bucks giving does any real attention. Hopefully me and the boys will get in on a little of the rut action this week.
First was young Nashua who is now 12. He decided that he was way over due for an archery kill this year, so he had been setting up a cottonwood near the house several evenings with his doe tag burrning a hole in his pocket. Finally, he and his Mom went with their bows, and sat up about 20 yards apart.
After seeing a pile of deer in the wrong places, a young doe came under him and stopped right next to the tuft of brush that he always shoots his judo point at when he first gets up his stand. Bad mistake for a deer.
With his Mom watching from her tree, Nash drew, and let fly with a cedar shaft and Zwicky Delta. Perfect hit, on his first ever shot at a deer, with an old Herter's recurve that I bought back in 1973 as a teenage kid. Very cool for me!!
They sat for a good while, then got down and found his arrow that had passed thru and been broken as the doe ran off. They got a good fix on the blood trail, then came home and got Ben and I to go help trail her up and bring her home.
Now we are after bucks and have not seen anything that we wanted to shoot yet. We have had lots of fun making stalks and getting set up on some small bucks. Hopefully that will help when the time comes for a big one.
My wife Sarah, has been also out several times and seen nothing she wanted to chase around after a shot. She does however have a group of does that she can see from the house every morning. They always go onto a piece of BLM that she can see from the house. Well this morning they had a 4 point with them that met her standard for this season. As the sun came up, she was ready with my old 725, and she made meat.
Nothing fancy as far as hiking in and packing out, she was just in the mood to get the freezer on the way to full, and this guy proved to be just the ticket. Kinda cool for me, cause the deer was home and hanging shortly after 8am for a change. The past two days have been the first that we have seen bucks giving does any real attention. Hopefully me and the boys will get in on a little of the rut action this week.
