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Zone9DeerSlayer

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Hit this brute this evening, came in just at sunset grunting and tormenting a big doe. Put a lousy shot on him back a little and low tracked him to the neighbors property where he met me yelling my name waving a flashlight. Not only did he find my deer in his backyard for me but he finished it off with his x-bow, gutted it and then came out looking for me with a note to leave on my treestand that he had recovered it! Good thing for good neighbors! We exchanged phone numbers tonight like we should have 3 years ago the first time we met each other. I definitely owe him one. Not the best rack I have on camera but I cant eat the antlers anyway. Just happy to have meat for the freezer. Glad I waited a minute longer I almost took the doe he was after, she kept turning around looking behind, that's why I waited then I heard the grunting he came in balls to the walls after her. So the pre rut is here keep your eyes open for the chase!


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Need to start harpooning them with the luck you have had with them running off.
I think i need new contact lenses! That bolt hit nowhere near where I was aiming. I take the thing home and shoot it flat in the yard I'm on the money, shoot it off my deck (same height as my stands) on the money. I get out in the woods and I'm all over the place it's not my bow or my broadheads its me! I really think rushed the shot. it was almost to the point where i couldn't see, 5 min before half hour after sunset. My scope is light gathering so I could actually see the deer better through the scope than with my naked eyes. He came into my set running and thankfully stopped 10 yards from my stand perfectly broad side, it doesn't get any better! I don't know what my problem is, last two seasons my shot placement is 50/50 at best. Maybe I should blow the dust off the Mathews and leave the x-bow home. I used to kill everything I shot at.
 
At that distance it's easy to lose track of the "hair" or exact point of impact you want through the whole shot. It takes discipline to have that much of a deer in teh scope at that range, pick a hair to shoot and not get so pumped that you are lifting your cheek to see the shot. They arre easy shots relatively speaking but it fools us into thinking that they are guaranteed shots no matter what mistakes we make.
 
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