MY FIRST ARCHERY DEER

ALRIGHT! SO I'VE BEEN PUTTING IN SOME MAJOR TIME IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS HUNTING MULE DEER WITH MY BOW ON THE WASATCH FRONT. THE DEER HAVE BEEN PRETTY ACTIVE IN THE RUT AROUND HERE. I FOUND A GOOD SPOT HOLDING SOME NICE BUCKS IN AN AREA WITH LITTLE PRESSURE. WAY UP HIGH IS WERE MOST OF THE DEER WERE SO I SPENT MOST OF MY TIME UP THERE. I SAW MANY NICE BUCKS AND A COUPLE GREAT ONES. LETS JUST SAY I DID NOT GET THE BIGGEST ONE I SAW BUT I DID MISS HIM AT 4O YARDS RIGHT OVER HIS BACK. I'LL STICK TO THE STORY OF THIS BUCK SINCE ITS THE ONE I SHOT.
EARLY ONE MORNIG I WAS ON MY WAY UP TO "THE TOP" WHEN I SAW THIS BUCK ABOUT HALF WAY UP. BUT, SINCE I HAD THE BIG ONE SPOTTED I WALKED PAST THIS BUCK AND HIS DOES WITHOUT PUTTING A STALK ON HIM. ONCE I GOT TO THE TOP I SAW THAT THE BIG BUCK HAD MOVED ACROSS THE CANYON SO I DECIDED TO HEAD DOWN AND SEE IF I COULD FIND THIS ONE AGAIN. ON THE WAY DOWN I NOTICED THE SMALLER BUCK THAT WAS WITH HIM AND HIS DOES HAD WALK INTO A PATCH OF OAK. I FIGURED THIS DEER WAS ALREADY IN THERE. I PUT THE SNEAK ON AND SURE ENOUGH THIS BUCK POPPED RIGHT OUT. I SHOT LOW AND MISSED HIM. COUPLE NIGHTS LATER I HAD A GOOD FRIEND COME WITH ME TO SPOT. WE DID NOT HAVE MUCH TIME SO I TOLD HIM WE WOULD TRY FOR THIS FOUR POINT WITH WEAK MAIN BEAMS CAUSE HE WAS NOT FAR TO HIKE TO. SOON AS WE GET TO THE AREA HE WAS IN I SPOTTED A DOE. "THERES A DEER" I SAID. "THERES ONE TWO THREE FOUR DEER" HE SAID. I KNEW THERE WOULD BE A BUCK SO HEADED DOWN THE CANYON AND HE WOULD HELP ME WITH THE STALK. I GOT WITHIN FIFTY YARDS AND MADE A POOR SHOT AND MISSED. FAST FORWARD A WEEK LATER. I WAS ONCE AGAIN ON MY WAY DOWN FROM THE TOP AND SPOTTED EIGHT DEER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CANYON. I HAD ABOUT AN HOUR LEFT OF LIGHT AND DECIDED TO BURN DOWN THERE AND SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. I GOT TO THE BOTOM AND I COULD ONLY SEE FOUR OF THE DEER INCLUDING ONE OF THREE BUCKS. I KNEW THE BIG ONE HAD TO BE AROUND THERE SOMEWHERE. NEXT THING I KNOW BOOM A DOE IN THE OAK, SURE ENOUGH HE WAS WITH HER. I BACKED UP A COUPLE STEPS TO CLEAR THE OAK. I SHOT AND MISSED AGAIN. THE DEER DID NOT SEEM TO SPOOK MUCH SO I DECIDED TO GO UP THERE AND IF ANYTHING FIND MY ARROW. ONCE I GOT UP THERE I NOTICED THE DEER WERE ONLY 70 YARDS FROM ME. I KNOCKED ANOTHER ARROW. THE BIG BUCK STARTED TO CHASE THE SMALLER BUCK RIGHT TOWARDS ME. THE BUCK WAS FACING DOWNHILL PERFECTLY BROADSIDE. I DREW BACK AND LET ONE FLY AND SMACK I HIT HIM. IT WAS SO LOUD I KNEW I HIT BONE. HE TURNED AROUND TOWARDS THE DOE AND WAS BROADSIDE FACING THE OTHER WAY. I GOT ANOTHER ARROW KNOCKED AND SHOT HIM AGAIN. THIS TIME HE FLIPPED OUT AND RAN RIGHT TOWARDS ME STUMBLIMG A LITTLE. THEN HE SEEMED TO REGAIN HIMSELF AND TOOK OFF. I TRACKED HIM ABOUT 100 YARDS AND FOUND MY ARROW COMPLETELY COVERED IN BLOOD, A FULL PASS THREW. NOW IT WAS DARK AND NOT KNOWING WHERE I HIT HIM I PULLED OUT AND DECIDED TO COME BACK IN THE MORNING. FIRST THING THIS MORNING I STARTED WHERE I LEFT OFF AND TRACKED HIM UP AND OVER THE HILL I SHOT HIM ON AND DOWN INTO THE NEXT CANYON. HE HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE BOTTOM OF A THIK OAK BRUSH CANYON. THERE WAS HARDLY ANY BLOOD UNTIL I GOT IN THE BOTTOM THEN IT WAS ALL OVER. COMING AROUND SOME OAK BRUSH I GOT A GLIMPS OF WHITE AND THERE HE WAS. NOT ONLY MY FIRST EVER ARCHERY DEER BUT MY BIGGEST OUT OF FIVE. FOR ME GETTING ONE WITH MY BOW WAS WAY DIFFERENT THEN MY RIFLE. I'LL ALWAYS DO BOTH BUT I THINK I'M HOOKED ON ARCHERY FOR NOW.
YEP I PACKED MY MULEY MADNESS SHIRT AROUND JUST FOR THE PICTURES.HA HA
OH YEAH CHECK OUT THE BASES AND EYEGUARDS OF THIS BUCK THEY ARE AWESOME, TONS OF LITTLE KNARLY POINTS.