No mulie this year, took a whitey
southwind
11/28/07 10:24pm
I went out to western kansas for my prairie mule deer hunt and just could not get anything to work. My only good stalk for a nice heavy 4x4 was skirted by too many doe eyes.
I also have become concerned about the herd. Seven years of drought has really taken it's toll to the point I am considering laying off myself for a while. The state has taken some steps to help but I think it will take a while to see any positive results.
Anyway, I headed to the flinthills to chase whitetails for a few days. I am hunting a steep limestone ridges that fall off to river bottom. The ridges start off high treeless prairie then are covered in dark heavy hardwood timber down to the river.
This day at 2:30 p.m. I went to a new stand we built this year that is about 25 foot in a locust tree. The wind was bad with 40 mph plus up above but it was calm under the canopy. That did not stop my tree from moving like crazy with it's upper branches subject to the wind. I am all strapped in good but it still makes me uneasy so I sit on the plat form and hang my bow up.
At just 15 minutes later I catch movement and here is a good looking buck moving fast through the thick bottom. I have to stand up grab my bow and find the buck. He is moving to an opening behind a tree I ranged at 30 yards. I have now drawn my bow and as he enters the opening he stops. As my brain is telling my finger to trip the release the bucks starts moving again and my arrow hits a lot farther back than you ever want.
As the shot plays over and over in my mind after an hour I climb down to check the spot where I shot the buck. I find my arrow coated with blood and see right off a very heavy blood trail leading away.
I do not want to push the buck so I head back to the truck and wait for my hunting partners to come out. After they come out we talk it over and it is now four hours later and we decide to go ahead and track the deer. The blood trail is heavy with blood having pumped out both sides. We find the deer some eighty yards from where I shot him.
I have to say I tried Rage two blade broadheads this year and have never had a broadhead cut a wound channel like it did.
A main frame 4x4 or 8 with matching cheaters and a back sratcher.
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I also have become concerned about the herd. Seven years of drought has really taken it's toll to the point I am considering laying off myself for a while. The state has taken some steps to help but I think it will take a while to see any positive results.
Anyway, I headed to the flinthills to chase whitetails for a few days. I am hunting a steep limestone ridges that fall off to river bottom. The ridges start off high treeless prairie then are covered in dark heavy hardwood timber down to the river.
This day at 2:30 p.m. I went to a new stand we built this year that is about 25 foot in a locust tree. The wind was bad with 40 mph plus up above but it was calm under the canopy. That did not stop my tree from moving like crazy with it's upper branches subject to the wind. I am all strapped in good but it still makes me uneasy so I sit on the plat form and hang my bow up.
At just 15 minutes later I catch movement and here is a good looking buck moving fast through the thick bottom. I have to stand up grab my bow and find the buck. He is moving to an opening behind a tree I ranged at 30 yards. I have now drawn my bow and as he enters the opening he stops. As my brain is telling my finger to trip the release the bucks starts moving again and my arrow hits a lot farther back than you ever want.
As the shot plays over and over in my mind after an hour I climb down to check the spot where I shot the buck. I find my arrow coated with blood and see right off a very heavy blood trail leading away.
I do not want to push the buck so I head back to the truck and wait for my hunting partners to come out. After they come out we talk it over and it is now four hours later and we decide to go ahead and track the deer. The blood trail is heavy with blood having pumped out both sides. We find the deer some eighty yards from where I shot him.
I have to say I tried Rage two blade broadheads this year and have never had a broadhead cut a wound channel like it did.
A main frame 4x4 or 8 with matching cheaters and a back sratcher.
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Again, very nice!
I need to hunt those critters one of these days......have yet to match wits with them. Congratulations on a fine buck and thanks for sharing.
That is a pretty cool looking whitey you got.I'd take him.
Marvin