I got in the ladderstand at 6:30. Calm and clear.
8:15 a little fawn buck with spikes 1" long came out of the hay field and fed through the turnips and into the clover plot in front of me.
8:25 the little guy stops and keeps staring to the south where he came from.
8:30 out steps the one antler buck that ran past me on Thursday. When I seen him Thursday I thought his left antler was broken off and blood was running down his face. But no the antler is there and dark brown going all the way down to his mouth. It didn't seem to bother him as I took pictures of him and the little spike butting heads and pushing each other around. That was cool.
Try as I could at 40 yds with 7 power binocs it sure looked like the deformed antler was attached just further down than normal.
I thought it would be neat to take a real freak antler buck so I set my HHA sight for 40 yds and when he was full broadside with the right shoulder facing me I took the shot. He ducked the shot and I hit him right at the top of the shoulder and the arrow went in half way. Both bucks turned and run back
the same way they came.
I could follow them through the tree tops where they ran through the hayfield to the tractor path across a small creek.
I waited till 9:30 and went to the tractor path and found couple drops of blood. He went into heavy brush about 25 yds in and I found the broken top half of my arrow. As soon as I found the arrow I hear and see 2 deer running next to me. Two does went both sides me at 20 ft and then just stood there and stared at me. Then the big 10 pt buck I've been seeing ran up to within 15 ft of me and was he pissed off. He kept looking at me with a bobbing head for 2-3 minutes and he figured me out and turned tail and ran off. The way he was acting I thought he was going to attack.
Almost immediately after finding my arrow I start seeing large piles of red blood every 10 ft or so. This continued for about 75 yds. then it was a just a drop every 10 ft or so for 25 yds. The brush opened up into a hay field and found 2 drops then it stopped. I searched every which way, all the edges, trails, weed patches for 100's of yds and nothing.
My back lasted 2 hrs then I could go anymore. I texted my nephew and he came down. We both looked and searched everywhere and never found another drop. We looked for another 2 hrs and he had to go to the shop.
Now it's a light rain. A real sad day on the farm.
My son is supposed to bring his thermo imaging unit down to night and look.
8:15 a little fawn buck with spikes 1" long came out of the hay field and fed through the turnips and into the clover plot in front of me.
8:25 the little guy stops and keeps staring to the south where he came from.
8:30 out steps the one antler buck that ran past me on Thursday. When I seen him Thursday I thought his left antler was broken off and blood was running down his face. But no the antler is there and dark brown going all the way down to his mouth. It didn't seem to bother him as I took pictures of him and the little spike butting heads and pushing each other around. That was cool.
Try as I could at 40 yds with 7 power binocs it sure looked like the deformed antler was attached just further down than normal.
I thought it would be neat to take a real freak antler buck so I set my HHA sight for 40 yds and when he was full broadside with the right shoulder facing me I took the shot. He ducked the shot and I hit him right at the top of the shoulder and the arrow went in half way. Both bucks turned and run back
the same way they came.
I could follow them through the tree tops where they ran through the hayfield to the tractor path across a small creek.
I waited till 9:30 and went to the tractor path and found couple drops of blood. He went into heavy brush about 25 yds in and I found the broken top half of my arrow. As soon as I found the arrow I hear and see 2 deer running next to me. Two does went both sides me at 20 ft and then just stood there and stared at me. Then the big 10 pt buck I've been seeing ran up to within 15 ft of me and was he pissed off. He kept looking at me with a bobbing head for 2-3 minutes and he figured me out and turned tail and ran off. The way he was acting I thought he was going to attack.
Almost immediately after finding my arrow I start seeing large piles of red blood every 10 ft or so. This continued for about 75 yds. then it was a just a drop every 10 ft or so for 25 yds. The brush opened up into a hay field and found 2 drops then it stopped. I searched every which way, all the edges, trails, weed patches for 100's of yds and nothing.
My back lasted 2 hrs then I could go anymore. I texted my nephew and he came down. We both looked and searched everywhere and never found another drop. We looked for another 2 hrs and he had to go to the shop.
Now it's a light rain. A real sad day on the farm.
My son is supposed to bring his thermo imaging unit down to night and look.
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