Saturday morning I climbed 16 feet up to my chain-on stand and got settled in around 6:50. At about 7:00 I noticed a dark object slowly moving towards me through the knee high overgrown field, but it was too dark to tell if it was a doe or buck. I figured that I would find out later when I pulled my SD card from the camera that the deer walked by. The trailcam is on a fence pointing towards my stand and anything that passes between it and my stand would surely get its picture taken.
At around 7:45 a deer came into the field from my left. I could tell that it was an antlerless deer, but on first glance I did not know if it was a mature doe, button buck or young-of–the-year doe. As it slowly walked into my wide shooting lane I caught a glimpse of another deer coming up behind it. Immediately I could tell that the trailing deer was a fawn and that the first deer, now stopped slightly quartering away and in front of my camera, was a mature doe.
I then slipped the safety off on my new Excalibur Micro 335 and put the crosshair on her and took the shot. At the shot, I saw the red Lumenok zip through her and stick into the ground. She bolted at the shot and ran down the fenceline for about 45 yards and then jumped the fence. She then bounded through the thick overgrown field for another 50 yards or so before doing the death spiral and expiring. The Spitfire broadhead did its job again.
I was hoping that the camera would capture the kill. After checking the card it shows the doe standing in front of the camera just a split second before the shot. The next picture shows the arrow in the ground and the deer gone. The 7:00 deer was a small fork-horn buck.