Velvet
by Mbrock. 04/28/24 09:16 PM
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I feel horrible.
#1142059
11/10/14 06:08 AM
11/10/14 06:08 AM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456 Harpersville, AL
tfd1224
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14 point
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14 point
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Harpersville, AL
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I didn't want to post this but I will anyway. This is gonna be a long story but I wounded the biggest buck I have ever seen while hunting. Friday evening I hunted a new spot where a huge white oak was dropping, within 45 minutes I had a doe come by and I smoked her. While I was texting my buddy about it another doe came in and stayed for about 20 minutes and ended up walking by at 8 yards. About 5 minutes after she walked off, I saw movement to my right and a buttonhead walked out and fed for about 5 minutes and was joined by another doe. I watched them for about 10 or 12 minutes. I hear something coming from my left and look at it with my binoculars and I can see that it is a spike. (now I know why they have devil horns) he comes out and feeds down to where he is directly under my tree and he just stays there for a couple of minutes. I hear another deer coming from where the spike came from and I look up and see legs and a tree shaking above them. He keeps on coming and I can make out a huge rack and a huge body. Those of you who only shoot mature bucks will understand this and some of you won't but this was one of those times when a deer walks out and instead of reaching for your binoculars, you reach for your bow. There is no debating if this is a deer you want to take, the killer instinct just kicks in. He is feeding closer to me and gets to 15 yards, broad side. I go to stand up, I never made a noise, nothing drops off my boots, nothing happened but that spike that was directly under me busts me and runs up the hill and stops directly in front of the buck pawing the ground and staring at me. The big buck just swings his head towards the spike and runs him further up the hill and continues on to get a drink of water. This is all going on on my left side and I am left handed so I still need to stand to get a shot. The spike is still looking at me and pawing and I should have stood up here but I decide to twist around in my seat and draw back on the buck. Right when I draw, he steps behind a bush. The buck turns around to feed back up the hill but he is quartered to me and I elect not to take the shot. My body has gotten to such a wierd angle that the bow just closes up on me. It didn't jerk my release hand back towards the bow, it jerked the bow across my body towards my release hand. The buck hears this and runs up the hill and is standing at 20 yards broadside staring at me. For some wierd reason he looks down to feed and I go to stand up but because of all my twisting in the stand my freakin back pocket button is stuck in the mesh of my ol man net seat, the buck is looking at me again, halfway stood up, trying to get the button out of my seat. He looks down and I reach down and get the seat undone and get stood up. He is now standing at 20 yards feeding but behind a bush and highly nervous. He starts walking away and quarters away from me and stops at 25 yards, I draw and fire and land an arrow 5/8 up his body right behind the last rib angled down and forward towards his other shoulder. The arrow goes in halfway and stops and he runs off with the arrow sticking out of him and I am listening for a crash but I never hear one. I know I'm not gonna have blood because I have no exit wound so I elect to call in a track dog and give the deer 4 hours. We go drag out my doe and go back to camp and dress her out. We go back and track with the dog for 3 hours but the dog keeps having problems with cactus sticking in him so I get the last coordinates and go back the next day and look for 3 more hours with no luck. I did find a doe that someone had shot a couple weeks before. I beside myself right now. This buck was an 8 or 9 point hovering all around that pope and young mark and I thought I smoked him. I just hope I didn't kill him and he heals up.
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142083
11/10/14 06:21 AM
11/10/14 06:21 AM
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Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,577 Tuscaloosa, AL
Bowfool
12 point
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12 point
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Tuscaloosa, AL
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Hate to hear that. They are so tough. Maybe by some means you'll find him.
‘Obama Is the Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on the American People’ - Clint Eastwood
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142089
11/10/14 06:26 AM
11/10/14 06:26 AM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 4,048 Sylacauga
doecommander
things that make you go hmmmmmmm
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things that make you go hmmmmmmm
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 4,048
Sylacauga
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Big heavy bucks are tough. They can be hard to bring down with a bow. Hope you get another chance at him.
doecommander out...........................
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142097
11/10/14 06:30 AM
11/10/14 06:30 AM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 16,156 Alabaster
Bowhunter84
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 16,156
Alabaster
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Man I hate to hear that buddy. It's happened to me too and it sucks!
"Just remember a gobbler has to win every time, you only have to win once" BC
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142106
11/10/14 06:33 AM
11/10/14 06:33 AM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,624 Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,624
Clanton
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Damn hate to hear that nick. I know you're sick cause I've stuck a good deer and lost him and I was for several days.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142398
11/10/14 10:51 AM
11/10/14 10:51 AM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 28,989 Fosters, Alabama, USA
Shaw
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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Hate that happened. I had a chance at a 5+yo 8pt yesterday evening and grazed his chest. He was 33 yards and my sight was set on 30 and I knew it. My dumb ass aimed for the heart like I do on does all of the time. Well, bucks don't drop like does do 99% of the time. You just don't get that many opportunities at bucks that old very often with a bow.
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Captain Woodrow F. Call
ShawBuilt Custom Bowstrings
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142444
11/10/14 11:24 AM
11/10/14 11:24 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,347 Prattville AL
ElkHunter
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,347
Prattville AL
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Nick,
I hate to say this but it sounds like a fatal shot. I would be watching the buzzards hard in that area.
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142737
11/10/14 02:55 PM
11/10/14 02:55 PM
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 35,444 Missouri
swamp_fever2002
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Missouri
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Good read, hate to hear you lost him!
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1142831
11/10/14 03:44 PM
11/10/14 03:44 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456 Harpersville, AL
tfd1224
OP
14 point
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OP
14 point
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Harpersville, AL
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Barry, I got excited Saturday. After I had looked for about an hour, I saw 1 lone buzzard sitting in a tree. I booked it over there and there were about 30 buzzards. It took a while but I saw one fly off the ground about 100 yards away and when I got over there it was a doe that had been there for a while. We will have buzzard watch going on about Wednesday.
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: Turkey Petter]
#1142856
11/10/14 04:01 PM
11/10/14 04:01 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456 Harpersville, AL
tfd1224
OP
14 point
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14 point
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Harpersville, AL
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The button caught in the Ol Man stand.......I had the same thing happen to me when I was shooting at a doe. I guess the dear Lord felt sorry for my dumb self trying to balance myself with part of the seat hanging off my rear. The arrow found it's mark and I was glad I was wearing my harness. Hope you find him. I'm cutting the buttons off the back of all my pants
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1143138
11/10/14 09:10 PM
11/10/14 09:10 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 5,391 Cleburne County
NortonZ7
12 point
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12 point
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Posts: 5,391
Cleburne County
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Hate to hear that buddy but it happens to the best of us. I lost the biggest buck I've ever shot at in Alabama as well. I was literally sick for two weeks. I feel your pain buddy!
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Re: I feel horrible.
[Re: tfd1224]
#1144215
11/11/14 04:41 PM
11/11/14 04:41 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456 Harpersville, AL
tfd1224
OP
14 point
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OP
14 point
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456
Harpersville, AL
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going back tomorrow to do a little hunting but mostly looking for buzzards. wish me luck.
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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