Most of my blogs are going to be about my outdoors experiences. This is my first blog so I’m going to talk about my most recent ones during the 2010 archery season. This isnt a formal thing so im going to write like i was telling you the story.
I had a pretty good Archery season this year. I shot a doe the first Friday of the season and after that i had some pretty awesome encounter with bucks. The first shooter buck i seen i was sitting along a field and there were some does out in the field eating clover. All of the sudden i seen a bucks head sticking out of the brush on the other side of the field. He stood there awhile before coming out and feeding under a apple tree about 50 yards away. After he was done with the apples he turned and started up the hill towards the does, so i grabbed my grunt call and grunted at him, but he paid not attention so i grunted even louder at him and he turn around, stood the hair up on his back and started that stiff legged walk that most of you bow hunters probably know. He came in to about 25 yards i could see he was about a 15 inch wide a 8 pointer and it was to early in the season to take him but it felt good to see him. All of the sudden he turned and started going to my left and i looked back that way and there was a big buck standing there in the field. I thought they were going to fight they both had the hair standing up on their backs and where walking circles around each other with their ears back. After a little of that they turned and came right in to me like they decided they were buddies. I had the smaller buck at15 yards broadside, i could have shot him easily, but the big buck was 25 yards standing straight on at me and i didn’t want to shoot him in the chest. You can kill a deer by shooting them straight on in the chest, i know people that have done it, but i don’t recommend it. This buck was a 8 pointer about 19 inches wide. Both bucks turned and headed up the hill toward the does with out me being able to get a shot.
I had a encounter with that big buck a few times before season. I filmed him one night in velvet from my tree stand. That wouldn’t be my last encounter with him. I seen a nice 10 point one day walking back from my stand. I was sneaking along the ridge line looking down over and i seen him standing with a doe i watched him for about a hour, i tried everything to get him to come in but he wasn’t leaving that doe. They finally wondered off only getting as close as 97 yards.
I did shoot a buck on November 3rd it was a nice 8 point about 14 inches wide i was running out of time and i am a bow hunter at heart. i rather shoot a deer with a bow any day before i would with a rifle. This was my 6th buck and my 5th buck with a bow. I was happy with him. It was about 20 minutes before dark and i could hear a buck chasing a doe behind me so i started grunting and then i could hear something in the woods across the field from me, so i bleated and this buck come out and came right in to 18 yards and started feeding under a apple tree. Maybe he came out cause i was grunting and maybe not but he did and i made a good shot and watched him go down.
On the last day of the 2010 archery season i took my girlfriend out hunting she was using her dads cross bow. It was a good walk to my ground blind so i drove her up on the fourwheeler and put her and all our gear in the blind and then drove the fourwheeler about a 100 yards away and parked it and walked back up and got in the blind. We were not in there for 2 minuts when i said we have to switch seats so she will have a better shot. So we just started to get up when i looked out and there stood that 19 inch 8 pointer i had the encounters with earlyer in the season. he was standing there 30 yards away. I think he seen use move or heard something he didnt like, he stood there for awhile then turned around and walked back into the woods, but i said he wasnt spooked he will come back out. After he left about 2 minutes later we looked down the field and there was a pinto buck standing there. It was all white except for its brown head. It walked down in the woods behind us and pretty soon that wide 8 point came out and followed him down into the woods and that was the last deer we see that night ending the archery season.
