thunderbolt Report post Posted December 28, 2007 beautiful buck, now wheres the story. blind? treestand? stalk? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZcoues_addict Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Nice, I love the wait and the progession of pics. Good buck, congratulations. I love archery hunting this time of year, can't wait until the 1st of the year, I've been waiting since last January and I can't hardly stand it any longer! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Thanks Jeff!! I loved that presentation! Congrats on your fine buck! Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DesertBull Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Day one - 28 degrees when I park the truck and unload the quad. Ride 2 miles up the mountain and the whole way I feel something isn't right with the quad. It doesn't seem to have much power. Stop and get off at the trail to my stand and hear a hissing noise. Back tire is FLAT. No time to worry about that now, I have a hand pump and some tire plugs, I'll fix it later. Get in the blind and settled in. Snap my release onto the loop and my friggen trigger on my Scott Silverhorn is GONE. ARRGH! What else is going to go wrong. I find a small stick and whittle it to the right size and rig the release to work pretty good. It's friggen COLD in the blind but there are fresh tracks all over the place. Sit for 5 hours and only saw two does. Decide to step outside and check my trail cam. 236pics in the last ten days! I decide it's not that cold and go back in the blind. Nuthin for the next two hours. I go back down to the quad to fix the tire. Yeah right. The flat tire is now frozen to the ground and when I try to move the quad the tire rips a gash about a 1" long. No way a tire plug is going to work now. The tire is toast anyway, so I nurse the bike back down the mountain to another spot I have a tree stand. Sit for two more hours and see one doe. Day two - 30 degrees but breezy. Go to the tree stand because I wasn't able to get my tire fixed. Sit for about 1/2 hour and 3 does come in. They leave another one comes in. It's only a matter of time until a rutty buck follows one of these does down the trail. Another 2 hours and leave to go get my tire fixed in Payson. Two hours later I'm back in the tree stand. 1 hour later, a doe comes in and mills around in the acorns for awhile. She keeps looking down the hill from which she came, but it's too brushy for me to see. About 5 minutes later, I see movement in the brush and out steps a decent 3 point. He goes right up the doe and just stares at her. The whole time this doe is around the stand, I'm thinking, "if this deer had horns, I'd put the pin right there on that tuft of hair and squeeze the trigger. Now, with a buck in the picture, I'm struggling with my composure. As soon as the doe turns I start to draw. I level my site bubble, place the 20 yard pin directly in the middle of his lungs and PUNCH the trigger , err I mean stick. Not only that, but I KNEW he was only 15 yards away, not 20. The Slick Trick parts the hair on his back. I'm not sure if I missed because he gave the classic mule kick before leaving. I'm thinking I might have hit him high. I'm hoping it's a complete miss because he ran straight to the bottom of the canyon and it sucks! After about 5 minutes, shaking like a leaf, I get down and find my arrow. Clean miss. Back in the stand for 5 minutes when I see another deer coming down the trail. This one stops short and stays in the brush. I'm thinking this is the doe that I just scared off when shooting at the buck. Wrong. He sticks his neck out and I see horn. I'm back to shaking now, but not as bad. There is NO WAY, I am screwing this up again. He comes out and turns and this time the pin is on his brisket. I think I still punch it, but not as bad and I follow through and see the arrow disappear in the sweet spot. The Slick Trick left an awesome blood trail. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thunderbolt Report post Posted December 28, 2007 All that going wrong and to finish the with a bang. sweet buck and story!!!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
longshooter Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Congrats on your archery buck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
25-06 Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Dude, BIG CONGRATS on the fine buck you got... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KidBowHunter Report post Posted December 28, 2007 congrats!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZP&Y Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Great write up and suspense . Outstanding blood trail- that's the way to do it! Congrats! AzP&Y Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAM Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Great job, congratulations!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jamaro Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Great Job.... jason Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattys281 Report post Posted December 28, 2007 That's awesome, congrats DB! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WOODSAZ Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Great set up and great buck. Congrats! How about some of those trail cam pics. Glad to see that with all the mishaps with your qaud and ramps that something good came your way. Now you have to wait a whole 3 days to go do it again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BowNut Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Awesome job great pics! Congrats!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gr8 White Jr Report post Posted December 28, 2007 Congrats on a fine archery buck!!! Way to stick with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
