Buck

[Key]

Thanks for the congrats guys, I keep going over what happened in my mind.

[RidgeRunner]

Tell us the story.
We will help you think it over.

David

[Hillbilly]

Man, that's a brute. We don't have anything looks like that down here. I killed one a couple years ago that weighed right at 200 lbs and that one looks half again as big as it was.

[Pappy]

Nice deer, love to hear the story. 
   Pappy

[Big A]

Great deer. Tell us more.
Big A

[cowboy]

Damn, looks like a yearling bull .

[Ranger B]

Wow, that would be a task to get out of the woods. I'd have to go get all of Twin Oaks to help me and pray that Jesse was around ;-)
Congrats on monster.

[Key]

Thanks again guys. Correction on the date I got him. It was Oct 30th of this year and of course not Nov 30th. The short story goes like this. I spotted the buck coming from a fields edge at aound 100 yards out. He closed the distance to my stand and stopped to work a scrape at about 30 yards from me. He than came right to my stand, within a few feet of it facing me. I was up and ready but no shot. He than turned quarting toward me and I took that shot on his right side. He ran behhind the stand and up over a small  hill where he stopped. He feather end of the shaft had broken by than and I was concerned that I was too far back, hopping for at least a liver hit. My plan was to wait until morning to go after him but it started raining a couple of hours after I got home. I decided to go and find his trail. I found him dead not more that 40 yards from where I saw him last. There was 11 inches of tipped arrow in him and both lungs were cut up real bad.
I don't really know how long he stood in front of the stand but it seemed like hours. I really thought I would get busted and he would bolt away. That one
step exposing his vitals happen so quickly it was all a blurr when I shot.
This old sefbow has killed 3 bucks, two does and a couple of hogs.

[StevenT]

I remember a post last month or so where someone was poking fun at self bows and asking where wre all the big deer pictures.  Well, I don't remember who it was, but I hope they are still following..... cause here is their answer!!!! Nice!!!!

[cowboy]

Good story Key. Sounds like it was all just meant to be!

[recurve shooter]

good grief thats a big deer. congrats!

[Canoe]

Howdy Key,

Wow!!!  What a bruiser!  Congrats!

The chances of actually seeing / getting a monster like that goes way up when one is actually out in the field hunting rather than sitting at home on the internet.  Good for you!

(Over the past 30 or so years of bowhunting, I've seen a few monsters like that in the big woods of Northern Wisconsin.  I even let an arrow or two fly at 'em - but for not.)

That's a nice lookin' bow as well.  So, what type of wood is your bow it made of? 

Thanks for sharing - it's very encouraging.

All the Best,
Canoe

[Key]

Canoe,
The bow was made from an Osage stave. It has been just a great shooting bow since the day I made it. So far it has taken 3 bucks, 2 does and a couple of hogs.
It pulls 62 pounds at my draw and is 62 inches long.
Thanks again guys, for you kind comments.

[Kent D.]

Congrats.  Very nice buck.

[Key]

Thanks Kent, he is very good eating too. Lot's of food for this winter now.