Congratulations! I’ve been hunting with a traditional bow for a few years now. It’s unbelievably hard to get everything to come together for a good clean kill. I killed a doe early this bow season, and the Thursday before rifle season I killed my first buck with a trad bow. It’s so stinking hard to do….
Shoot me a message with the specs of your bow, I betcha I can help you get a replacement string. They’re only about $20 or so
Oh man, thats a bummer!
They are also curious. I bet the first time the activity ceases, the deer will stroll through to see what’s going on. That’s what happened when my neighbor broke ground on their house. Did a bunch of dirt work one day and that afternoon late, I looked out the window and several deer were standing in the middle of where his house would eventually sit.
=:0 WOW! I wasn't going to go out today, but after seeing this dude I have to scratch my buck itch.Hunted hard yesterday morning, climbed up the side of a good sized mountain and stayed until 11:30. Saw tons of deer and shot 2 hogs, who oddly enough were way up on the very top of the mountain above me. I didn’t plan to hunt yesterday evening, but the farmers hired hand called and said he had gathered cattle off one of their places and he watched a BUNCH of deerrun onto their other property. My son pestered me until I agreed to grab my gear and head out.
My stand at the property is in a draw, between a pond and a wheat field. I have to cross a large wheat field in the truck to get to the area where the farmer likes me to park. Because I arrived late in the afternoon, there were already 25+ deer on the wheat, including 2 nice bucks. I pulled through the gate, parked in the shade, and started glassing to see what the deer were in the field. Right away I spotted 2 nice bucks and one of them was a definite shooter, but they were a long ways from me. My wind was blowing directly to ALL the deer I could see, and I had no clue how to get closer. I kinda thought to myself “what the heck, let’s see what happens” so I pulled my truck next to an abandoned house just inside the property, got out and began putting on all my orange…. Getting my gun out of the truck and loading it….. grabbing my binoculars again…… and the big shooter was still there. My rangefinder wouldn’t give me a reading, so I used onX to getting an approximate distance to the buck. 375 was my best guess. I knew I had no prayer of getting any closer, so I laid down on my belly, flipped out my bipods, and let the 300wsm bark. The big buck and 2 does ran east about 100 yards when I shot, and I immediately thought I missed. I racked another shell into my gun, and got back on the scope. When I found him again in the scope, he turned around and began going west again and I could plainly see blood spewing profusely from his side. He got wobbly in his backend and went down. He’s by far my biggest buck. Gross green score 170 4/8” and this is the first time we had ever seen him. No pictures of him (we’re running 3 cell cams in the area) and no sightings of any kind. I’m super proud of him, obviously. My wife not so much…. This is taxidermy bill #3 for our family this yearbut I wouldn’t change any of it for the world.View attachment 321829View attachment 321830
Congrats on getting your buddy his first buck!
