manford
10-17-2004, 07:58 PM
First off i would like to say hi to all you rednecks here on the bowzone long time no see.lol Any way I got off to a pretty bad start this season. It all started last Sunday which was the second day of season for us, my buddy and I went out deer hunting and didn't have much luck in the morning, we only seen 3 deer. In the evening i decided to try out my new cable climber so I set up on a grassy swail and waited till dark. Sure enough right at sunset a nice buck came out about 120 yds down form me but he was headed the wrong way. Once he crossed all the way over i started doing some soft grunts and luckily he started to head my way. I kept checking my pins to make sure i could see good enough to shoot as it took the deer probably 7-8 mins to make its way over to me. The buck came into 25 yards and stopped broadside. I drew my bow and as i did the buck lifted his head and looked in my direction. I dont think he seen me though because I was about 15ft up with a good back setting. I took aim and released, thats when I heard that terrifying sound of an arrow hitting bone and I knew right away i screwed up. As the deer turned to run away I could see the arrow did not have much penetration and about 30yds into his escape I seen the arrow fly into the air flipping over him and landing on his other side. He stopped about 100yds out and I hoped that he would go down...he didn't. He then bolted again and I instantly started grunting to stop him and it worked but he only stopped for a second before he dissapeared into the treeline. Man did I mess up. Anyhow it gets worse. The next morning I returned at daylight to start looking (I dind't look that night as I wanted him to bed down..clear skies as well). As it turns out he only bled for about 200-300yds from my stand then totally stopped and never once bedded down. After about 5 hours we decided to head back for lunch at the truck and then head back out after that. When we got to the truck I told my buddy that I would light a fire so we could roast sone hotdogs. I grabbed a dead jackpine top and propped it up on another log, this is where my season might have ended. I then jumped up in the air with both feet coming down on the log as I landed the end of the top came up and drove a limb into my right eye. Could it get any worse? yep I had to cancel searching for the buck that I wounded and head into the hospital. Talk about a useless feeling. Any ways I'm now hoping to recover the vision in my eye, I'm off work and I can't go hunting. boohoohoo. So a little reminder from me to all of you out there please be careful out there and never let your gaurd down. This was one of those stupid little things i've been doing since I was a kid but it finally caught up to me. Any critisizim is more then welcome about the deer or the tree top but most of all the next time you jump on a branch to break it think of this and rethink what you are doing. Good luck out there and Happy hunting.