bowman13
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This last Sunday morning i had the privilege of sitting in a stand that just has that good vibe when you first sit down. 2 years in a row bucks have been shot out of this spot, a 140 and a 125. It is the pinch points of pinch points. While getting to the stand an hour early thanks to day light savings time i busted a tank of deer off the bean field edge. Then had a 130-140 class main frame 8 with 2 flyers off his left g2 come into 70 yrds chasing a doe. After a good 15 minutes he busted me big time. Took off jumped the river and out of my life, so i thought. 10 minutes later had a decent 2.5 run 150 yrds through the timber, then rattled in yet another decent 2.5. Right about 7:25 the same buck that busted me earlier entered the cut beans right at about 40 yrds and started walking the bean edge right to the base of the stand.I stood up quickly as he went behind a tree, grabbed my bow, and before I know it im at full draw with what would be my biggest buck by far, at 5 yrds, perfectly broadside, slightly walking, 3 or 4 yards from the base of the tree. What else can you ask for!? It happened so fast i shot....and hit high right below the spine, but i was pretty high up in the tree so i thought maybe there was enough angle on the arrow that it caught lung or a little bit of heart. Buck fever i guess. As he runs away he turns away from me and i can see arrow on both sides of him and the exit wound looked like it was right were you want it. As he ran away he was making a really weird noise that sounded like there was either blood in his body cavity swishing back and forth, or he was breathing out of the the hole in his side. Found the broadhead half of my arrow. All the blades on the 3 blade rage looked like they had been deployed, but the rubber band was not broken. Blood trail was pathetic in the beginning, then got progressively better for a while. The blood said lung, bright red almost pink, foamy, and we could see visible chunks of lung on the arrow and in the blood. We tracked him for damn near a mile he ran across the creek, through the plowing, hopped a pretty high cattle fence with ease(which made us think that he wasn't hit as bad as we thought). Ran the entire pasture went under a bridge and on to other land. After getting permission we finally picked up the blood trail 40 yards down the creek headed into some willows. Great blood, he was running into saplings, and we found a big hank of lung. Then nothing. Not one speck of blood. We started doing circle around last blood. Once our circles started getting 150 to 200 yards away from last blood we started to grid back and forth. Absolutely nothing. We have no idea where he went, but we did hear a big group of crows on the far side of the farm, so we are going to go back and see if maybe we can find something that will show which direction he went. Any suggestions?
