Deer Friends,
I have attached photos of my deer that I took on. I wish I would have had someone in the woods with me to take photos but did not. Nor did I have a camera with me, so these were taken by my neighbor once I got home.
Archer:
Synthia Wilson of
Olathe
,
Kansas
has been a Bowhunter for 10 years and is a Bowhunter Education instructor for the state of Kansas (KDWP) and IBEP.
Date Taken
Friday, November 19th at
7:50 am
.
The Stats:
He is a 9 Point buck and field dressed at about 180 lbs. and will score the 125 class. This means he will qualify the
Kansas
record book and maybe the low end of Pope and Young.
The Story:
This was my 14th time out. I was in my tree stand about 25 feet up, at dark and set up by 6:00 am with temperatures around 35 degrees and about a 10 mile an hour wind blowing to the north. I was in a transitional area where does and bucks had been seen. When it was light enough to see well, which was about
7:15
, I started with a few doe bleats, then waited a while and rattled, followed by some buck grunting sequence. This resulting in bringing in 3 does into an open field to the
North West
, on the opposite side of a creek bed near my tree. They snorted a little and slowly came closer. I continued to occasionally bleat and then grunt off and on, hoping to draw one of the does closer than 70 yards. About
7:40
I heard some snapping branches and leaves moving on the opposite side of the creek on a north eastern ridge behind me. I could see a buck coming in through the brush. He stopped and sort of hung up until he lifted up his nose and obviously got wind of some of the stink bombs I had set out near my tree. Then he came in slowly. One of the does snorted again and he perked up and came in faster. Once he was about 22 yards from me a dog barked from another direction and he momentarily stopped and looked that direction. When he did this, I pulled back my bow and let go my arrow. Right as I let go of the string (arrow already in flight) he put his foot down and seemed to plan to go back to sniffing, so the arrow went in farther back and at a quartering away shot. It went into the liver and hit the rear of the opposite lung and stuck in. It did not pass through. He took off back the direction he came over the ridge. This was
7:50 am
. At
9:45
I got down out of my stand and started to trail him. I was not happy with the shot, as I had planned for a double lung shot, so I wanted to give him plenty of time to go down. There was massive amounts of blood found off and on, though at times it was only spotted I would not give up and took my time. I ended up trailing him about 450 yards past that ridge, across a road, and up another ridge. I found him in a core area, where there was an active scrape about 20 feet away.
I called my husband Ken at home and he came and helped me field dress him and get him out of the woods. I plan to have him mounted and scored. I still have 2 doe tags to fill and 2 turkey tags.
Hope you all enjoy the pics and have success as well.
