HANKFAN

A Spike! The West Virginia bow season opened up on Saturday and I wanted to harvest a doe for the freezer before I start trophy hunting the bow hunting only counties here in West Virginia. I hunted daylight till dark on Saturday and only saw a small 4 pointer. On Monday I hunted about 6 hours with no deer sightings at all. The leaves are really starting to fall here and the deer are spooky to say the least. This morning I went at it again and around 8:00 I had a small button buck come right under my stand so I was happy just to see some movement. Around 8:30 I noticed a deer walking around 30 yards or so right in front of my stand. It looked to be a doe but she was heading straight away from me. All of a sudden the deer turned and walked the fence row right beside me. I had ranged the distance and it was exactly 44 yards. The deer was walking up the fence line when it entered in the only small shooting lane I had. I grunted and the deer stopped dead in the lane so I took the shot. This was the best shot to date that I have ever put on a deer. The shockwave entered mid way up the shoulder and went straight though the heart. The deer was only alive 3-4 seconds after the shot and went down in sight. I hurried down out of my stand to go check out the deer and to my surprise it was a spike. I was really hoping to harvest a doe but I guess the spike will taste just as well. Oh and as you can see those shockwaves are simply deadly!!!!

Phade

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!

Rangeball

Congrats on a well placed huge hole!

JZarr

From the looks of the hit and what you said, I' m assuming the deer was quartering towards you when you shot it?

In any case - congrats on the buck! Makes me want to leave work and get back out in the woods.

Kanga

Congrats on the spike.

Sure should make some good eating.

OlMossyHorns

Not to try and " bash" you like many other people have been doing to others lately, but next time try and be positive about the identity of your target. It didn' t mean anything this time, but maybe next time you could make a mistake and shoot a deer that you don' t have a tag for. With that said, great shot, and boy did those shockwaves do the job. Congrats on a nice deer and a great shot.

HANKFAN

JZarr- Actually the spike was broadside when I made the shot and I was shooting slightly down on him which is why the shockwave was able to go through the heart. I still can' t get over that entrance wound in that pic. Simply awesome!!!

OlMossyHorns- I have 3 either sex tags so to be honest I was just trying to harvest a deer for the freezer. With that said though I do try to make it a practice to let the young bucks walk and harvest does if I want some deer meat. I think I might need to start taking my binoculars along with me though just to be safe.

NorthernMN

Congrats. Mmmm... steak.

Doemasters

Congrats on the groceries! What grain are your broadheads? That' s a sho-nuff hole!
Good hunting,
Doemasters

FroMan

Good picture man, congrats on the deer...

And yes...that is a huge hole...put the hurt on the deer, looks like you made a nice clean kill. Congrats again.