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6 point. Maybe 120 dressed out. Perfect heart shot, in one side out the other and never touched a bone. As usual for my stand it was about a 13 yard shot with the Accura V2 and a Barnes XPB. Top of the heart is a mess and he went maybe 15-18 yards before tipping over.
The season started out a real *****, with unusually high heat [upper 60s to lower 70s] and a persistent south wind with sustained 25 to 35 mph rates and gusts much higher. Between the wind and the heat the deer were just laid down and not moving at all in spite of it being pretty close to the top of the rut. This afternoon I hit the stand at about 1:30 because we were forecast to see a major weather shift and much cooler temps with some light rain along about the end of shooting light and I wanted to take advantage of the shift. At 3 I checked the weather and the front was about 40 miles away. At 3:30 that south wind just stopped. Like right now. The sky was blacker than sin and then the NW wind got teeth and blew like crazy for about 5 minutes then the sideways rain started...hard rain at that.
I was soaked in about two minutes so I got out of the stand and made for the van. Half way down this mountain I hunt on the wind quit again, the skies lightened up a bit and the rain went to light drizzle so I turned around and scaled that sucker of mud and went back to the stand. The temp had given up about 30 degrees in this time. As I made the final approach to the stand's ladder I saw this buck standing at the small water hole that's there by the food plot. He was looking straight away from me so I took my shot.
Not the biggest buck but it will be a fine eater with zero meat lost to bullet damage. I love those thru and thru heart shots.
The season started out a real *****, with unusually high heat [upper 60s to lower 70s] and a persistent south wind with sustained 25 to 35 mph rates and gusts much higher. Between the wind and the heat the deer were just laid down and not moving at all in spite of it being pretty close to the top of the rut. This afternoon I hit the stand at about 1:30 because we were forecast to see a major weather shift and much cooler temps with some light rain along about the end of shooting light and I wanted to take advantage of the shift. At 3 I checked the weather and the front was about 40 miles away. At 3:30 that south wind just stopped. Like right now. The sky was blacker than sin and then the NW wind got teeth and blew like crazy for about 5 minutes then the sideways rain started...hard rain at that.
I was soaked in about two minutes so I got out of the stand and made for the van. Half way down this mountain I hunt on the wind quit again, the skies lightened up a bit and the rain went to light drizzle so I turned around and scaled that sucker of mud and went back to the stand. The temp had given up about 30 degrees in this time. As I made the final approach to the stand's ladder I saw this buck standing at the small water hole that's there by the food plot. He was looking straight away from me so I took my shot.
Not the biggest buck but it will be a fine eater with zero meat lost to bullet damage. I love those thru and thru heart shots.