How my day and hunt began. I went to bed early the night before cuz 3 days of long days in stand and little sleep I was wore out. Woke up at 5:00am and showered and headed to farm. Decided to hunt the funnel in middle of farm hoping to catch one of the target bucks cruising through looking for a hot doe. The only target buck on camera recently was the high and tight 6x5 with small drop. It was at 9:45 the night before and he was alone. I was in stand after a noisy entrance before shooting light. I texted a few groups then sat there with a perfect ESE wind for almost an hour. I was hoping something would happen soon cuz the sun was 15-20 minutes from breaching the horizon through the woods to the east and once that happens you know how difficult it is to look into the sun but you feel exposed somewhat when you need to move. Anywho, I no longer was thinking that I heard something walking in the leaves getting louder so I looked into the thicket on the flat just in front of me and saw the 6x5 walking steadily on a mission and was already through one shooting lane and about to hit a rather wide final window out at about 25 yards in 10-12 seconds. Luckily I had my xbow laying across my lap resting the limbs on my shooting rail so picking it up and getting in shooting position and clicking off the safety was in one quick, quiet swift motion. I had the crosshairs in beginning of the window waiting to follow him once he entered it. Found the crease and touched off the trigger as he hit middle of window and heard that tell tale thud and he bolted forward and ran 30 yards on out and stopped for like 5 minutes. I grabbed my binos and saw where I hit him and then grabbed my phone and video’d him the 30 to 40 yard slow walk to his first bed. He laid there for 5 minutes got up moved 10 yards and laid back down and died 10 minutes later IMO. He laid motionless and I texted a few groups letting them know the status. I had a doe bed down above me for 45 minutes and she caught me moving and started blowing and he never moved so I knew he was probably dead. I slipped out went up and found my bolt and could see him not moving and walked up to him.
The end.
Thankful for my great buddies at the CH for coming to help me get him out of that mess so I could rush him to processor’s as temps were rising very quickly. We had to cut logs, our fence and brush to get to him and the bank was long and steep.
