Saturday, December 21, 2019 – 'Final Special Archery Hunt @’Deer Creek State Park’ – Part II of II:
When I got back to the park and parked my truck at the end of the horse trail on the South side of section two, right where I normally park, I called the wife and while I was on the phone with her, a large adult Doe was standing 10 yards right behind my truck at noon sharp. I watched her for a few seconds through my drivers-side rear-view mirror while I was telling her that I got a deer right behind me. It was like, ‘Hey, I was just at your stand and you weren’t there!’ type of thing. Both the wife and I got a good laugh out of that.
The deer eventually crossed the road, heading South into section three. I got off the phone with wife shortly thereafter and started to get dressed to head back out.
I got settled back into my tree at right at 12:20 p.m.
25 minutes later, a Mother Doe and her little one stepped out into the utility field from the South woods, directly upwind of me, just SW, and headed straight for me.
I watched them cross the stream and I gave them a pass because her little one was ‘TOO’ young and they headed down the main deer path right next to my tree.
About 30 seconds later, three antlerless deer did the same thing, coming from the same area, heading the same direction.
This time, it was a Mother Doe, a little young Button and a decent size Doe.
I decided I was going to take the decent size Doe.
As they slowly made their way over the stream and up the hill, with the Doe I was going take in anchor, Mother Doe and the Button were within 15 yards of me. I already had my bow in my hand at the time and dialed in from the previous encounter. So, as the third decent size Doe crossed the creek and stopped at 25 yards facing me perfectly on the uphill, because that was her intended travel route and I already had my bow ready on the left side of the Oak tree limb within the tree I was sitting in, I released and buried my arrow right into her chest while she was standing there facing me perfectly.
She immediately turned back around a ran like lighting straight back to where she came from, over the stream, back up the side of the West hill and into the South woods.
The entire time to the point to where she went into the woods, I watched blood literally spray 2-4’ out of her body. I knew she wouldn’t go ‘TOO’ far.
Mother Doe and the Button also turned back around even thought they’ve already reached the North woods and headed back to where they originally came from, entering back into the South woods right where the shot Doe went.
A few moments later, Mother Doe and little Button came back out of the South woods and literally headed straight to me again. And I mean, straight to me, like right underneath me to me.
The Mother Doe acted like she was on the ‘war path’ or a mission of some sort, possibly to kick some royal ass, looking around intensely as to who just shot her daughter.
(I captured several cellphone photographs that kind of give a brief timeline that you can view below.)
After few moments of Mother Doe and the little Button being underneath me, not knowing where I was, which was right above them, they headed straight into the North woods and eventually out of sight.
I immediately started to pack things up after they left the area.
I climbed down right 1:00 p.m., packed up my ‘Lone Wolf Alpha’ stand, including my huntin stuff, threw them both over my shoulders and grabbed my bow, heading straight for the deer that I just shot.
Along the way, I made a cellphone video clip of my blood tracking for anyone who might be interested in seeing just how devastating that shot was to that deer. Within that video, you’ll get to see my arrow that stuck in the ground upside-down, missing the broad head.
I estimate the recover was roughly 60-70 yards from the point of impact. That’s up and down a single small hill.
After I found her, I walked to my truck, changed out of my good huntin clothes and peeled down to a single layer, grabbed my field dressing pack and toboggan sled, then headed back to the dead deer to get her taken care of. By that time, it was 1:25 p.m., the temperature was 44 degrees and getting warmer by the minute.
While I started to dress her out, the first thing I did after I cut her open, was to find my broad head, which I did.
The arrow passed through part of her heart, tore up both lungs and stuck about a ½” into her large liver.
That’s some serious deep penetration for going straight through the front of her.
After I got her dressed out, I hauled her back to the truck using my toboggan sled and up into the bed of the truck.
At that time, it was 2:15 p.m., and I immediately called DOW to get my conformation number, then grabbed a bottle of water to get cooled off, smoked a couple of cigarettes and decided to head back out. I still have a Buck tag...
This time, I dressed lightly, just my jacket, hat, thin gloves, my Mucks and a pair of sweatpants.
I took off for the same tree that I shot the deer from.
Once I got there, I cleared debris & leaves away from the base of the tree and sat down on the ground with my bow laying right next to me, ready to kill any decent size Buck at 3:20 p.m.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see any more deer the rest of day.
So, today, I seen approximately 17 antlerless deer with 13 of them within bow range. Not bad for my last hunt at the park.
So, this hunt concludes my ‘Deer Creek State Park Special Archery Hunt’, which I can tell you, I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it!
I ended up shooting 3 antlerless deer and only recovered two, but I can tell you that I gave it my best to recover all of them. I also seen a couple of good Bucks over the past two weeks.
I’ll update my ‘Week in Review’ hunt data report of mine in a few days, which I’ll break out the ‘Deer Creek State Park Special Archery Hunt’.
Tomorrow, I’ll be using the good old shotgun near my home looking for a good Buck to harvest.
When I got back to the park and parked my truck at the end of the horse trail on the South side of section two, right where I normally park, I called the wife and while I was on the phone with her, a large adult Doe was standing 10 yards right behind my truck at noon sharp. I watched her for a few seconds through my drivers-side rear-view mirror while I was telling her that I got a deer right behind me. It was like, ‘Hey, I was just at your stand and you weren’t there!’ type of thing. Both the wife and I got a good laugh out of that.
The deer eventually crossed the road, heading South into section three. I got off the phone with wife shortly thereafter and started to get dressed to head back out.
I got settled back into my tree at right at 12:20 p.m.
25 minutes later, a Mother Doe and her little one stepped out into the utility field from the South woods, directly upwind of me, just SW, and headed straight for me.
I watched them cross the stream and I gave them a pass because her little one was ‘TOO’ young and they headed down the main deer path right next to my tree.
About 30 seconds later, three antlerless deer did the same thing, coming from the same area, heading the same direction.
This time, it was a Mother Doe, a little young Button and a decent size Doe.
I decided I was going to take the decent size Doe.
As they slowly made their way over the stream and up the hill, with the Doe I was going take in anchor, Mother Doe and the Button were within 15 yards of me. I already had my bow in my hand at the time and dialed in from the previous encounter. So, as the third decent size Doe crossed the creek and stopped at 25 yards facing me perfectly on the uphill, because that was her intended travel route and I already had my bow ready on the left side of the Oak tree limb within the tree I was sitting in, I released and buried my arrow right into her chest while she was standing there facing me perfectly.
She immediately turned back around a ran like lighting straight back to where she came from, over the stream, back up the side of the West hill and into the South woods.
The entire time to the point to where she went into the woods, I watched blood literally spray 2-4’ out of her body. I knew she wouldn’t go ‘TOO’ far.
Mother Doe and the Button also turned back around even thought they’ve already reached the North woods and headed back to where they originally came from, entering back into the South woods right where the shot Doe went.
A few moments later, Mother Doe and little Button came back out of the South woods and literally headed straight to me again. And I mean, straight to me, like right underneath me to me.
The Mother Doe acted like she was on the ‘war path’ or a mission of some sort, possibly to kick some royal ass, looking around intensely as to who just shot her daughter.
(I captured several cellphone photographs that kind of give a brief timeline that you can view below.)
After few moments of Mother Doe and the little Button being underneath me, not knowing where I was, which was right above them, they headed straight into the North woods and eventually out of sight.
I immediately started to pack things up after they left the area.
I climbed down right 1:00 p.m., packed up my ‘Lone Wolf Alpha’ stand, including my huntin stuff, threw them both over my shoulders and grabbed my bow, heading straight for the deer that I just shot.
Along the way, I made a cellphone video clip of my blood tracking for anyone who might be interested in seeing just how devastating that shot was to that deer. Within that video, you’ll get to see my arrow that stuck in the ground upside-down, missing the broad head.
I estimate the recover was roughly 60-70 yards from the point of impact. That’s up and down a single small hill.
After I found her, I walked to my truck, changed out of my good huntin clothes and peeled down to a single layer, grabbed my field dressing pack and toboggan sled, then headed back to the dead deer to get her taken care of. By that time, it was 1:25 p.m., the temperature was 44 degrees and getting warmer by the minute.
While I started to dress her out, the first thing I did after I cut her open, was to find my broad head, which I did.
The arrow passed through part of her heart, tore up both lungs and stuck about a ½” into her large liver.
That’s some serious deep penetration for going straight through the front of her.
After I got her dressed out, I hauled her back to the truck using my toboggan sled and up into the bed of the truck.
At that time, it was 2:15 p.m., and I immediately called DOW to get my conformation number, then grabbed a bottle of water to get cooled off, smoked a couple of cigarettes and decided to head back out. I still have a Buck tag...
This time, I dressed lightly, just my jacket, hat, thin gloves, my Mucks and a pair of sweatpants.
I took off for the same tree that I shot the deer from.
Once I got there, I cleared debris & leaves away from the base of the tree and sat down on the ground with my bow laying right next to me, ready to kill any decent size Buck at 3:20 p.m.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see any more deer the rest of day.
So, today, I seen approximately 17 antlerless deer with 13 of them within bow range. Not bad for my last hunt at the park.
So, this hunt concludes my ‘Deer Creek State Park Special Archery Hunt’, which I can tell you, I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it!
I ended up shooting 3 antlerless deer and only recovered two, but I can tell you that I gave it my best to recover all of them. I also seen a couple of good Bucks over the past two weeks.
I’ll update my ‘Week in Review’ hunt data report of mine in a few days, which I’ll break out the ‘Deer Creek State Park Special Archery Hunt’.
Tomorrow, I’ll be using the good old shotgun near my home looking for a good Buck to harvest.
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I love to hunt but hunting that hard for that long would no doubt burn me out.
