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No idea on plans...hitting Ohio for a week in November for bow.

Kinda empty feeling...especially after that other buck stood in the exact same spot and I was able to see that rack wise it was 160s...d'oh! One in the hand...beats two in the bush I guess!

Buck had double triple brow tines at one point, but broke one side off...the other side is still there...triple brow tines petty neat.

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I posted this in another thread, but I figured it can't hurt to add it to the official Bow Hunting harvest thread. Yesterday morning I realized one of the biggest lessons ... preparation pays off. La

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Picture. His attention was turned towards another deer...thought it was a doe. Turned out that one was my #1 target...I about cried. Was a solid 160 class typical frame. This guy had nothing on him r

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About all I got...had to cape it in the field...long long night.

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Well opening day has come and gone. I had a 14 yd shot at a spike this morning which i passed on. This afternoon i had 2 4 pts and 4 doe with fawns come within range but no shots presented. Got it all on video too. Had a 23 yd shot at a nice sized doe but there was a friggin branch right in my view when i stood up. I was pissed at myself for not clearing that branch yesterday. My bro saw nothing except for a bobcat in the woods. I saw lots of action and even some chasing believe it or not. One more chance tomorrow morning.

Was the bobcat in Germantown as well?

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I posted this in another thread, but I figured it can't hurt to add it to the official Bow Hunting harvest thread.

Yesterday morning I realized one of the biggest lessons ... preparation pays off. Last year I spent countless days in the woods without even seeing a deer. I did no pre scouting and in turn, spent many an hour sitting against a tree just 'hoping' a deer would wander by. I made sure I had things in order this year. Working to gain access to some private land, putting trail cameras out, scouting for deer trail/sign, and practicing every single night with my bow. This morning it all paid off.

Was hunting a small piece of semi-private land in Rockland county this morning. I was about 3/4 of the way up a hill, working the edge of a hedgerow where the deer had worn a trail through. The trail cameras gave me a good idea how many deer were coming through. At 8 a.m. I started to hear some activity off to my left in the hedgerow. I had been waiting there since 5:30, trying to catch them coming out of their bedding area. A four point buck stepped out along the deer path and began working his way to my stand.

He stepped out, I gave a quick grunt to stop him and let the arrow go. He had just started to turn towards me when I shot, so what I thought was a perfect broadside shot, turned in to a quartering-towards shot. Arrow hit right behind his front leg, right on my mark, and exited out his side, taking the liver on the way out. He ran for about a 100 yards and I heard the big crash. When I recovered him I was afraid the arrow had exited too far back, but there was no gut whatsoever in the cavity.

Certainly not a trophy class buck, but it's my first bow kill and my first buck!

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