I first saw and shot this buck on October 8 of this year. He came into a feeder about 9:30 in the morning and I hit him above the spine on a 25 yard shot. I got a bloody arrow but no deer. On October 14, I saw this buck walking a fence line about 300 yards from where I shot him the week before, and I promptly placed a second stand in that fence row about 150 yards from another stand I had placed last year. Fast forward, I have hunted many hours since 10-14 and never saw this buck again until this morning about 7 AM. He came in behind me on a calm wind and sensed something wrong but couldn't place the source of his uneasiness. He circled around behind me and appearred on my right side and since I am a lefty that is the place to be. He was starting to get jumpy when I put a G5 Tekan from my old Darton right behind his ribs. I hit him further back than I wanted and I gave him an hour to expire before I went to look for him. No blood, no arrow, no deer until almost 8 hours of looking, I finally found him in a nasty thicket on the adjoining property. He had covered about four hundred yards of the nastiest briers, blackberry canes , and thickets before dying in a small pocket of trees. With the shot far back, the mast from his system clogged up the holes resulting in no blood trail. I was glad to finally find him. He is a great buck for a bow in SE Oklahoma. This is my second buck with a bow this season and I killed a buck with a ML that scored 132 so I am tagged out before gun season even starts for the first time in my life. Three bucks is all you get in OK. This buck rough scored 129 with a 23" inside spread. I was blessed this year.
