Opening Evening doe

[jh45gun]

 I shot this one opening evening with my Excaliber Crossbow . I had to leave it over night as I got a bad hit. I had always heard of those quartering away shots never tried one and she had here back to me. She started to turn I felt it was enough so I let fly. Hit her back too far so let her go over night. I guess she was still two straight. I will let the next one turn more of a angle to me. Oh well live and learn I usually aways take broadside shots and get them this was the first time I attempted a quartering shot. It was not an issue recovering the deer she only went about a 100 yards the big thing was to leave her alone so she would lay down close. Only bummer was something got to her over night and chewed alway part of the hindquarter. Just one the other was intact as was the rest of the deer. My friend thought it may have been a Bobcat. What ever it was it chewed half the hindquarter off in a straight line. I think if ya put a ruler across it would have showed straight. Never seen anything like that before. He thougth a wolf or coyote would have ate more and made more of a mess than what this was. Does that sound like a cat to any of you guys. Fisher maybe if not a cat?

[markc]

Congrats on the doe.   Archery season here begins in 12 days or so, but can't use the X-bow until November. 

[rickyp]

out first day was yesterday and i went out and the only deer I saw was when I was coming back to my truck in the evening and he was standing about 10 feet in front of my truck

[jh45gun]

out first day was yesterday and i went out and the only deer I saw was when I was coming back to my truck in the evening and he was standing about 10 feet in front of my truck

Yea thats the way it goes some times. Good luck

[Digger]

Congrats on your doe Jim, sure hope it wasn't the scope that thru your shot off.

[Redhawk1]

jh45gun, congrats on you doe, I got one with my crossbow last week also. That makes two for me so far this year. i got my first one opening day with my bow and this one last wek with my crossbow. I shoot a Horton. Again congrats.

[rickyp]

out first day was yesterday and i went out and the only deer I saw was when I was coming back to my truck in the evening and he was standing about 10 feet in front of my truck

Yea thats the way it goes some times. Good luck

I am going out this afternoon and I have my ground blind in the truck and I am going to set up just inside of the corn field close to my truck.

[jh45gun]

Congrats on your doe Jim, sure hope it wasn't the scope that thru your shot off.

Na Digger the scope works fine. I shot some broadheads tonite before I went out again and I was hitting dead on at 23 yards but one and a half inches high after I did some tweaking with the settings as I changed broadheads the others I was using had a tendency to come loose and apart. I shot the deer with the broadheads I am using now. They shoot well they are a copy of a thunderhead. The others I were using were 4 blade that tended to loosen up. No I could have pulled the shot a bit that is what I am thinking. For those critics who claim a crossbow is so easy I shot at a doe tonite and missed it because I hit a evergreen branch on the way to the deer. Arrow was going perfect until it hit the branch. So even with a scope sometimes them branches you do not see.  Doug I am very happy with the scope. It gathers light very well too.

[smokepolehall]

Little late on this forum, congrats on the fine eating nanny!

[jh45gun]

Thanks Finances and the Weather has screwed up this month had some extra things to pay and and an unexpected trip so that took care of some of my gas money for hunting. Will have to get out more the first part of Nov and try to get an other. We have had the rainiest Oct on record this month so that did not help things either. looking forward to getting out some more.

[smokepolehall]

Hey i knowed about that!