Thursday, October 23, 2008

My 8-pointer Sunday evening, Oct 19th...post-death















I shot this 8 pointer tonight at 5:50 pm. He came in at 5:40…made a scrape in front of my game camera, then was eating in my food plot…I drew and was leaning out over my stand to shoot around a limb…top of my bow hit the limb when I released…arrow it the ground about 10 yards in front of him. He jumped like 10 feet, stopped when I grunted and then over the next 10 mins proceed to make 8 more licking branches/scrapes.

When he was 80 yards out in my bigger food plot, I grunted 3 times pretty loud, he turned & looked at me…but proceed to keep eating. Then it looked like he was going to walk off but he turned & came straight at me. At 40 yards, he made another scrape, at 15 yards he was behind a little white pine tree…I drew, he stepped out to his right and I drilled him quartering away lung shot. He ran 50 yards, stopped looked back at me & then fell over!!

I brought him back to the barn, live wait 220lb…dressed out…185lb. Inside spread is 17.5 inches; outside spread is just over 19 inches. Tall tines are just shy of 10 inches.

My 8-pointer on Sunday evening, Oct 19th...pre-death







My 8-pointer prior to Bow Season











Sunday, October 5, 2008

New pics from end of Sept 2008








And some more from Oct 2008






11 pointer feeding on apples





More Oct 2008 Pics


Wide rack 8 pointer



Young 8 pointer...will be nice in a few more years

Nice Pics from early Oct 2008




Wide Rack 8-pointer making a scrape