Been hunting about 39 years and have a few good wall hangers to speak of but none with a Bow, which I bought about 4 years ago and tried my hand at arrow slinging. Bow is a Hoyt, 70 lbs., Easton Axis arrows with 100 gr. Muzzys and a single pin Trophy Ridge set for 20 yards. Well Sat. at about 15:50 hours I decided to check out a property that I got permission to hunt, but only scouted once before. Make a long story short I crossed 400 yards of open green grass field and approached the timber. Here comes a doe, being chased by my buck. She puts the brakes on at 15 yards and starts giving me the stink eye. I dropped down to both knees and tried to get small. I got a 5 sec look at the big buck but he was out of my sight. All of a sudden a spike comes in behind the doe. The big boy saw that and didn't like it and came charging out of the thicket and stopped right in front of me broadside at about 25 yards. He was behind a large split tree with only the rear half from the shoulder back visible. I came to full draw and put the pin as close to behind the shoulder as I could without hitting the tree and let it go at 16:15 hours. Total hunt was about 20 min. One big smack and bit of tracking and it was buck in the truck. Luck was truely on my side. On the scales at 180 lbs, raw scored by my taxidermist at 140 3/8ths. Going to be hard to top this one, very hard.
