…A miss that is.
I worked at my research site all day and had a couple hours at the tail end of the day to climb a tree. Found the biggest concentration of white oaks on the entire 700 acres and got skinnied up the tree by 3:00 p.m.
I had barely sat an hour when I saw a doe coming in to feed. She meandered around between 35-50 yards for 5 minutes before I tried bleating like a fawn to try and draw her close enough for a shot. It worked like a charm and after a couple tense minutes of her cautiously advancing past my climbing stand location, I had a clean 15 yard quartering away shot.
You might remember that I spined the buck I shot last weekend in North Carolina at almost the exact same distance. Compensating to what I figured would be a dead center punch, I put the sight pin on her hairline in tight to the shoulder and pulled the trigger on my release. What do you know it…that’s exactly where my arrow flew. One blade had hair and some blood on it, the other was clean. I watched her bounce off and then just meander on down the ridge picking up water oak acorns. None the worse for wear.
So, I couldn’t keep my hot streak going with archery gear but I am thankful that my miss occurred here in Alabama and not in Kansas next week. Hopefully that will get that out of my system and I can refocus a possible shot at the biggest buck of my life next week.
Just telling the season like it is…good, bad, ugly. Hope everyone has a good weekend hunting. I’m headed out to Tuskegee National Forest in the morning for my final go-round of the Alabama archery season.
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