Extended Bow 2012

    Extended Bow kicked off in 2012 with substantial rut activity.  The day before, the last day of regular bow season, I had an encounter with 2 shooter bucks chasing a hot doe all around me in the woods for over an hour.   I was able to get a pretty good look at both deer but neither provided me with a shot.
The very next morning, October 27 2012, first day of extended bow season just at sun up, I hit the grunt tube with two short grunts and a ten pointer come right into me and provide me with a shot at 27 yds.  After wiating an hour I texted my cousin and we got underway with the recovery.  He went 80 yds.

 Here is a pic of where i found him.

 This buck dressed out at 140 lbs.

I killed My buck on a Saturday.  Friday of that same week, I got a text of a big 10 pointer that had been killed at 3:30  in the afternoon so I made arrangements to do a photo shoot.   From the text I could tell that Drew had killed a substantial buck, but I was blown away upon seeing the deer in person.  Drew had this buck on his trail camera during Hurricane Sandy and quite a few people had seen this Slammer in his area.  After checking an astro table that said peak deer movement would start at 2:19 he made sure he was in the stand by 2:00.   He killed this buck with his compound bow at 3:30 pm.

 Drew's deer dressed in at 190 lbs

 This deer had an official net non typical score of 159 2/8 "

           Next to record a kill was my dad.   He shot this seven pointer quartering away hard with a 125 grain vortex broad head at 40 yards using Stryker 380 crossbow.  The bolt entered just behind the shoulder and exited through the front of the chest.  The buck went a mere 20 yds.  when we field dressed this deer it was completely devoid of blood.

This deer also weighed in at 140 lbs.

       The following morning November tenth, I received a call form a friend whose nephew had killed a nice ten pointer with the bow.   I asked them to bring it by.  Jason's deer dressed in at 145 lbs and had a 20" spread. 

   The Evening of November 13th my phone rang and Muddy called to say he was bring one by.  He killed this eight pointer with a broken g-2 and a kicker with his 10 point crossbow. Muddy's buck dressed 140 lbs. which seemed to be the average weight of the bucks killed in the 2012 season.

Next was GV who downed this wide racked nine pointer on the morning of November 23rd with his compound bow.

This deer had a very unique right antler.

 Gary's buck dressed in at 120 lbs.

The same morning that GV killed his 9 point buck, Dave was able to connect with a wide 7.

    Dave's deer dressed 125 lbs. 

Out of State 2011

          

            November proved to be a good month for out of state hunting trips in 2011.   We had three mature bucks killed, 2 from Ohio and a third from Virginia. 

         
            First to Score in the out of state category was my cousin Joe with this 150 pound eight pointer.   Joe killed his buck during the last 20 minutes of a seven day bow trip to Ohio.  Out of the four guys in his hunting party, Joe was the only hunter to fill his tag.   This deer was harvested on public land with an Excalibur Vortex crossbow outfitted with Spitfire broad heads.  

           On account of nightfall approaching Joe opted to wait until the following morning to recover his deer.  This buck only ran 40 yards before he ran out of blood.

     

         When Joe returned from his trip we took the deer to our local check station to have him weighed   For some reason the deer are not weighed in Ohio.    This deer dressed out at 150 pounds even.

  This big nine pointer was the next deer to be taken and it too is also an Ohio bow season kill. Elmer Killed this 130 class 9 pointer on a bow hunt Wednesday November 9th on  private ground.  Elmer shot this 170 pound buck as it was preparing to cross a stream.   He took a 60 yd shot with his Stryker crossbow hitting the buck in the spine and paralyzing it.   The deer then rolled down the embankment and landed in the stream where Elmer shot him again and then tied him to a fallen tree so as to keep him from floating down river.

 Elmer's buck wieghed in at 170 pounds even.

       Next to make a kill was my cousin Bill with this long tine eight pointer.   Bill took this Virginia buck during a morning hunt on 11-11-11 with his muzzle loader.   

Here is a cell phone pic of the buck as it lay where he shot it.