Who's had 2 shots (with a crossbow) at a deer ?
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- ninepointer
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Who's had 2 shots (with a crossbow) at a deer ?
After missing clean on my first shot , this doe from last fall stuck around to let me re-cock and shoot again. Who else has been so lucky?
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Ill admit it..When I first started hunting(with a compound vert bow)I missed 2 times on the same doe..I thought it was at 30 yards,so i shot and hit high..clean miss....she spooked..but came back to the same spot..this time i aimed 25 yards and clean miss again!!..she took off flying through the woods....But now i got my trusty rangefinder to help me judge distances
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Me....sort of.
Last fall I shot a doe from my treestand. While tracking it stumbled across 2 more does that were crossing a creek infront of us. Shot high at the first one giving it a little haircut on the back. It wandered off unscathed. Reloaded and shot the second one double lung. By the end of the day we recovered the first doe I shot from my treestand and the second one.
Dave
Last fall I shot a doe from my treestand. While tracking it stumbled across 2 more does that were crossing a creek infront of us. Shot high at the first one giving it a little haircut on the back. It wandered off unscathed. Reloaded and shot the second one double lung. By the end of the day we recovered the first doe I shot from my treestand and the second one.
Dave
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Me too, I taken many where I may have missed the 1st shot and reloaded and taken a 2nd. But I have taken a good many 2nd and 3rd and some 4th shots to load up on deer in one day. When I was getting paid for shooting deer I dropped 18 in 4 days. I kept running out of arrows and had to climb down to retrieve ones I shot.
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Second Shots!
Second morning of bow season 2008 grazed the rail on my first shot. Never did find my arrow. It's probably in the next county! Deer came back head on. I drilled it in the neck and threaded the body. Recovered it quickly. I am now calling this "forbidden" shot the MNR shot (Manitoulin Rectal Shot) because it was the opposite of a Texas Heart Shot! For the full story and picture see the
trophy thread of last year.
MJS
P.S.
How about a thread on "forbidden shots" we have taken?
trophy thread of last year.
MJS
P.S.
How about a thread on "forbidden shots" we have taken?
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I'll say! I once had a buck totally confused by a miss, I managed to draw my crossbow while he was looking the other way, but he sure pegged me on the "click"!bstout wrote:Its harder to mask the noise that the trigger claw assembly makes while cocking (click) that seems to bother them more than the bow itself going off.
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Same here. Had a second chance a Big Doe, but the "click" gave me up, and she bolted, along with her friends.
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Guilty. Had a buck and a doe walking down a trail toward my tree stand. They stopped and turned off the trail at 30 yards. i shot at the trailing doe, hit a branch and just missed her under her chest. Bolt stuck in a tree. I knew they hadn't been too spooked and hadn't gone far so I recocked in the stand and gave a couple of soft grnts. Saw the back winding his way back toward me. Waited until twelve yards then took the shot and got him - single lung 250 yard recovery. Learned allot of lessons that afternoon
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So far 7 shots at deer and 7 dead deer..
I did miss a jake once at a LONG 30 and he never stuck aroubnd to let me recock..
I did miss a jake once at a LONG 30 and he never stuck aroubnd to let me recock..
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