This hunt actually started Thursday night, I was hunting some red oaks along an overgrown field. At 5:00 I seen antlers move about 50 yards away. This buck worked his way to the large red oak in front of me. At 24 yards I put my 20 yard pin center mass and touched off the release. I heard the smack and the buck took off, I was able to follow him for about 50 yards before he disappeared into the thick stuff. I waited an hour and then got down to examine my arrow. My arrow was bloody from end to end so I started tracking, I found one spot of blood 10 yards away and that was it. I searched for almost an hour doing grids until I found one more blood spot. Connecting the only 2 blood spots I was able to tell which direction he was heading and preceded to the logging road that cut across the woods, once on the logging road I walked up and down it and found another spot of blood, then the blood trail opened up and I was able to easily follow it about 20 yards, It lead into some thick briars and I was tracking on my hands and knees when all of a sudden the buck jumps up 5 yards in front of me and hauls butt. I found where he had bedded and there was a pool of blood, I decided to back out and wait until today to pick up the trail.
We had rain all night and I had to work today so I did not get back to the woods until 3:00 this afternoon. I knew the direction he had headed and walked in that general direction, I found him after only 5 minutes, he was laying 75 yards from where I bumped him. Total distance traveled was (by GPS) 148 yards from POI to bedded area, 75 yards after jumping to recovery.
He is a typical 8 with a 20.25 inch spread. He was taken with a Mathews Drenalin vert bow and is my best vert bow deer to date.
The thing that amazes me is how this deer got up and ran after laying for over 2 hours, the hole in his chest is the entrance of the Muzzy 4 blade, it exited directly across his chest. Upon field dressing the arrow had passed through both lungs (forward/lower portion). I will score this as my Team VA buck. I believe this is the same buck I posted in July (picture 3).
Rich
Nice buck and excellent tracking job . . .now go down and get CF's buck. 
