I'm not from a hunting family, and had just started this adventure this fall. I'm very pleased to have some venison in the freezer so soon.
Headed out right after work today in a steady rain, sat in my blind and got a nice broadside shot at one of two does coming to the bait. Took aim at the bigger of the two and TWACK she gave a small mule kick and ran uphill to the north. With the impending dark and rain I stalked out to the point of impact after about 10 minutes. I hadn't even got there yet when I saw a doe in the woods to the north. I watched her for about 10 minutes she didn't seem to have a care in the world and was just nibbling at some grass. I couldn't tell if it was the one I'd taken aim at or not. I stalked a bit closer starting to doubt my memory of seeing the arrow hit the deer. I even shouldered the bow again and had a nice broadside but didn't want to shoot as I had no idea what happened, turns out this was the smaller doe. As I saw the doe I'd shot piled up about 20 yards from POI.
Just as I was starting the drag my husband got there. Turns out the best thing to drag a deer is a husband
. Took her to the truck so we had some light for field dressing. He did an awesome job while I mostly held the light and kept stuff out of the way (his first deer dressing as well as mine so it was nice to have both of us there to do it). Got her home and hung in the shed about 3 hours after taking the shot. Seems like a good Saturday evening.Turns out my shot was right through the heart, worryingly all the blood stayed inside her as I never saw any blood at all. Used the illuminated diabolos with a boltcutter, may have to switch up my gear a bit. I'm loving the matrix 380 though. Never found my arrow going back tomorrow for a bit of a search I guess. One of the vanes came off inside the heart.
Now it's time to go after a buck I think.
