cjack
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Headed out on my annual pilgrimage to Southern Colorado for some archery deer hunting. It was about 8:30am on day 2 and all of the deer activity had seemingly slowed down as all of the whitetail doe's and the few rutting bucks that had been chasing them around the field all morning had left. Out of the corner of my eye I see a lone whitetail doe return to the field about 50 yards from me. 20yds into the field she stops and freezes in a steady stare, looking directly behind me. I peer out the back window of my Muddy blind and 10yds behind me I see six or seven mule deer doe's making their way to the field and up the trail that runs right past my blind. I nervously connected my release not yet knowing if there was a buck with them or not. As they filed past me the eighth deer that walks by is definitely a shooter buck, I didn't know at that moment how big he was I only knew it was the one I wanted. As he walked past at a steady pace I drew back and stopped him with a "meh" sound, he turns and looks at me from 15yds away and I bury my arrow in him, he was quartering away and the shot looked like it was a little back but a solid hit none the less. He tore off into the field following the doe's and ran around a corner and out of site. My first thought was that they had left the field for safe cover and that I would have to give him some time before tracking him. It wasn't but about one minute later when all of the doe's jumped back into the field over a barb wire fence and he wasn't with them. As they milled around looking confused I look back to the corner of the field where he had disappeared and he comes stumbling back into the field, wobbled and circled in place for a second the dropped just 60yds from me. I did catch a little gut but the arrow found his lungs on the quartering away shot. Couldn't be happier with my best mule deer to date. This is the same blind that I shot a 13 point whitetail from in 2023. You can see him in the second picture on the ground as the doe's looked on.
