Big Missouri 10pt
Put an arrow through this fella on the second day of our annual Missouri bow hunt. With a forecast of 75+ degrees and 20mph winds for the first half of the week, we werent expecting much action, but......
Sunday morning started with a few does and smaller scrub bucks filtering through throughout the morning, and then about 9:15 a nice shooter 8 and a smaller 8 run one hot doe through the cedar thicket and right on by my stand at 20 yards. I drew back, but nothing short of a miracle would have stopped either one of those bucks for a shot. After that it was like someone turned on the hot and ready Krispy Kreme sign , 4-5 different smaller bucks filtered through over the next 45 mins or so trailing that does scent. The wind started picking up and the ladderstand was starting to sway in the little tiny tree I was in. I decided to sit as long as the wind would let me since I was seeing deer every 10 mins or so. By this time the wind is howling and you could hardly hear anything until it was right on top of you. About 10am I looked back over my left shoulder and this guy is just walking down an old fence line at 40 yards and closing fast. Immediately I knew he was a shooter, and in what seemed like one constant movement, I grabbed my bow off of the hanger, came to full draw, and MANKED at him as he hit the only clear gap I had directly to my left at 25 yards. Well he took one step past that gap and stopped and looked my way. There was a tangle of naked cedar limbs about 3' infront of him, but it was now or never. I saw a hole, and somehow threaded the needle. Drilled him. He dropped down and slammed right into the fence, hanging him self there for a good 10 seconds. He thrashed around and finally broke free of the fence and ran smack into a tree as hard as he could and then disappeared behind a little green briar patch. I got down, went to the fence and found my arrow, covered in blood along with a good bloodtrail. I backed out and went back to the truck and waited on my other two buddies to get there before going after him. We picked up the blood trail and found him just past where I lost sight of him, only about 35 yards from the fence and maybe 40 yards from where he was standing when the arrow hit him. Nice heavy 10pt with a small kicker off of one of his bases. Rough scored him at 149. He's pretty dang symmetrical and should net mid 140s. He weighed 160lbs field dressed.
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