First Deer Ever

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SW Ontario, So close to Hell I can feel the HEAT
I shot my first deer last evening. What a rush.
Spike buck. Hey it is my first.....
Excalibur ExoMAG carbon arrows and 100gr wasp head
double lung aorta pass through.
18 m shot. Ran 25 m or so.
skin is off and he is hanging in my garage.


LONG STORY
Stalked around and determined where they would be comming from. Set up my tree stand around 4pm. Sitting in silence till 5:30pm. Started to grunt and let a couple of doe in heat bleats every 20 mins or so. 6:40 and they come out of the corn like they were on que.
My heart was pumping so hard I thought I was gonna die!
Picked the deer I wanted, waited, waited. MAN was I shaking!
Couple of deep breaths, and THWANK.
I knew it was a good hit 'cuz I could see the spray of BRIGHT red on the corn from in my stand.
I was schocked to see that the others stayed around. Some even licked the blood off the corn stalks....weird. I could have taken them all.
I wanted to wait longer to make sure he was dead, but the sun was going down so I climbed down to start following the blood trail.
I was not hard...LOTS of blood. Found my arrow at the site of impact...clean through and through, a little high on the right side (close to the spine) ...but my stand was quite high so the arrow exited low on the left...out through the leg/shoulder.
Good thing there was a lot of blood 'cuz he went straight into 4 foot tall weeds, and the sun was set. Scared I was going to lose him, but the blood trail lead right to him. I mean I nearly tripped over him.

While cutting out the guts one of the deer (yearling doe) came back for a closer look...now it was 4 foot hight weeds in the twilight but I could hear and see her. I had to yell twice to chase her off.
He did not make it 30 steps from that spot he was arrowed to where he died. A clean kill, good.

While skinning I found lots of 'blood shot' meat, due to subcutaneus emphasema. most of the left shoulder is wasted, damn.

Can't wait to go out and do it all over again though.

I want to trade the hide in to hats-for-hides but my son wants to keep it for a blanket on his bed......he is real proud of his dad.

Pics soon.
 
Good for you it's a blast to get your first one and the hardest.My 2 yr old has been shooting "moose" with his popgun since I showed him the moosehead in my truck a few days ago. :lol:
 
While skinning I found lots of 'blood shot' meat,
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If you soak it in cold water for two days that should clean up very well. Just put it in a pot in the fridge and change the water a couple of times per day.

Congrats.
 
Congratz

When you start flinging arrows at things a the rules change for a while a spike can be a trophy, you may not mount the head but it still counts, a hide for the bed sounds cool.

I am just getting back into archery hunting this year and with any luck i'll be posting a success story too in the next few weeks, if I have to guess mine will be a mule deer doe. I'll shoot a buck if it comes by but realistically i'll shoot the first thing that gives me a shot just to get back in the swing.
 
Very glad for you. I remember that pounding of the heart the first time one walked into my killing ground.

The sad part is, you may never again taste any meat as good as the first one you took yourself.
 
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