richhodg66
11-20-2016, 03:15 PM
My second year with the crossbow since Kansas legalized them during archery season. I've been spending every Saturday or Sunday on stand all day for the past months or so thinking the rut would bring a good one by, but have had a parade of two year old dinks every time, hardly any does even.
Last night was better. Had this guy come in at dusk. Not huge, but no dink either. Unfortunately, I hit him with the first arrow poorly, threw the shot high and slightly right on a broadside shot with broke his spine. He managed to crawl way down into a deep, rocky ravine that was stacked up with big cedar trees that had blown down in one of our storms. Needles to say, it was very difficult in the dark and thick stuff to shoot hi again, and I shot him twice more through the chest which finished him.
Message to everybody, work with whatever you're using until you're sure of it in any condition. I haven't practiced as much as I should with this crossbow, and never did it from an elevated platform to see how it affects trajectory. Could be I pulled the shot, but it didn't feel like it, and I think the high hit was a result of the downward angle.
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Last night was better. Had this guy come in at dusk. Not huge, but no dink either. Unfortunately, I hit him with the first arrow poorly, threw the shot high and slightly right on a broadside shot with broke his spine. He managed to crawl way down into a deep, rocky ravine that was stacked up with big cedar trees that had blown down in one of our storms. Needles to say, it was very difficult in the dark and thick stuff to shoot hi again, and I shot him twice more through the chest which finished him.
Message to everybody, work with whatever you're using until you're sure of it in any condition. I haven't practiced as much as I should with this crossbow, and never did it from an elevated platform to see how it affects trajectory. Could be I pulled the shot, but it didn't feel like it, and I think the high hit was a result of the downward angle.
181049