October 8th

What a night! Walking in at 3:30 pm a tractor was plowing the field that is next to the field that butts up my my timber that I hunt. While walking in there was 4 does running across the field away from my stand. Then I noticed 2 does running towards my stand just to the south of it. I rushed into my stand to jump a doe that was bedded about 10 yards from my stand. The weather temp was 80 degrees and I did not think that hunting would be that great in the heat. After I got settled into my stand I did not see anything until around 5:45 pm. A nice doe came up to withing my shooting range. She walked the river and jumped up the hill where she was 23 yards away from my stand. I started to draw back my bow when my loop on my bow broke at half draw. My arrow went flying up in the trees and the doe took off. The next thing I see was a yearling doe creeping up trying to find out what just happened. At that point I drew back from the string and shot the yearling right in the boiler room. I dropped her right in her tracks at 25 yards. That is my first deer of the year and hope many more to come! Here are my pics of the sting loop and my doe!